9-letter words containing t, i, g, r
- restringe — to restrict, contract, or confine
- resulting — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- retailing — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- retaining — to keep possession of.
- retelling — a new, and often updated or retranslated, version of a story.
- retighten — to tighten again
- retitling — the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
- retooling — to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
- retorting — to sterilize food after it is sealed in a container, by steam or other heating methods.
- revolting — disgusting; repulsive: a revolting sight.
- rewetting — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
- right now — at this precise moment
- right off — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right-way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- rightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rightless — lacking rights
- rightmost — farthest to the right side
- rightness — correctness or accuracy.
- rightsize — to adjust to an appropriate size: Layoffs will be necessary to rightsize our workforce.
- rightward — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- rigoletto — an opera (1851) with music by Giuseppe Verdi.
- ring gate — a gate having a widened opening containing a centered disk to prevent molten metal from falling in a direct vertical stream.
- ring spot — any of various plant diseases caused by a virus or fungus and characterized by concentric rings of discoloration or necrosis on the leaves.
- ring tone — The ring tone is the sound made by a telephone, especially a mobile phone, when it rings.
- ring true — sound or seem genuine
- ringlight — a circular electronic flash that surrounds a camera lens, used especially for even illumination in closeup photography.
- ringstand — a stand on which laboratory equipment is placed
- riot gear — Riot gear is the special clothing and equipment worn by police officers or soldiers when they have to deal with a riot.
- riot grrl — a young woman who enjoys feminist punk rock
- rivetting — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
- root sign — the symbol √ placed before a number or quantity to indicate the extraction of a root, esp a square root. The value of a higher root is indicated by a raised digit in front of the symbol, as in 3√
- rosetting — abnormal leaf formation in a plant due to disease
- rushlight — a narrow candle, formerly in use, made of the pith of various types of rush dipped in tallow
- sagittary — a centaur with a bow, as Chiron.
- scripting — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- secreting — to place out of sight; hide; conceal: squirrels secreting nuts in a hollow tree trunk.
- serengeti — a plain in NW Tanzania, including a major wildlife reserve (Serengeti National Park)
- serrating — Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw: a serrate leaf.
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
- sightseer — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- sintering — Sintering is when the density of a material is increased by melting which forms bridges between particles.
- sitzkrieg — slow-moving warfare marked by repeated stalemate.
- skirtings — fabric for making skirts.
- sortilege — the drawing of lots for divination; divination by lot.
- spagyrist — an alchemist