8-letter words containing i, n, e, r, t
- fire ant — any of several omnivorous ants, as the migrant Solenopsis geminata originating in tropical and subtropical South America, having a sting that produces a burning sensation.
- flintier — Comparative form of flinty.
- flittern — the bark of a young oak tree
- frenetic — frantic; frenzied.
- fretting — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frontier — the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
- ganister — a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- gantries — Plural form of gantry.
- genetrix — a female progenitor
- genitors — Plural form of genitor.
- geniture — birth; generation.
- gentrice — gentility; high birth.
- gentries — Plural form of gentry.
- gentrify — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- gerontic — geriatric.
- girgenti — former name of Agrigento.
- girtline — gantline.
- gitterns — Plural form of gittern.
- gradient — the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
- granites — Plural form of granite.
- gratinee — to cook (food) au gratin
- greenlit — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
- greeting — the act or words of a person who greets.
- grievant — a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- gripenet — [IBM] A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system, deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels.
- hair net — a cap of loose net, as of silk or nylon, for holding the hair in place.
- hairnets — Plural form of hairnet.
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- hearting — Present participle of heart.
- hereinto — into this place.
- herniate — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- hirrient — a trilled sound in speech or song
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- in store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- in tears — crying, weeping
- in there — in or into that place
- in utero — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- in-store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- inaurate — gilded or gleaming as if gilded
- incenter — the center of an inscribed circle; that point where the bisectors of the angles of a triangle or of a regular polygon intersect.
- incentre — the centre of an inscribed circle
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- incoterm — Alternative case form of Incoterm.
- increate — not created; uncreated.
- incretin — (biochemistry) A gastrointestinal hormone causing an increase in the amount of insulin released from the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans after eating, even before blood glucose levels become elevated.
- indenter — to form deep recesses in: The sea indents the coast.
- indentor — to form deep recesses in: The sea indents the coast.
- indicter — One who indicts.
- indirect — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.