8-letter words containing ting
- piloting — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- pirating — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- pivoting — a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which something rotates or oscillates.
- 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.
- plotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- pointing — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- positing — to place, put, or set.
- printing — the state of being printed.
- q rating — a figure, based on opinion polls, intended to reflect how relatively popular and recognizable a given TV performer is with audiences
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- quieting — Present participle of quiet.
- 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.
- quirting — Present participle of quirt.
- quitting — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- ratingen — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia in W central Germany, N of Dusseldorf.
- reacting — to act or perform again.
- rebating — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- resiting — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- righting — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- riveting — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- roosting — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rotating — to cause to turn around an axis or center point; revolve.
- scatting — to sing by making full or partial use of the technique of scat singing.
- scenting — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
- scooting — to go swiftly or hastily; dart.
- scouting — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- sheeting — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- shifting — constant movement
- shirting — any shirt fabric, as broadcloth or oxford.
- shooting — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- shotting — the act or process of making lead shot in a shot tower.
- shouting — loud cries, yells
- shunting — the act or job of manoeuvring coaches
- siftings — something sifted: siftings of flour.
- sighting — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- skeeting — to spit (saliva or a mouthful of other liquid) from the mouth, especially between the teeth.
- skirting — the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
- 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.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.