8-letter words containing t, i, l, n, g
- nightowl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nonguilt — the state of being innocent or not guilty
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- outfling — (intransitive) To fling outward.
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- penlight — a flashlight similar in size and shape to a fountain pen.
- piloting — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- plaiting — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plingnet — UUCPNET. See also pling.
- plotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- quilting — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
- rattling — that rattles: a rattling door.
- relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- ringbolt — a bolt with a ring fitted in an eye at its head.
- ringlets — locks of hair hanging down in spiral curls
- ringtail — any phalanger of the genus Pseudocheirus, having the prehensile tail curled into a ring.
- rustling — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- settling — the act of a person or thing that settles.
- slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slatting — a slap; a sharp blow.
- sleeting — precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- slotting — a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- softling — a weakling or something which has a soft nature
- stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- stalking — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steeling — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- sterling — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- stifling — suffocating; oppressively close: the stifling atmosphere of the cavern.
- stilling — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- stilting — one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- stingily — reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser.
- stirling — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
- stooling — a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- sunlight — the light of the sun; sunshine.
- tackling — equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.
- tag line — the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point.
- taglioni — Marie. 1804–84, Italian ballet dancer, whose romantic style greatly influenced ballet in the 19th century
- tailings — the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
- taligent — A company founded jointly by Apple and IBM in March 1992. HP announced in January, 1994 that it would buy a 15% stake in Taligent. They are working on an "object-oriented operating system", due to be finished sometime in 1995. However, various independent pieces of Taligent will likely appear to be used with other operating systems, e.g. IBM's WorkplaceOS. Pink is an older name for Taligent, dating back to work that Apple did before the formation of Taligent.
- tallying — an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
- tangible — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- tangibly — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- tangling — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.