8-letter words containing r, e, i, g
- the ring — the sport of boxing
- therblig — (in time and motion study) any of the basic elements involved in completing a given manual operation or task that can be subjected to analysis.
- thesiger — Wilfred (Patrick). 1910–2003, British writer, who explored the Empty Quarter of Arabia (1945–50) and lived with the Iraqi marsh Arabs (1950–58). His books include Arabian Sands (1958), The Marsh Arabs (1964), and My Kenya Days (1994)
- theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
- thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
- tigereye — a golden-brown chatoyant stone used for ornament, formed by the alteration of crocidolite, and consisting essentially of quartz colored by iron oxide.
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- tigerism — an arrogant and showy manner
- tireling — a tired person or animal
- towering — very high or tall; lofty: a towering oak.
- trebling — threefold; triple.
- trekking — to travel or migrate, especially slowly or with difficulty.
- trending — emerging as a popular trend: trending fashion accessories.
- triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
- twerking — a provocative dance performed by moving the hips rapidly back and forth while standing with the feet apart and raising and lowering the body in a squatting motion
- umpirage — the office or authority of an umpire.
- unerring — not erring; not going astray or missing the mark: The captain set an unerring course for home.
- unfringe — an outer edge; margin; periphery: on the fringe of the art world.
- unringed — not having or wearing a ring
- uttering — the crime of knowingly tendering or showing a forged instrument or counterfeit coin to another with intent to defraud.
- uxbridge — a town in SE England, part of the Greater London borough of Hillingdon since 1965; chiefly residential; seat of Brunel University (1966)
- v region — variable region.
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- verligte — (during apartheid) a person of any of the White political parties who supported liberal trends in government policy
- vicarage — the residence of a vicar.
- vigneron — a winemaker.
- villager — an inhabitant of a village.
- vinegary — of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid: a vinegary taste.
- vintager — a person who helps in the harvest of grapes for winemaking.
- virogene — a type of virus-forming gene
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- wagering — Present participle of wager.
- watering — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- wearying — Causing tiredness; tiring.
- web ring — A web ring is a set of related websites that you can visit one after the other.
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- weighter — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- weinberg — Steven. born 1933, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1979) with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam for his role in formulating the electroweak theory
- weregild — (in Anglo-Saxon England and other Germanic countries)
- whiggery — the principles or practices of Whigs.
- whingers — Plural form of whinger.
- wigglers — Plural form of wiggler.
- wigmaker — a person who makes or sells wigs.
- wingover — an airplane maneuver involving a steep, climbing turn to a near stall, then a sharp drop of the nose, a removal of bank, and a final leveling off in the opposite direction.
- wreaking — to inflict or execute (punishment, vengeance, etc.): They wreaked havoc on the enemy.
- wrecking — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- wresting — Present participle of wrest.