8-letter words containing s, g, n
- railings — a fence, balustrade, or barrier that consists of rails supported by posts
- rankings — the official list of the best players in a particular sport
- raspings — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- reassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- redesign — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- reingest — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- residing — to replace the siding on (a building).
- resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
- resignee — a person who has resigned or is about to resign.
- resining — any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- resiting — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- respring — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
- restring — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- restrung — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- riesling — Horticulture. a variety of grape. the vine bearing this grape, grown in Europe and California.
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.
- ringless — a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- ringlets — locks of hair hanging down in spiral curls
- ringsail — ringtail (def 3).
- ringside — the area immediately surrounding a ring, especially the area occupied by the first row of seats on all sides of a boxing or wrestling ring.
- ringster — a member of a ring, especially a political or price-fixing ring.
- ringtoss — a game in which rings, often made of rope, are tossed to encircle an upright peg.
- ringwise — (of a boxer) used to being in a boxing ring and able to respond appropriately
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- robosign — to sign (a document) without reviewing its contents or supporting documents: The bank instructed employees to robosign piles of mortgages.
- roosting — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rsvp'ing — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- rungless — one of the crosspieces, usually rounded, forming the steps of a ladder.
- rustling — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- saddling — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
- saganash — (among the Algonquian Indians) a European
- sage hen — the sage grouse, especially the female.
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- saguenay — a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- saibling — the European char, Salvelinus alpinus, introduced into North America
- salading — the ingredients for a salad
- salering — an enclosed area for livestock at market
- salinger — J(erome) D(avid) 1971–2010, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- samarang — a seaport on N Java, in S Indonesia.
- sampling — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- sandling — a sand eel
- sangallo — Antonio Picconi da [ahn-taw-nyaw peek-kaw-nee dah] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ pikˈkɔ ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Cordiani) 1484?–1546, Italian architect and engineer.
- sangamon — the third interglacial stage of the Pleistocene Epoch in North America, after the Illinoian glacial stage and before the Wisconsin.
- sangaree — sangría.