8-letter words containing g, t
- dogtrots — Plural form of dogtrot.
- dogwatch — Nautical. either of two two-hour watches, the first from 4 to 6 p.m., the latter from 6 to 8 p.m.
- donating — Present participle of donate.
- dongting — a lake in S China, in NE Hunan province: main outlet flows to the Yangtze; rice-growing in winter. Area: (in winter) 3900 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- dotingly — In a doting manner.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- doughnut — a small cake of sweetened or, sometimes, unsweetened dough fried in deep fat, typically shaped like a ring or, when prepared with a filling, a ball.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- droughts — Plural form of drought.
- droughty — dry.
- druggist — a person who compounds or prepares drugs according to medical prescriptions; apothecary; pharmacist; dispensing chemist.
- duetting — turn-taking by two birds in the execution of a song pattern.
- duo-tang — a type of folder with flexible metal fasteners
- dust bag — the bag used in some models of vacuum cleaner for the collection of dust
- dust gun — a hand-operated device for spraying pesticide or dusting plants.
- dustings — Plural form of dusting.
- e-voting — electronic voting.
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- eastings — Plural form of easting.
- eclogite — a rock consisting of a granular aggregate of green pyroxene and red garnet, often containing kyanite, silvery mica, quartz, and pyrite.
- ectogeny — the effect of pollination and fertilization on the tissues of a plant
- edge out — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- edgerton — Harold Eugene ("Doc") 1903–90, U.S. electrical engineer and photographer.
- egestion — the process of egesting; the voiding of the refuse of digestion.
- eggcrate — of or resembling a horizontal construction divided by vertical partitions into cell-like areas, used especially for directing downward rays of overhead light: eggcrate ceiling fixtures.
- eggfruit — the fruit of the eggplant or aubergine, Solanum melongena
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- ego trip — sth done to satisfy yourself
- egoistic — Egoistical.
- egotists — Plural form of egotist.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- eighteen — Equivalent to the product of two and nine; one more than seventeen, or eight more than ten; 18.
- eighties — Plural form of eighty.
- ejecting — Present participle of eject.
- electing — Present participle of elect.
- elegists — Plural form of elegist.
- elongate — Make (something) longer, especially unusually so in relation to its width.
- emergent — An emergent property.