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8-letter words containing g, i, e, t

  • ringtone — telephone's ringing sound
  • riveting — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
  • routeing — (networking)   (US "routing") /roo'ting/ The process, performed by a router, of selecting the correct interface and next hop for a packet being forwarded. This is the British and international standard spelling. See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol.
  • 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.
  • scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
  • sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
  • seething — to surge or foam as if boiling.
  • sennight — a week.
  • 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.
  • sightsee — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
  • 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. ).
  • slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
  • smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
  • spenting — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sweating — the act or process of sweating
  • sweeting — a sweet variety of apple.
  • tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
  • tag line — the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point.
  • tagmemic — of or relating to tagmemes.
  • tailgate — a style of playing the trombone, especially in Dixieland jazz, distinguished especially by the use of melodic counterpoint and long glissandi.
  • taleggio — a square Italian soft cheese with a salt-covered rind
  • taligent — A company founded jointly by Apple and IBM in March 1992. HP announced in January, 1994 that it would buy a 15% stake in Taligent. They are working on an "object-oriented operating system", due to be finished sometime in 1995. However, various independent pieces of Taligent will likely appear to be used with other operating systems, e.g. IBM's WorkplaceOS. Pink is an older name for Taligent, dating back to work that Apple did before the formation of Taligent.
  • tangible — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
  • tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
  • teaching — Informal. teacher.
  • tealight — small candle floated in water
  • teething — eruption of the deciduous teeth, especially the phenomena associated with their eruption.
  • teiglach — a confection consisting of small balls of dough boiled in a syrup of honey, sugar, and spices.
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