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9-letter words containing n, a, g, r, i

  • argentite — a dark grey mineral that consists of silver sulphide, usually in cubic crystalline forms, and occurs in veins, often with native silver. It is found esp in Mexico, Nevada, and Saxony and is an important source of silver. Formula: Ag2S
  • arlington — a county of N Virginia: site of Arlington National Cemetery
  • arraigned — to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment.
  • arraigner — Lb legal One who arraigns.
  • arranging — Present participle of arrange.
  • arresting — attracting attention; striking
  • articling — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
  • ascribing — Present participle of ascribe.
  • ashlaring — ashlars collectively
  • aspargine — (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3 found in plants such as asparagus.
  • aspersing — Present participle of asperse.
  • asserting — Present participle of assert.
  • assigners — Plural form of assigner.
  • assorting — Present participle of assort.
  • astrangia — a genus of corals forming small, encrusting colonies, found in shallow waters off both coasts of the U.S.
  • astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
  • astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
  • asynergia — lack of coordination between muscles or parts, as occurs in cerebellar disease
  • attriting — Also, attrited. worn by rubbing or attrition.
  • au gratin — covered and cooked with browned breadcrumbs and sometimes cheese
  • aubergine — An aubergine is a vegetable with a smooth, dark purple skin.
  • authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
  • averaging — Present participle of average.
  • badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
  • baignoire — a theatre box on the lowest level
  • balk ring — A balk ring is a rotating part of a gearbox that prevents the gears from engaging too early.
  • banbridge — a district in S Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 43 083 (2003 est). Area: 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
  • bank giro — a British giro system operated by clearing banks to enable customers to pay sums of money to others by credit transfer
  • bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
  • baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
  • barasinga — a species of deer, Cervus duvaucelii, native to India and Nepal, known for the many-pointed nature of its antlers
  • barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
  • barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
  • bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
  • bargainer — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • barraging — Military. a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops.
  • barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • bartering — Present participle of barter.
  • battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
  • beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
  • bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
  • biangular — having two angles or corners.
  • borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
  • brabbling — to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle.
  • bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
  • brambling — a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail
  • branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
  • brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
  • brannigan — a noisy quarrel
  • breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
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