9-letter words containing n, e, i, g
- gritstone — A form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.
- groningen — a city in the NE Netherlands.
- groveling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- gruelling — exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
- guanidine — a colorless, crystalline, strongly alkaline, water-soluble solid, CH 5 N 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics, resins, rubber accelerators, and explosives.
- guanodine — (biochemistry, genetics) any of the three nucleotides guanosine monophosphate, guanosine diphosphate and guanosine triphosphate.
- guanosine — a ribonucleoside component of ribonucleic acid, comprising ribose and guanine.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- guideline — any guide or indication of a future course of action: guidelines on the government's future policy.
- guildsmen — a member of a guild.
- guillemin — Roger (Charles Louis) [roj-er chahrlz loo-ee;; French raw-zhey sharl lwee] /ˈrɒdʒ ər tʃɑrlz ˈlu i;; French rɔˈʒeɪ ʃarl lwi/ (Show IPA), born 1924, U.S. physiologist, born in France: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1977.
- guineapig — Alternative spelling of guinea pig.
- guinevere — Arthurian Romance. wife of King Arthur and mistress of Lancelot.
- gum resin — a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gum and resin.
- gumminess — The state or condition of being gummy.
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- gurneyite — a supporter of Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), an English Quaker, who, on a preaching tour of America, advocated Christian evangelical principles.
- gushiness — The property of being gushy.
- gustiness — blowing or coming in gusts, as wind, rain, or storms.
- gutsiness — The state or condition of being gutsy.
- guttering — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- haltering — Present participle of halter.
- hammering — The sound or action of hammering something.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hang fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- hang five — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hang time — the length of time that a football remains in the air after being kicked.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- happening — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harlingen — a city in S Texas.
- hastening — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- healingly — in a healing manner, intended to heal
- heartling — a term of endearment, little heart
- hecogenin — a steroid occurring naturally in plants and used in drugs including cortisone
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hedgingly — So as to hedge; without making a firm commitment.
- hegemonic — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- heightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heighten.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hellinger — Mark, 1903–47, U.S. writer and film producer.
- helmeting — the wearing or provision of a helmet
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- helsingør — a port in NE Denmark, in NE Zealand: site of Kronborg Castle (16th century), famous as the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pop: 35 002 (2004 est)