8-letter words containing a, c, i, n, g
- clasping — (of a leaf) partly or wholly surrounding the stem.
- classing — Present participle of class.
- clausing — (shipping) present participle of clause.
- cleaning — the act of removing dirt or something undesirable
- clearing — A clearing is a small area in a forest where there are no trees or bushes.
- cleating — a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support: He nailed cleats into the sides of the bookcase to keep the supports from slipping.
- cleaving — Present participle of cleave.
- cloaking — Present participle of cloak.
- coaching — the act of training a person or team of people in a particular sport
- coacting — Present participle of coact.
- coamings — Plural form of coaming, especially all sides of a single coach roof, hatch, or cockpit.
- coasting — the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
- coatings — Plural form of coating.
- cogenial — Alternative spelling of congenial.
- cognatic — related by birth; of the same parentage, descent, etc.
- coinages — the act, process, or right of making coins.
- congaing — Present participle of conga.
- congiary — (in ancient Rome) a gift from the emperor to the people or soldiers
- corrigan — Mairead [muh-reyd] /məˈreɪd/ (Show IPA), born 1944, Northern Irish peace activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1976.
- crabbing — Informal. an ill-tempered or grouchy person.
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- cradling — a framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- cramming — intensive study, esp in order to pass an exam
- cramping — cramp iron.
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- cravings — great or eager desire; yearning.
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creasing — Present participle of crease.
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decating — a finishing process for making fabric more lustrous, for improving the tactile quality of the nap, and for setting the material to reduce shrinkage.
- decaying — rotting as a result of bacterial, fungal, or chemical action; decomposing
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- effacing — Present participle of efface.
- enacting — Present participle of enact.
- encasing — Present participle of encase.
- escaping — Present participle of escape.
- exacting — Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.
- faceting — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- fancying — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- fasching — a carnival celebration that precedes Lent in German-speaking countries and communities; Shrovetide.
- flacking — press agent.
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.