9-letter words containing t, g, s, i
- big beast — an important or powerful person
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- big stick — force or the threat of using force
- big style — to a great degree or extent
- biologist — a specialist in biology.
- bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 For scientific and technical purposes these units have been replaced by SI units
- chartings — Plural form of charting.
- chitlings — the small intestine of swine, especially when prepared as food.
- closeting — Present participle of closet.
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- cogitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cogitate.
- cognetics — The engineering of objects to make them accommodate critical human thought process.
- cognisant — a frequent misspelling of cognizant.
- cognovits — Law. an acknowledgment or confession by a defendant that the plaintiff's cause, or part of it, is just, wherefore the defendant, to save expense, permits judgment to be entered without trial.
- collagist — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- contusing — Present participle of contuse.
- corseting — Present participle of corset.
- cosseting — to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.
- costalgia — Pain in the ribs, or the costal muscles.
- costings' — cost accounting.
- costuming — a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- craggiest — Superlative form of craggy.
- crestings — Plural form of cresting.
- cultigens — Plural form of cultigen.
- curtsying — Present participle of curtsey.
- dashlight — a light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile, esp at night
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- degusting — Present participle of degust.
- delisting — Present participle of delist.
- demisting — (in a motor vehicle) the removal of condensation through evaporation produced by a heater or blower
- desalting — Present participle of desalt.
- deserting — Present participle of desert.
- designate — When you designate someone as something, you formally choose them to do that particular job.
- desilting — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- desisting — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- despiting — in spite of; notwithstanding.
- destining — Present participle of destine.
- detesting — Present participle of detest.