9-letter words containing s, i, e, g, n
- screaming — uttering screams.
- screening — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- scungille — the meat of a mollusc or conch, eaten as a delicacy
- se'nnight — a week.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- seal ring — a finger ring bearing an incised design for embossing a wax seal.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- searingly — in a searing manner
- seasoning — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- secluding — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- seconding — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secreting — to place out of sight; hide; conceal: squirrels secreting nuts in a hollow tree trunk.
- seemingly — apparent; appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified: a seeming advantage.
- seigneury — the domain of a seigneur.
- seigniory — the power or authority of a seignior.
- selecting — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- semiangle — half of a particular angle
- serengeti — a plain in NW Tanzania, including a major wildlife reserve (Serengeti National Park)
- sermoning — the preaching of sermons
- serrating — Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw: a serrate leaf.
- servicing — an act of helpful activity; help; aid: to do someone a service.
- settlings — the act of a person or thing that settles.
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
- shielding — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
- shivering — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shoveling — an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
- shreading — furring attached to the undersides of rafters.
- shredding — a piece cut or torn off, especially in a narrow strip.
- shrieking — a loud, sharp, shrill cry.
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- sickening — causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing: sickening arrogance.
- sieglinde — (in the Nibelungenlied) the wife of Sigmund and mother of Siegfried.
- sightline — any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater, stadium, etc.: Some of the sightlines are blocked by columns.
- sign over — a token; indication.
- sign test — a statistical test used to analyse the direction of differences of scores between the same or matched pairs of subjects under two experimental conditions
- signalize — to make notable or conspicuous.
- signalled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signaller — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- signeurie — seniority
- signified — the thing or concept denoted by a sign.
- signifier — a person or thing that signifies.
- signifies — (in linguistics) the signified.
- signore's — a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a married woman, either used separately or prefixed to the name.
- sigsberen — Archaic. a series of small hills.
- silencing — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- silvering — Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
- simmering — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.