8-letter words containing r, i, g, d
- 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.
- dreggish — resembling or containing dregs
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- 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.
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- 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.
- drudgism — the work of a drudge
- druggies — Plural form of druggie.
- drugging — Present participle of drug.
- druggist — a person who compounds or prepares drugs according to medical prescriptions; apothecary; pharmacist; dispensing chemist.
- drumming — The act of beating a drum.
- duisburg — a city in W Germany, at the junction of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers: the largest river port in Europe; formed 1929 from the cities of Duisburg and Hamborn.
- dwarfing — Present participle of dwarf.
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- enduring — Continuing or long-lasting.
- engirdle — Surround; encircle.
- enridged — ridged
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- fidgeter — a person who fidgets
- fig-bird — any Australian oriole of the genus Sphecotheres, feeding on figs and other fruit
- fingered — having fingers, especially of a specified kind or number (often used in combination): a five-fingered glove.
- firedogs — Plural form of firedog.
- fog drip — water falling to the ground from trees, especially conifers, that have collected the moisture from fog.
- frighted — Simple past tense and past participle of fright.
- frigidly — In a frigid manner; coldly.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gaillard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- galliard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- gardenia — any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.