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8-letter words containing i, g, o, r, t

  • outreign — to reign for longer than
  • outright — complete or total: an outright loss.
  • ravigote — a highly seasoned velouté with white wine and vinegar, butter, cream, and mushrooms cooked in liquor, usually served hot with variety meats and poultry.
  • regolith — mantle rock.
  • ridgetop — the summit of a ridge
  • rigatoni — a tubular pasta in short, ribbed pieces.
  • right on — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • right-on — exactly right or to the point.
  • ring out — to give forth a clear resonant sound, as a bell when struck: The doorbell rang twice.
  • ring rot — a disease of potatoes, characterized by wilted foliage and rotting of the ring of vascular bundles in the tubers, caused by a bacterium, Corynebacterium sepedonicum.
  • ringbolt — a bolt with a ring fitted in an eye at its head.
  • ringtone — telephone's ringing sound
  • ringtoss — a game in which rings, often made of rope, are tossed to encircle an upright peg.
  • riot gun — a gun, especially a shotgun with a short barrel, for quelling riots rather than inflicting serious injury.
  • roasting — roasted: roast beef.
  • rogation — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
  • roosting — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
  • rotating — to cause to turn around an axis or center point; revolve.
  • rough it — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
  • routeing — (networking)   (US "routing") /roo'ting/ The process, performed by a router, of selecting the correct interface and next hop for a packet being forwarded. This is the British and international standard spelling. See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol.
  • rugosity — having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
  • shorting — having little length; not long.
  • signoret — Simone (simɔ̃), original name Simone Kaminker. 1921–85, French stage and film actress, whose films include La Ronde (1950), Casque d'Or (1952), Room at the Top (1958), and Ship of Fools (1965): married the actor and singer Yves Montand (1921–91)
  • snorting — (of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound: The spirited horse snorted and shied at the train.
  • sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
  • storming — a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
  • storting — the parliament of Norway, elected by popular vote, which is divided into the upper house (Lagting) comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting) comprising the rest.
  • strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
  • stroking — an act or instance of stroking; a stroking movement.
  • throwing — the act of projecting or casting (something) through the air, esp with a rapid motion of the arm and wrist
  • titograd — former name (1945–92) of Podgorica.
  • torching — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
  • torquing — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
  • towering — very high or tall; lofty: a towering oak.
  • trigonal — of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle; having three angles; triangular.
  • trigonic — pertaining to a trigon
  • trigonum — trigone.
  • trolling — to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
  • trooping — an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
  • trotting — (of a horse) to go at a gait between a walk and a run, in which the legs move in diagonal pairs, but not quite simultaneously, so that when the movement is slow one foot at least is always on the ground, and when fast all four feet are momentarily off the ground at once.
  • turingol — (language)   A high-level language for programming Turing Machines by Donald Knuth. It was the subject of the first construction of a nontrivial attribute grammar.
  • tutoring — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
  • worsting — Present participle of worst.
  • worthing — to happen or betide: woe worth the day.
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