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9-letter words containing s, i, g

  • 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.
  • selfridge — Harry Gordon, 1857?–1947, British retail merchant, born in the U.S.
  • semiangle — half of a particular angle
  • semiglobe — a half globe; a hemisphere
  • semigloss — (of paint or a painted surface) having a moderate, satiny luster; having or producing a sheen that is neither flat nor highly glossy.
  • semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
  • semiology — the study of signs and symbols; semiotics.
  • semirigid — not fully rigid; partly rigid.
  • serengeti — a plain in NW Tanzania, including a major wildlife reserve (Serengeti National Park)
  • sergius i — died a.d. 701, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 687–701.
  • serigraph — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • 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.
  • sexologic — pertaining to the study of human sexuality
  • sgian-dhu — a dirk carried in the stocking by Highlanders
  • sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
  • shadowing — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shakingly — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
  • shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
  • 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.
  • shingling — a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
  • shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
  • shiningly — in a shining or bright manner
  • shinnying — a simple variety of hockey, played with a ball, block of wood, or the like, and clubs curved at one end.
  • 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.
  • show girl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
  • 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.
  • shrilling — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
  • shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
  • shrinking — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
  • shuttling — a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
  • sialogram — an X-ray of a salivary gland
  • sickening — causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing: sickening arrogance.
  • sidelight — an item of incidental information.
  • sidlingly — in the manner of a sidle
  • sieg heil — hail to victory: a Nazi salute, often accompanied by the raising of the right arm
  • siegfried — (in the Nibelungenlied) the son of Sigmund and Sieglinde and the husband of Kriemhild. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of the Nibelungs, wins Brünnhilde for Gunther, and is finally killed by Hagen at the behest of Brünnhilde, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to the Sigurd of the Volsunga Saga. Compare Brünnhilde.
  • sieglinde — (in the Nibelungenlied) the wife of Sigmund and mother of Siegfried.
  • siftingly — by a sifting process
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