9-letter words containing i, n, a, t, g
- babington — Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- balloting — voting in an election
- bang into — a loud, sudden, explosive noise, as the discharge of a gun.
- bang tidy — of exceptionally good quality
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- baptising — Present participle of baptise.
- baptizing — Present participle of baptize.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- batteling — Alternative form of battling.
- battening — to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- beastings — beestings
- benignant — kind; gracious, as a king to his subjects
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- cannoting — cannot but, have no alternative but to: We cannot but choose otherwise.
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- cantingly — In a canting manner; with jargon or religious affectation.
- cantoning — Present participle of canton.
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- caratinga — a city in E Brazil.
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- catfacing — a disorder that causes scarring of tomatoes
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- chartings — Plural form of charting.
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- clientage — a body of clients; clientele.
- cognation — relationship by descent from the same ancestor or source
- cognisant — a frequent misspelling of cognizant.
- cognizant — If someone is cognizant of something, they are aware of it or understand it.
- collating — to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheets of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc.).
- combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- contagion — Contagion is the spreading of a particular disease by someone touching another person who is already affected by the disease.
- contagium — the specific virus or other direct cause of any infectious disease
- cottaging — Cottaging is homosexual activity between men in public toilets.
- cratering — the process in which many craters are formed on a surface, as on a moon
- cremating — Present participle of cremate.
- dagnabbit — (US, euphemistic, dated) goddamnit.
- dartingly — In a darting manner; rapidly.
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- decanting — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- defeating — Present participle of defeat.
- deflating — to release the air or gas from (something inflated, as a balloon): They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
- delignate — (rare, transitive) To clear or strip of wood.
- denigrate — If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them.
- dentalgia — Toothache.