8-letter words containing g, e, n, t, s
- restring — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- restrung — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- ringlets — locks of hair hanging down in spiral curls
- ringster — a member of a ring, especially a political or price-fixing ring.
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scenting — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
- seething — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- sennight — a week.
- sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
- settling — the act of a person or thing that settles.
- sheeting — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- signoret — Simone (simɔ̃), original name Simone Kaminker. 1921–85, French stage and film actress, whose films include La Ronde (1950), Casque d'Or (1952), Room at the Top (1958), and Ship of Fools (1965): married the actor and singer Yves Montand (1921–91)
- skeeting — to spit (saliva or a mouthful of other liquid) from the mouth, especially between the teeth.
- sleeting — precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- songfest — an informal, often spontaneous gathering at which people sing folk songs, popular ballads, etc.
- songster — a person who sings; a singer.
- spanglet — a little spangle
- spenting — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- stagnate — to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steeling — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- steeping — to soak in water or other liquid, as to soften, cleanse, or extract some constituent: to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.
- steering — Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip: He got a good steer about finding the right job.
- stegodon — any extinct elephantlike mammal of the genus Stegodon, from the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, usually considered to be directly ancestral to the modern elephant.
- 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.
- sten gun — a British light submachine gun.
- 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.
- sterling — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
- strigine — of or like an owl
- stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
- stringer — a person or thing that strings.
- stronger — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- sweating — the act or process of sweating
- sweeting — a sweet variety of apple.
- thingies — Facetious. any small item whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- tongster — a tong member (a member of a Chinese secret society)
- tungsten — a rare, metallic element having a bright-gray color, a metallic luster, and a high melting point, 3410° C, and found in wolframite, tungstite, and other minerals: used in alloys of high-speed cutting tools, electric-lamp filaments, etc. Symbol: W; atomic weight: 183.85; atomic number: 74; specific gravity: 19.3.