9-letter words containing t, i, g, r
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- bergy bit — a small iceberg, somewhat larger than a growler.
- best girl — one's sweetheart
- bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- big-timer — Informal. the highest or most important level in any profession or occupation: She's a talented violinist, but she's not ready for the big time.
- binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
- bittering — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- 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.
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- brightish — fairly bright
- bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
- bristling — Bristling means thick, hairy, and rough. It is used to describe things such as moustaches, beards, or eyebrows.
- brittling — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- 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.
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- 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.
- cartilage — Cartilage is a strong, flexible substance in your body, especially around your joints and in your nose.
- cartridge — A cartridge is a metal or cardboard tube containing a bullet and an explosive substance. Cartridges are used in guns.
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- centering — a temporary frame to support an arch or vault during construction
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- chartings — Plural form of charting.
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- cogitator — to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
- congruity — the condition or fact of being congruous or congruent
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- corrigent — (in a medicine) an ingredient that negates a side effect of another ingredient
- corseting — Present participle of corset.
- cottering — Present participle of cotter.
- courtling — a fawning or sycophantic member of a royal court
- craggiest — Superlative form of craggy.
- cratering — the process in which many craters are formed on a surface, as on a moon