8-letter words containing t, o, n, g
- cognatus — (legal) A person connected through cognation.
- cognovit — a defendant's confession that the case against him or her is just
- congrats — congratulations
- congratz — (Internet slang) congratulations.
- congreet — (of two or more people) to greet one another
- contango — (formerly, on the London Stock Exchange) postponement of payment for and delivery of stock from one account day to the next
- coopting — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- coregent — a joint regent
- costings — Plural form of costing.
- cotingid — (zoology) Any member of the Cotingidae.
- counting — Not counting a particular thing means not including that thing. Counting a particular thing means including that thing.
- courting — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- coveting — Present participle of covet.
- crofting — In Scotland, crofting is the activity of farming on small pieces of land.
- cytogeny — (biology) cell production or development; cytogenesis.
- deighton — Len. born 1929, British thriller writer. His books include The Ipcress File (1962), Bomber (1970), and the trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match (1983–85)
- demoting — Present participle of demote.
- denoting — to be a mark or sign of; indicate: A fever often denotes an infection.
- detoxing — Present participle of detox.
- devoting — to give up or appropriate to or concentrate on a particular pursuit, occupation, purpose, cause, etc.: to devote one's time to reading.
- dig into — to penetrate by or as by digging
- digitron — a type of tube, for displaying information, having a common anode and several cathodes shaped in the form of characters, which can be lit by a glow discharge
- dipthong — Obsolete spelling of diphthong.
- dittoing — Present participle of ditto.
- donating — Present participle of donate.
- dongting — a lake in S China, in NE Hunan province: main outlet flows to the Yangtze; rice-growing in winter. Area: (in winter) 3900 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- dotingly — In a doting manner.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- doughnut — a small cake of sweetened or, sometimes, unsweetened dough fried in deep fat, typically shaped like a ring or, when prepared with a filling, a ball.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- duo-tang — a type of folder with flexible metal fasteners
- e-voting — electronic voting.
- ectogeny — the effect of pollination and fertilization on the tissues of a plant
- edgerton — Harold Eugene ("Doc") 1903–90, U.S. electrical engineer and photographer.
- egestion — the process of egesting; the voiding of the refuse of digestion.
- elongate — Make (something) longer, especially unusually so in relation to its width.
- estragon — Tarragon.
- estrogen — Any of a group of steroid hormones that promote the development and maintenance of female characteristics of the body. Such hormones are also produced artificially for use in oral contraceptives or to treat menopausal and menstrual disorders.
- fagoting — a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc.
- flatlong — With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- flouting — Openly disregard (a rule, law or convention).
- foisting — Present participle of foist.
- fontange — Often, fontanges. commode (def 4).
- footings — Plural form of footing.
- footling — foolish; silly: ridiculous, footling remarks.
- footlong — approximately one foot in length: Their specialty is footlong hotdogs.
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- fronting — the foremost part or surface of anything.