8-letter words containing s, i, g
- ashikaga — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns 1338–1573.
- aspiring — If you use aspiring to describe someone who is starting a particular career, you mean that they are trying to become successful in it.
- assaying — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assegais — Plural form of assegai.
- assignat — the paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in 1789, backed by the confiscated land of the Church and the émigrés
- assigned — Simple past tense and past participle of assign.
- assignee — a person to whom some right, interest, or property is transferred
- assigner — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- assignor — a person who transfers or assigns property
- assuming — You use assuming or assuming that when you are considering a possible situation or event, so that you can think about the consequences.
- assuring — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- astigmia — Also called astigmia [uh-stig-mee-uh] /əˈstɪg mi ə/ (Show IPA). Ophthalmology. a refractive error of the eye in which parallel rays of light from an external source do not converge on a single focal point on the retina.
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- at sight — as soon as seen
- auguries — Plural form of augury.
- backings — Plural form of backing.
- bagpipes — Bagpipes are a musical instrument that is traditionally played in Scotland. You play the bagpipes by blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.
- bailings — Plural form of bailing.
- balisage — a method of marking a land route with dim lighting so that vehicles can travel at higher speeds in blackout conditions.
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- bashings — Plural form of bashing.
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- bedights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedight.
- beeswing — a light filmy crust of tartar that forms in port and some other wines after long keeping in the bottle
- being as — You can use being as to introduce a reason for what you are saying.
- bemusing — to bewilder or confuse.
- besieged — to lay siege to.
- besieger — to lay siege to.
- besognio — a young soldier
- bi-swing — (of a garment) made with a deep pleat starting at the back waistline or belt and extending up to the shoulder on each side, to avoid constriction when the wearer's arms are extended.
- biddings — command; summons; invitation: I went there at his bidding.
- big easy — the New Orleans
- big eyes — any of several silver and red fishes of the family Priacanthidae, found in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies, having a short, flattened body and large eyes.
- big fish — If you describe someone as a big fish, you believe that they are powerful or important in some way.
- big guns — an influential or important person or thing: He's a big gun in science.
- big shot — A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization.
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bigstick — of, or relating to, irresistible military strength
- billings — Josh (dʒɑʃ ) ; jäsh) (pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw) 1818-85; U.S. humorist
- birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blessing — A blessing is something good that you are grateful for.