7-letter words containing i, g, n, t
- letting — Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
- lifting — Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
- lighten — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
- lignite — a soft coal, usually dark brown, often having a distinct woodlike texture, and intermediate in density and carbon content between peat and bituminous coal.
- lilting — rhythmic swing or cadence.
- linting — the process of making lint
- listing — a careening, or leaning to one side, as of a ship.
- lofting — a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
- looting — spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- lotting — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- louting — an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- lunting — a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- lusting — intense sexual desire or appetite.
- maginot — André, 1877–1932, French minister of war 1929–32: backed construction of Maginot Line.
- malting — germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
- marting — Present participle of mart.
- masting — Nautical. a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast. any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast. any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- matings — Plural form of mating, gerund of 'mate'.
- matting — a piece of cardboard or other material placed over or under a drawing, painting, photograph, etc., to serve as a frame or provide a border between the picture and the frame.
- meeting — an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races: a track meet.
- melting — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- migrant — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
- mingent — Discharging urine.
- mintage — the act or process of minting.
- minting — intent; purpose.
- misting — a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- mitogen — any substance or agent that stimulates mitotic cell division.
- mitring — to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.
- molting — (of birds, insects, reptiles, etc.) to cast or shed the feathers, skin, or the like, that will be replaced by a new growth.
- mooting — Present participle of moot.
- mugient — (obsolete) lowing; bellowing.
- musting — to be obliged; be compelled: Do I have to go? I must, I suppose.
- negrito — a member of any of various small-statured, indigenous peoples of Africa, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islands, and southern India.
- nesting — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- netting — net income, profit, or the like.
- nighest — (archaic) Superlative form of nigh.
- nighted — Dark; clouded.
- nighter — (only in combinations) Someone or something who does something for a certain number of nights.
- nightie — a nightgown.
- nightly — coming or occurring each night: his nightly walk to the newsstand.
- niigata — a seaport on NW Honshu, in central Japan.
- nithing — a villain or coward who breaks a code of honour
- nothing — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- nutting — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- ointing — Present participle of oint.
- orating — Present participle of orate.
- ousting — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
- outgain — to gain more than
- outgrin — to exceed in grinning
- outings — Plural form of outing.