8-letter words containing s, g, n
- on wings — flying or as if flying
- ongoings — Plural form of ongoing.
- openings — Plural form of opening.
- opposing — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- organics — Plural form of organic.
- organise — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- organist — a person who plays the organ.
- osmosing — Present participle of osmose.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- ossining — a town in SE New York, on the Hudson: the site of a state prison formerly known as Sing Sing.
- osteogen — (physiology) The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.
- outsings — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsing.
- outsting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- outswing — (cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.
- outswung — made to curve outwards
- paganism — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- paganist — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- pangless — causing no pain
- pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
- parasang — an ancient Persian unit of distance, equal to about 3.5 miles (5.6 km).
- peckings — to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements.
- peelings — Peelings are pieces of skin removed from vegetables and fruit.
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- phishing — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- pickings — the act of a person or thing that picks.
- pignolis — pine nut (def 1).
- pingrass — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, with fernlike leaves
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pop song — a song played by a pop group
- posingly — in a posing manner
- positing — to place, put, or set.
- praising — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- pressing — urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need.
- proggins — a university proctor
- prognose — to predict the course of (disease)
- psyching — psych1 .
- pug nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- pug-nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- pursuing — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pyonings — the work of military sappers, such as the digging of trenches
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- quisling — a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building