8-letter words containing i, g, n, a, t
- giantism — Pathology. gigantism.
- gigantic — very large; huge: a gigantic statue.
- gigatons — Plural form of gigaton.
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- gnathion — Craniometry. the lowest point on the anterior margin of the lower jaw in the midsaggital plane.
- gnathite — any of the mouth appendages of an insect or other arthropod.
- gnatling — a small gnat
- go-train — a lightweight passenger train providing rapid surface transport between a city center and the suburbs and from suburb to suburb.
- goatling — a young goat
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- gradient — the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
- grafting — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- granitas — Plural form of granita.
- granites — Plural form of granite.
- granitic — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- granting — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- gratinee — to cook (food) au gratin
- gratings — Plural form of grating.
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- grievant — a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- gyrating — Present participle of gyrate.
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- habiting — Present participle of habit.
- hang it! — an exclamation of anger or exasperation
- hastings — Thomas, 1860–1929, U.S. architect.
- hatching — a shading line in drawing or engraving.
- haunting — remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
- hearting — Present participle of heart.
- huang ti — the legendary first emperor of China.
- ideating — to form an idea, thought, or image of.
- ignatiev — Count Nikolai Pavlovich. 1832–1908, Russian diplomat and politician. As ambassador to Turkey (1864–77), he negotiated the Treaty of San Stefano (1878) ending the Russo-Turkish War
- ignatius — Saint (Ignatius Theophorus) a.d. c40–107? bishop of Antioch and Apostolic Father.
- ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- indagate — to investigate; research.
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.
- ingrates — Plural form of ingrate.
- initgame — (games) /in-it'gaym/ [IRC] An IRC version of the venerable trivia game "20 questions", in which one user changes his nick to the initials of a famous person or other named entity, and the others on the channel ask yes or no questions, with the one to guess the person getting to be "it" next. As a courtesy, the one picking the initials starts by providing a 4-letter hint of the form sex, nationality, life-status, reality-status. For example, MAAR means "Male, American, Alive, Real" (as opposed to "fictional"). Initgame can be surprisingly addictive. See also hing.
- intaglio — incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief.
- intaking — Present participle of intake.
- intangle — Archaic form of entangle.
- integral — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- interage — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- irangate — a political scandal of 1986 in the United States involving the illegal sale of arms to Iran in return for the release of US hostages held there, and the use of the profits to funds Contra rebels in Nicaragua
- irrigant — (surgery) irrigating agent.
- jaunting — a short journey, especially one taken for pleasure.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- legatine — of, relating to, or authorized by a legate.
- legation — a diplomatic minister and staff in a foreign mission.
- ligament — Anatomy, Zoology. a band of tissue, usually white and fibrous, serving to connect bones, hold organs in place, etc.