8-letter words containing i, r, g
- diverges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diverge.
- divulger — One who divulges something.
- dog iron — an andiron.
- dojigger — (informal) A thing whose name is not known; a whatsit or doohickey.
- dowering — Present participle of dower.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dragging — marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- draining — Present participle of drain.
- dramming — Measurements. a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams). 1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- dredging — Present participle of dredge.
- dreggish — resembling or containing dregs
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- drilling — a small furrow made in the soil in which to sow seeds.
- drinking — suitable or safe to drink: drinking water.
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- dripping — an act of dripping.
- drolling — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drooling — to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- dropping — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drowning — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- drubbing — a blow with a stick or the like.
- drudging — Present participle of drudge.
- drudgism — the work of a drudge
- druggies — Plural form of druggie.
- drugging — Present participle of drug.
- druggist — a person who compounds or prepares drugs according to medical prescriptions; apothecary; pharmacist; dispensing chemist.
- drumming — The act of beating a drum.
- duisburg — a city in W Germany, at the junction of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers: the largest river port in Europe; formed 1929 from the cities of Duisburg and Hamborn.
- dwarfing — Present participle of dwarf.
- e region — the region of the ionosphere in which the E layer forms.
- earnings — money earned; wages; profits.
- earrings — Plural form of earring.
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- earwiggy — having an infestation or a swarm of earwigs
- earywigs — Plural form of earywig.