8-letter words containing s, a, g, i, t
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- scatting — to sing by making full or partial use of the technique of scat singing.
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- shang ti — the chief of the ancient Chinese gods.
- siangtan — a city in E Hunan, in S China.
- sigatoka — a disease of bananas, characterized by discolored spots on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Mycosphaerella musicola.
- sigmatic — characterized by a Greek letter sigma or a Roman S added to a word or stem
- slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slatting — a slap; a sharp blow.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- stabbing — penetrating; piercing: a stabbing pain.
- stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- stacking — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- staffing — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- stagging — an adult male deer.
- staining — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- stalking — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- standing — rank or status, especially with respect to social, economic, or personal position, reputation, etc.: He had little standing in the community.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starving — very hungry
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- stigmata — a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- stillage — a low platform on which goods are stored in a warehouse or factory to keep them off the floor, to aid in handling, etc. Compare skid (def 3).
- stilyaga — (formerly, in the Soviet Union) a person, usually young, who adopted the unconventional manner and dress of some Western youth groups, as rockers or punk-rock fans.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- stoating — the process or technique of finishing a facing, collar, or the like, or of mending material with concealed stitching.
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stravaig — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- swathing — to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully.
- swatting — to hit; slap; smack.
- sweating — the act or process of sweating
- tailings — the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
- tightass — an inhibited or excessively self-controlled person
- toasting — the act of raising a toast
- transing — to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
- trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- tsinghai — a province in W central China. 269,187 sq. mi. (697,194 sq. km). Capital: Xining.
- tsingtao — Older Spelling. a seaport in E Shandong province, in E China.
- unsating — not sating
- vestigia — a vestigial structure of any kind; vestige.