8-letter words containing a, g, c
- cantigny — a village in N France, S of Amiens: first major battle of U.S. forces in World War I, May 1918.
- cantling — a layer of burnt brick lying directly over a clamp of bricks being fired.
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- caragana — any of various shrubs and small trees with golden flowers of the genus Caragana and of the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and east Europe and widely planted in North America as windbreaks
- carageen — carrageen
- carangid — any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish
- cardigan — A cardigan is a knitted woollen sweater that you can fasten at the front with buttons or a zip.
- caringly — In a caring manner.
- carlings — Plural form of carling.
- carnegie — Andrew. 1835–1919, US steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland: endowed public libraries, education, and research trusts
- caroling — a song, especially of joy.
- caroming — Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- carriage — A carriage is an old-fashioned vehicle, usually for a small number of passengers, which is pulled by horses.
- carrying — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- carthage — an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 ad
- carucage — the tax due on a carucate
- carvings — Plural form of carving.
- castagno — Andrea del [ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), (Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla) c1423–57, Florentine painter.
- castings — Plural form of casting.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- catagory — Misspelling of category.
- catalogs — Plural form of catalog.
- catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.
- catfight — A catfight is an angry fight or quarrel, especially between women.
- cattegat — Kattegat
- caudling — Present participle of caudle.
- caulking — to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
- caviling — Present participle of cavil.
- cerclage — the treatment of an incompetent cervix by means of a suture in early pregnancy to prevent miscarriage
- cga card — a computer card for the display of graphics in colour introduced by IBM in 1981
- chaffing — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
- chagatai — a Turkic literary language of medieval Central Asia.
- chagrins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chagrin.
- chainage — a length as measured by a surveyor's chain or tape.
- chaining — Present participle of chain.
- chairing — a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- champing — to bite upon or grind, especially impatiently: The horses champed the oats.
- chancing — the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.
- changers — Plural form of changer.
- changeth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'change'.
- changeup — Alternative form of change-up.
- changhua — city in W Taiwan: pop. 186,000
- changing — not remaining the same; transient
- changkol — A type of hoe.
- changsha — a port in SE China, capital of Hunan province, on the Xiang River. Pop: 2 051 000 (2005 est)
- changteh — Changde