8-letter words containing i, n, s, g
- scoffing — food; grub.
- scolding — a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- scooping — a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
- scooting — to go swiftly or hastily; dart.
- scorning — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
- scouring — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scouting — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scowling — to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.
- scraping — an act or instance of scraping.
- scribing — scriber.
- scroggin — a tramper's home-made high-calorie sweetmeat
- scudding — to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
- scuffing — to scrape (something) with one's foot or feet.
- sculking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
- scything — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- sea king — one of the piratical Scandinavian chiefs who ravaged the coasts of medieval Europe.
- seagoing — designed or fit for going to sea, as a vessel.
- seedling — a plant or tree grown from a seed.
- seething — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- segueing — to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
- seigneur — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- seignior — a lord, especially a feudal lord; ruler.
- sennight — a week.
- settling — the act of a person or thing that settles.
- shadings — a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- shamming — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- shang ti — the chief of the ancient Chinese gods.
- shanghai — to enroll or obtain (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.
- shangqiu — a city in E Henan province, in E China.
- shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- shedding — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
- sheering — to deviate from a course, as a ship; swerve.
- sheeting — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- shelling — act of removing shell
- shelving — material for shelves.
- shieling — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shifting — constant movement
- shilingi — the currency of Tanzania
- shilling — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- shillong — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- shimming — a thin slip or wedge of metal, wood, etc., for driving into crevices, as between machine parts to compensate for wear, or beneath bedplates, large stones, etc., to level them.
- shingled — a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- shingles — small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.