8-letter words containing a, g, c
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- delegacy — an elected standing committee at some British universities
- diagetic — Misspelling of diegetic.
- dialogic — of, relating to, or characterized by dialogue.
- digicams — Plural form of digicam.
- digicash — (company) A company, started in April 1990, which aims to develop and license products to support electronic payment methods including chip card, software only, and hybrid.
- digipack — a cardboard package for a compact disc or DVD
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- dogcarts — Plural form of dogcart.
- dogfaces — Plural form of dogface.
- dogmatic — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- dogwatch — Nautical. either of two two-hour watches, the first from 4 to 6 p.m., the latter from 6 to 8 p.m.
- echogram — a record produced by the action of an echograph.
- effacing — Present participle of efface.
- egg case — Entomology. ootheca.
- egg coal — anthracite in sizes ranging from 2.44 to 3.25 inches (8 to 8 cm), intermediate between broken coal and stove coal.
- eggcrate — of or resembling a horizontal construction divided by vertical partitions into cell-like areas, used especially for directing downward rays of overhead light: eggcrate ceiling fixtures.
- elegance — The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.
- elegancy — Alternative form of elegance.
- enacting — Present participle of enact.
- encasing — Present participle of encase.
- encharge — (obsolete, transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
- epagogic — relating to inductive reasoning
- epigamic — attractive to the opposite sex
- ergastic — consisting of the non-living by-products of protoplasmic activity
- escaping — Present participle of escape.
- escargot — A snail, especially as an item on a menu.
- exacting — Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.
- exchange — Give something and receive something of the same kind in return.
- 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.
- fracting — Alternative form of fracking.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gadhelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- gaiseric — Genseric.
- galactan — any of the class of hexosans, as agar, that yield galactose upon hydrolysis.
- galactic — Astronomy. of or relating to a galaxy. of or relating to the Milky Way.
- galactin — prolactin.
- galacto- — milk or milky
- galician — of or relating to Galicia in NW Spain, its people, or their language.
- gallican — Gallic; French.
- galvanic — pertaining to or produced by galvanism; producing or caused by an electric current.
- gambogic — of or derived from gamboge
- gamecast — the broadcast of a team sport game.
- gamecock — a rooster of a fighting breed, or one bred and trained for fighting.