8-letter words containing g, i, t, s
- paganist — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- pigstick — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- positing — to place, put, or set.
- prestige — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
- pugilist — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- redigest — to digest again
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- register — a list or record of such acts, events, etc.
- registry — Windows Registry
- reingest — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- resiting — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- restring — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- rightest — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rightish — somewhat right, esp politically
- rightism — conservatism, especially in politics.
- rightist — of or relating to conservative or reactionary political views; noting or characteristic of the political Right.
- ringlets — locks of hair hanging down in spiral curls
- ringster — a member of a ring, especially a political or price-fixing ring.
- ringtoss — a game in which rings, often made of rope, are tossed to encircle an upright peg.
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- roosting — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rugosity — having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- rustling — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- sagacity — acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- sagittal — Anatomy. of or relating to the suture between the parietal bones at the roof of the skull or to a venous canal within the skull and parallel to this suture. (in direction or location) from front to back in the median plane or in a plane parallel to the median.
- santiago — a republic in SW South America, on the Pacific Coast. 286,396 sq. mi. (741,765 sq. km). Capital: Santiago.
- sastrugi — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- scatting — to sing by making full or partial use of the technique of scat singing.
- scenting — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
- scooting — to go swiftly or hastily; dart.
- scouting — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- scything — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- 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.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- shang ti — the chief of the ancient Chinese gods.
- 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.
- shifting — constant movement
- shirting — any shirt fabric, as broadcloth or oxford.
- shooting — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- shotting — the act or process of making lead shot in a shot tower.