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9-letter words containing s, i, g

  • boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
  • borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
  • bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
  • bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
  • breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
  • brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
  • brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
  • brightish — fairly bright
  • bristling — Bristling means thick, hairy, and rough. It is used to describe things such as moustaches, beards, or eyebrows.
  • brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
  • by design — If something happens or is done by design, someone does it deliberately, rather than by accident.
  • by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
  • bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
  • cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
  • cagelings — Plural form of cageling.
  • call sign — A call sign is the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
  • callusing — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
  • campaigns — Plural form of campaign.
  • canvasing — Present participle of canvas.
  • caprifigs — Plural form of caprifig.
  • capsizing — Present participle of capsize.
  • carangids — Plural form of carangid.
  • cardigans — Plural form of cardigan.
  • caressing — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
  • carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
  • carriages — Plural form of carriage.
  • cascading — Present participle of cascade.
  • cassingle — a cassette single
  • castering — a person or thing that casts.
  • castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
  • catfights — Plural form of catfight.
  • caucusing — Present participle of caucus.
  • causalgia — a burning sensation along the course of a peripheral nerve together with local changes in the appearance of the skin
  • causalgic — relating to pain of the nerves
  • cd single — a compact disk, usually three inches in diameter, containing one or two popular songs.
  • censoring — any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
  • censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
  • cent sign — the symbol ¢ placed after a number to indicate that the number represents cents.
  • cgs units — a metric system of units based on the centimetre, gram, and second. For scientific and technical purposes these units have been replaced by SI units
  • chaffings — Plural form of chaffing.
  • charmings — Plural form of charming.
  • chartings — Plural form of charting.
  • chidlings — the intestines of an animal, esp a pig, prepared as food
  • chilidogs — Plural form of chilidog.
  • chinglish — written or spoken English that is influenced by Chinese vocabulary and grammatical structure and used primarily by native speakers of Chinese
  • chippings — Wood chippings or stone chippings are small pieces of wood or stone which are used, for example, to cover surfaces such as paths or roads.
  • chirpsing — Present participle of chirpse.
  • chiseling — a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
  • chitlings — the small intestine of swine, especially when prepared as food.
  • chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
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