8-letter words containing g, i, n
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- attiring — Present participle of attire.
- attuning — Present participle of attune.
- auditing — the act of inspecting, correcting, and certifying (accounts, etc)
- auguring — an excessively talkative person.
- aurignac — a village in S France: many prehistoric artifacts found in area.
- availing — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- avenging — taking vengeance on someone or something for a wrong done
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- aviating — Present participle of aviate.
- avoiding — Present participle of avoid.
- awaiting — waiting
- awanting — missing or in want of
- awarding — Present participle of award.
- awninged — sheltered by or covered with an awning
- b-boying — a style of acrobatic dancing that combines intricate footwork with spinning and tumbling, usually to funk or hip-hop music.
- babbling — inarticulate or imperfect speech.
- backings — Plural form of backing.
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
- baffling — impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
- bailings — Plural form of bailing.
- bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bantling — a young child; brat
- banxring — a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia, resembling a squirrel, native to Java and Sumatra
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- bashings — Plural form of bashing.
- batching — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- battling — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
- baulking — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- be dying — to be eager or desperate (for something or to do something)
- be going — to intend or be about to start (to do or be doing something): often used as an alternative future construction
- beaching — an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore.
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- beagling — hunting with beagle hounds.
- bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- beathing — Present participle of beath.
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- becoming — A piece of clothing, a colour, or a hairstyle that is becoming makes the person who is wearing it look attractive.