7-letter words containing n, i, t
- stowing — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
- strains — the sound of music being played
- straint — pressure or strain
- strimon — Struma
- strings — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- stringy — resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces: stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.
- striven — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- stygian — of or relating to the river Styx or to Hades.
- styling — a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
- subunit — a single thing or person.
- suction — the act, process, or condition of sucking.
- suiting — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- sunnite — Sunni (def 1).
- sunsuit — any of various brief garments or outfits worn by women and children for leisure or play in warm weather, as shorts and a halter.
- sustain — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- swithin — Saint, died a.d. 862, English ecclesiastic: bishop of Winchester 852?–862.
- syenite — a granular igneous rock consisting chiefly of orthoclase and oligoclase with hornblende, biotite, or augite.
- synthia — the informal name for a self-replicating synthetic bacterium, created in 2010 from a version of the Mycoplasma mycoides genome and implanted into a DNA-free Mycoplasma capricolum bacterial shell. It is the world’s first artificial life form
- t hinge — cross-garnet.
- t'aints — the area between the testicles or vulva and the anus; the perineum.
- t-joint — a right-angled joint, esp one in wood, making the shape of the letter T
- t1 line — T1
- t3 line — T3
- tabanid — any of numerous bloodsucking flies of the family Tabanidae, comprising the deer flies and horse flies.
- tabbing — a small flap, strap, loop, or similar appendage, as on a garment, used for pulling, hanging, or decoration.
- tabinet — a fabric resembling poplin, made of silk and wool and usually given a watered finish.
- tabling — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- taborin — a small tabor.
- tacking — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
- tacrine — a drug prescribed to patients of Alzheimer's disease
- taction — touch; contact.
- tagging — a children's game in which one player chases the others in an effort to touch one of them, who then takes the role of pursuer.
- tagline — the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point.
- tailfan — the fanned structure at the hind end of a lobster or related crustacean, formed from the telson and uropods
- tailfin — the fin situated at the tail of a fish
- tailing — the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
- tainted — a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.
- taiping — a person who participated in the unsuccessful rebellion (Taiping Rebellion) 1850–64, led by Hung Hsiu-ch'üan (Hong Xiuquan), who attempted to overthrow the Manchu dynasty.
- taiyuan — a province in N China. 60,656 sq. mi. (157,099 sq. km). Capital: Taiyuan.
- take in — the act of taking.
- take-in — a deception, fraud, or imposition.
- takings — You can use takings to refer to the amount of money that a business such as a shop or a cinema gets from selling its goods or tickets during a particular period.
- taliban — a Muslim fundamentalist group in Afghanistan.
- talking — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tallinn — a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of the Gulf of Finland: an independent republic 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 17,413 sq. mi. (45,100 sq. km). Capital: Tallinn.
- tamarin — any South American marmoset of the genera Saguinus and Leontopithecus (Leontideus), having silky fur and a nonprehensile tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- tamping — to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
- tampion — a plug or stopper placed in the muzzle of a piece of ordnance when not in use, to keep out dampness and dust.
- tanaina — a member of a North American Indian people of the Cook Inlet area of Alaska.
- tanghin — a strong poison obtained from the fruit of the shrub Tanghinia venenifera, formerly used in Madagascar to determine the guilt or otherwise of crime suspects