9-letter words containing g, i, e, t
- auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
- augmentin — (medicine) The antibiotic amoxicillin.
- augustine — Saint. 354–430 ad, one of the Fathers of the Christian Church; bishop of Hippo in North Africa (396–430), who profoundly influenced both Catholic and Protestant theology. His most famous works are Confessions, a spiritual autobiography, and De Civitate Dei, a vindication of the Christian Church. Feast day: Aug 28
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- b-setting — a shutter setting in which the shutter remains open until the shutter control is released
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- batteling — Alternative form of battling.
- battening — to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- beastings — beestings
- bebington — a town in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: docks and chemical works. Pop: 57 066 (2001)
- bedighted — Simple past tense and past participle of bedight.
- bee-sting — a sting from a bee
- beestings — the first milk secreted by the mammary glands of a cow or similar animal immediately after giving birth; colostrum
- befitting — proper or right; suitable
- begetting — (especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
- belitoeng — an island in Indonesia, between Borneo and Sumatra. 1866 sq. mi. (4833 sq. km).
- benedight — blessed
- benighted — If you describe people or the place where they live as benighted, you think they are unfortunate or do not know anything.
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- benignant — kind; gracious, as a king to his subjects
- benignity — the quality of being benign; favourable attitude
- bergy bit — a small iceberg, somewhat larger than a growler.
- besetting — tempting, harassing, or assailing (esp in the phrase besetting sin)
- best girl — one's sweetheart
- bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- biestings — beestings
- big beast — an important or powerful person
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- big style — to a great degree or extent
- big-timer — Informal. the highest or most important level in any profession or occupation: She's a talented violinist, but she's not ready for the big time.
- bigotedly — in a bigoted manner
- bigotgate — an incident in the 2010 British general election in which the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, described in private a voter he had met as a ‘bigoted woman’ not realizing that his radio microphone was still on and that his comments were being recorded
- billeting — the activity of assigning soldiers or others to accommodation that is not normally used by them
- bit gauge — a device for stopping a bit when it has reached a desired depth.
- bittering — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- budgeting — financial planning
- buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail
- bulleting — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- by weight — as determined by weighing