9-letter words containing t, a, n, g
- cannoting — cannot but, have no alternative but to: We cannot but choose otherwise.
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- cantingly — In a canting manner; with jargon or religious affectation.
- cantoning — Present participle of canton.
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- caratinga — a city in E Brazil.
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- cartagena — a port in NW Colombia, on the Caribbean: centre for the Inquisition and the slave trade in the 16th century; chief oil port of Colombia. Pop: 1 002 000 (2005 est)
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- catfacing — a disorder that causes scarring of tomatoes
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- chartings — Plural form of charting.
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- clientage — a body of clients; clientele.
- coagulant — a substance that aids or produces coagulation
- cognately — In a way that is cognate.
- cognation — relationship by descent from the same ancestor or source
- cognisant — a frequent misspelling of cognizant.
- cognizant — If someone is cognizant of something, they are aware of it or understand it.
- collating — to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheets of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc.).
- combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- conestoga — a large, heavy, broad-wheeled covered wagon, used especially for transporting pioneers and freight across North America during the early westward migration.
- conjugant — either of a pair of organisms or gametes undergoing conjugation
- conjugate — When pupils or teachers conjugate a verb, they give its different forms in a particular order.
- connaught — Connacht
- contagion — Contagion is the spreading of a particular disease by someone touching another person who is already affected by the disease.
- contagium — the specific virus or other direct cause of any infectious disease
- contangos — Plural form of contango.
- cotangent — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of tangent
- cottaging — Cottaging is homosexual activity between men in public toilets.
- cratering — the process in which many craters are formed on a surface, as on a moon
- cremating — Present participle of cremate.
- cut along — to hurry off
- daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- dagnabbit — (US, euphemistic, dated) goddamnit.
- dartingly — In a darting manner; rapidly.
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- decanting — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- defeating — Present participle of defeat.
- deflating — to release the air or gas from (something inflated, as a balloon): They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
- delignate — (rare, transitive) To clear or strip of wood.
- denegated — Simple past tense and past participle of denegate.
- denigrate — If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them.
- dentalgia — Toothache.
- departing — to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.
- desalting — Present participle of desalt.
- designate — When you designate someone as something, you formally choose them to do that particular job.