8-letter words containing s, i, g
- blousing — a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
- blushing — to redden, as from embarrassment or shame: He blushed when they called him a conquering hero.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bogomips — (unit) (From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux kernel. A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- brisking — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- brisling — another name for a sprat, esp a Norwegian sprat seasoned, smoked, and canned in oil
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- bruising — If someone has bruising on their body, they have bruises on it.
- buginese — a member of a Muslim people inhabiting the southern part of Sulawesi.
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- bush pig — any of a genus (Potamochoerus) of wild African pigs that live in forested regions
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- by sight — by appearance; by recognizing but not through being acquainted
- caginess — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- carlings — Plural form of carling.
- carvings — Plural form of carving.
- castings — Plural form of casting.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- ceilings — Plural form of ceiling.
- chagrins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chagrin.
- chasings — a design chased on metal.
- chasting — Present participle of chast.
- cheesing — the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
- chidings — Plural form of chiding.
- chiggers — Plural form of chigger.
- chignons — Plural form of chignon.
- choosing — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- chousing — Present participle of chouse.
- clashing — to make a loud, harsh noise: The gears of the old car clashed and grated.
- clasping — (of a leaf) partly or wholly surrounding the stem.
- classing — Present participle of class.
- clausing — (shipping) present participle of clause.
- clergies — Plural form of clergy.
- closings — Plural form of closing.
- coamings — Plural form of coaming, especially all sides of a single coach roof, hatch, or cockpit.
- coasting — the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
- coatings — Plural form of coating.
- codesign — to design jointly
- codlings — Plural form of codling.
- cognises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cognise.
- cognizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cognize.