8-letter words containing n, i, g
- divvying — Present participle of divvy.
- dizening — Present participle of dizen.
- dizzying — having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall; giddy; vertiginous.
- dockings — Plural form of docking.
- dog iron — an andiron.
- dog nail — a nail having a head projecting to one side.
- dollying — Present participle of dolly.
- donating — Present participle of donate.
- dong hai — East China Sea.
- dongting — a lake in S China, in NE Hunan province: main outlet flows to the Yangtze; rice-growing in winter. Area: (in winter) 3900 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- doodling — a design, figure, or the like, made by idle scribbling.
- dotingly — In a doting manner.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- doubling — anything that is twofold in size or amount or twice the usual size, quantity, strength, etc.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- douching — Present participle of douche.
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- 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.
- 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.
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- 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.
- 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.
- drugging — Present participle of drug.
- drumming — The act of beating a drum.
- dubbings — Plural form of dubbing.
- duckling — a young duck.
- duelling — a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.