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8-letter words containing t, r, i, g

  • strigine — of or like an owl
  • strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
  • striking — Military. describing a fighter-bomber aircraft designed to carry large payloads at high speeds and low altitudes and also to engage in air-to-air combat.
  • stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
  • stringer — a person or thing that strings.
  • striping — a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing: the stripes of a zebra.
  • striving — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
  • stroking — an act or instance of stroking; a stroking movement.
  • subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
  • tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
  • taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
  • tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
  • tarrying — to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn: He tarried in Baltimore on his way to Washington.
  • telergic — relating to telergy
  • teraglin — an edible marine fish, Zeluco atelodus, of Australia which has fine scales and is blue in colour
  • the grid — the national network of transmission lines, pipes, etc, by which electricity, gas, or water is distributed
  • the ring — the sport of boxing
  • therblig — (in time and motion study) any of the basic elements involved in completing a given manual operation or task that can be subjected to analysis.
  • thesiger — Wilfred (Patrick). 1910–2003, British writer, who explored the Empty Quarter of Arabia (1945–50) and lived with the Iraqi marsh Arabs (1950–58). His books include Arabian Sands (1958), The Marsh Arabs (1964), and My Kenya Days (1994)
  • theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
  • thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
  • thrawing — British Dialect. to throw.
  • thriving — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
  • throwing — the act of projecting or casting (something) through the air, esp with a rapid motion of the arm and wrist
  • tigereye — a golden-brown chatoyant stone used for ornament, formed by the alteration of crocidolite, and consisting essentially of quartz colored by iron oxide.
  • tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
  • tigerism — an arrogant and showy manner
  • tigridia — any plant of the bulbous genus Tigridia, native to subtropical and tropical America, esp T. pavonia, the tiger flower or peacock tiger flower, grown for its large strikingly marked red, white, or yellow concave flowers: family Iridaceae
  • tigrinya — a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.
  • tireling — a tired person or animal
  • titograd — former name (1945–92) of Podgorica.
  • torching — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
  • torquing — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
  • towering — very high or tall; lofty: a towering oak.
  • tracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • tragical — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
  • traiking — to become ill or lose one's good health.
  • trailing — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
  • training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • tramming — trammel (def 3).
  • tramping — the act of tramping.
  • trancing — a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
  • transing — to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
  • trapping — traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage.
  • trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
  • trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
  • trebling — threefold; triple.
  • trekking — to travel or migrate, especially slowly or with difficulty.
  • trending — emerging as a popular trend: trending fashion accessories.
  • triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
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