8-letter words containing g, e, i, s
- steering — Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip: He got a good steer about finding the right job.
- stemming — Skiing. the act or instance of a skier pushing the heel of one or both skis outward so that the heels are far apart, as in making certain turns or slowing down.
- stepping — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- sterling — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- stillage — a low platform on which goods are stored in a warehouse or factory to keep them off the floor, to aid in handling, etc. Compare skid (def 3).
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- strigine — of or like an owl
- strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
- stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
- stringer — a person or thing that strings.
- svengali — a person who completely dominates another, usually with selfish or sinister motives.
- sweating — the act or process of sweating
- sweeping — of wide range or scope.
- sweeting — a sweet variety of apple.
- swelling — the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.
- swingers — a person or thing that swings.
- synergic — the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
- synergid — one of two small cells that lie inside the embryo sac of a flowering plant and nourish the ovum.
- syringes — a small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.
- thesiger — Wilfred (Patrick). 1910–2003, British writer, who explored the Empty Quarter of Arabia (1945–50) and lived with the Iraqi marsh Arabs (1950–58). His books include Arabian Sands (1958), The Marsh Arabs (1964), and My Kenya Days (1994)
- thingies — Facetious. any small item whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- tigerism — an arrogant and showy manner
- toughies — a tough person, especially one who is belligerent.
- twigless — having no twigs
- twigsome — covered with twigs
- ugliness — very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- unseeing — the act of a person who sees.
- unsigned — a token; indication.
- unsinged — to burn superficially or slightly; scorch.
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- veganism — a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- vegetist — a vegetable cultivator or enthusiast
- vestigia — a vestigial structure of any kind; vestige.
- villages — The, a city in central Oklahoma.
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- weavings — Plural form of weaving.
- weddings — Plural form of wedding.
- wegotism — (colloquial, dated) Excessive use of the pronoun 'we'.
- weigelas — Plural form of weigela.
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- weldings — Plural form of welding.
- welshing — Present participle of welsh.
- westings — Plural form of westing.
- westling — (obsolete) A westerner.
- whingers — Plural form of whinger.
- widgeons — Plural form of widgeon.
- wigglers — Plural form of wiggler.
- windages — Plural form of windage.