8-letter words containing a, l, n, g, i, s
- linsangs — Plural form of linsang.
- loadings — Plural form of loading.
- louganis — Gregory ("Greg") born 1960, U.S. diver.
- mailings — Plural form of mailing.
- maltings — Plural form of malting.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- misalign — To align incorrectly.
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- railings — a fence, balustrade, or barrier that consists of rails supported by posts
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.
- ringsail — ringtail (def 3).
- saddling — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
- saibling — the European char, Salvelinus alpinus, introduced into North America
- salading — the ingredients for a salad
- salering — an enclosed area for livestock at market
- salinger — J(erome) D(avid) 1971–2010, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- sampling — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- sandling — a sand eel
- sanglier — a closely woven fabric made of mohair or worsted, constructed in plain weave, and finished to simulate the coat of a boar.
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scalping — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shoaling — any large number of persons or things.
- signable — suitable for signing, as in being satisfactory, appropriate, or complete: a signable legislative bill.
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signally — conspicuously; notably.
- singable — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- slacking — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slagging — Also called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore.
- slamming — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- slanging — very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.
- slangish — rather slangy
- slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slashing — a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- slatting — a slap; a sharp blow.
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- spalling — a chip or splinter, as of stone or ore.
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- springal — a young man
- 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.