8-letter words containing n, a, g, i
- daubigny — Charles François (ʃarl frɑ̃swa). 1817–78, French landscape painter associated with the Barbizon School
- daunting — Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- dawdling — proceeding at a slow pace
- dawnings — Plural form of dawning.
- dazzling — Something that is dazzling is very impressive or beautiful.
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- 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.
- decaying — rotting as a result of bacterial, fungal, or chemical action; decomposing
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- diagnose — If someone or something is diagnosed as having a particular illness or problem, their illness or problem is identified. If an illness or problem is diagnosed, it is identified.
- diagonal — A diagonal line or movement goes in a sloping direction, for example, from one corner of a square across to the opposite corner.
- dialling — the process or action of operating a dial on a telephone in order to establish a connection
- digynian — belonging or relating to the Digynia class of plants that have two pistils
- dilating — Present participle of dilate.
- dingbats — Slang. an eccentric, silly, or empty-headed person.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- dog nail — a nail having a head projecting to one side.
- donating — Present participle of donate.
- dong hai — East China Sea.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dragging — marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
- 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
- dwarfing — Present participle of dwarf.
- 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.
- eastings — Plural form of easting.
- effacing — Present participle of efface.
- egomania — Obsessive egotism or self-centeredness.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- elapsing — Present participle of elapse.
- emailing — Present participle of email.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- enabling — software enabling