8-letter words containing n, a, g, i, t
- bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bantling — a young child; brat
- batching — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- battling — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
- beathing — Present participle of beath.
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- bit bang — Transmission of data on a serial line accomplished by rapidly changing a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full-duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Zilog Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the cycle of reincarnation, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blatting — bleat.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- branting — Karl Hjalmar (jalmar). 1860–1925, Swedish politician; prime minister (1920; 1921–23; 1924–25). He founded Sweden's welfare state and shared the Nobel peace prize 1921
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- caatinga — a Brazilian semi-arid scrub forest
- cantigny — a village in N France, S of Amiens: first major battle of U.S. forces in World War I, May 1918.
- cantling — a layer of burnt brick lying directly over a clamp of bricks being fired.
- castings — Plural form of casting.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.
- chanting — Say or shout repeatedly in a sing-song tone.
- charting — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- chasting — Present participle of chast.
- chatting — Present participle of chat.
- cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
- chingtao — Qingdao
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- clarting — Present participle of clart.
- cleating — a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support: He nailed cleats into the sides of the bookcase to keep the supports from slipping.
- coacting — Present participle of coact.
- coasting — the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
- coatings — Plural form of coating.
- cognatic — related by birth; of the same parentage, descent, etc.
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- daunting — Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- decating — a finishing process for making fabric more lustrous, for improving the tactile quality of the nap, and for setting the material to reduce shrinkage.
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- dilating — Present participle of dilate.
- dingbats — Slang. an eccentric, silly, or empty-headed person.
- donating — Present participle of donate.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.