8-letter words containing u, n, s, i, g
- pursuing — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- quisling — a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.
- refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- rustling — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- sanguify — to generate or turn into blood
- sanguine — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scouring — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scouting — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scudding — to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
- scuffing — to scrape (something) with one's foot or feet.
- sculking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
- segueing — to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
- seigneur — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- shangqiu — a city in E Henan province, in E China.
- shouting — loud cries, yells
- shucking — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- shunning — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
- shunting — the act or job of manoeuvring coaches
- sign out — a token; indication.
- sign-out — an act, instance, or time of signing out.
- signieur — a lord
- sing out — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- skulking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- skurfing — skateboarding.
- sludging — intravascular slowing or clumping of red blood cells.
- sluffing — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- slugging — a hard blow or hit, especially with a fist or baseball bat.
- sluicing — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- slumming — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- slurring — to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
- smudging — a dirty mark or smear.
- smurfing — the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable
- snubbing — to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.
- snuffing — to cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).
- snuggies — warm knitted underwear, especially long underpants, for women or children.
- sounding — emitting or producing a sound or sounds.
- sourcing — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- southing — a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north. Abbreviation: S.
- spousing — either member of a married pair in relation to the other; one's husband or wife.
- spouting — a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- sprucing — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- spudding — Informal. a potato.
- spurring — a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.