8-letter words containing i, r, g, a, t
- rigatoni — a tubular pasta in short, ribbed pieces.
- ring taw — ringer1 (def 4).
- ringtail — any phalanger of the genus Pseudocheirus, having the prehensile tail curled into a ring.
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- rogation — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
- rotating — to cause to turn around an axis or center point; revolve.
- sastrugi — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starving — very hungry
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stravaig — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tarrying — to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn: He tarried in Baltimore on his way to Washington.
- teraglin — an edible marine fish, Zeluco atelodus, of Australia which has fine scales and is blue in colour
- thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
- thrawing — British Dialect. to throw.
- tigridia — any plant of the bulbous genus Tigridia, native to subtropical and tropical America, esp T. pavonia, the tiger flower or peacock tiger flower, grown for its large strikingly marked red, white, or yellow concave flowers: family Iridaceae
- tigrinya — a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.
- titograd — former name (1945–92) of Podgorica.
- tracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- tragical — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
- traiking — to become ill or lose one's good health.
- trailing — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- tramming — trammel (def 3).
- tramping — the act of tramping.
- trancing — a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- transing — to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
- trapping — traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage.
- trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
- triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
- trigonal — of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle; having three angles; triangular.
- trigraph — a group of three letters representing a single speech sound, as eau in beau.
- ugaritic — of or relating to Ugarit, its people, or their language.
- vintager — a person who helps in the harvest of grapes for winemaking.
- watering — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- zastrugi — sastruga.
- ziggurat — (among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces.