8-letter words containing s, i, g, r
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- strigine — of or like an owl
- strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
- striking — Military. describing a fighter-bomber aircraft designed to carry large payloads at high speeds and low altitudes and also to engage in air-to-air combat.
- stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
- stringer — a person or thing that strings.
- striping — a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing: the stripes of a zebra.
- striving — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- stroking — an act or instance of stroking; a stroking movement.
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- sugaring — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
- swingers — a person or thing that swings.
- synergic — the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
- synergid — one of two small cells that lie inside the embryo sac of a flowering plant and nourish the ovum.
- syringes — a small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.
- thesiger — Wilfred (Patrick). 1910–2003, British writer, who explored the Empty Quarter of Arabia (1945–50) and lived with the Iraqi marsh Arabs (1950–58). His books include Arabian Sands (1958), The Marsh Arabs (1964), and My Kenya Days (1994)
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- tigerism — an arrogant and showy manner
- transing — to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
- trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- trussing — Civil Engineering, Building Trades. any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c). any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- trusting — Law. of or relating to trusts or a trust.
- trysting — an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
- unstring — to deprive of strings: to unstring a violin.
- uprising — an act of rising up.
- upspring — to spring up.
- usurping — to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- vagarish — vaguely or somewhat vagarious; relating to a whim
- vigorish — a charge paid on a bet, as to a bookie.
- vigoroso — (a musical direction) vigorous or spirited in manner.
- vigorous — full of or characterized by vigor: a vigorous effort.
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- warnings — Plural form of warning.
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- whingers — Plural form of whinger.
- wigglers — Plural form of wiggler.
- wordings — Plural form of wording.
- workings — Plural form of working.
- worsting — Present participle of worst.
- wresting — Present participle of wrest.
- wriggles — Plural form of wriggle.
- wringers — Plural form of wringer.
- writings — the third of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, variously arranged, but usually comprising the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.
- ygdrasil — the great ash tree whose roots and branches hold together the universe
- zastrugi — sastruga.