8-letter words containing i, g, n, a, t
- ligating — Present participle of ligate.
- ligation — the act of ligating, especially of surgically tying up a bleeding artery.
- lingayat — a member of the Lingayata cult.
- litigant — a person engaged in a lawsuit.
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- longtail — A common designation for an animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
- luxating — Present participle of luxate.
- magnetic — of or relating to a magnet or magnetism.
- maltings — Plural form of malting.
- mangiest — Superlative form of mangy.
- mantling — a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
- matching — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- maturing — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- metaling — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- migrants — Plural form of migrant.
- mintages — Plural form of mintage.
- misagent — a bad agent
- mitigant — Tending to mitigate.
- mitnaged — an orthodox opponent of Chassidism
- mutating — to change; alter.
- naginata — A traditional Japanese halberd: a polearm historically used to cut down infantry and cavalry.
- naturing — Present participle of nature.
- navigate — to move on, over, or through (water, air, or land) in a ship or aircraft: to navigate a river.
- negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- negation — the act of denying: He shook his head in negation of the charge.
- negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- nightjar — a nocturnal European bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, of the family Caprimulgidae, having a short bill and a wide mouth and feeding on insects captured in the air.
- notating — to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation: The book describes how to notate music for instruments and voice.
- novating — Present participle of novate.
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- nutating — Present participle of nutate.
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- organist — a person who plays the organ.
- paganist — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- paginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- paignton — a town and resort in SW England, in Devon: administratively part of Torbay since 1968
- painting — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- pinotage — a red grape variety of South Africa, a cross between the Pinot Noir and the Hermitage
- pirating — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- plaiting — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- q rating — a figure, based on opinion polls, intended to reflect how relatively popular and recognizable a given TV performer is with audiences
- ratingen — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia in W central Germany, N of Dusseldorf.
- rattigan — Terence, 1911–77, English playwright.