8-letter words containing c, a, g, e
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courages — the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
- coverage — The coverage of something in the news is the reporting of it.
- cozenage — the practice of cozening.
- cragsmen — Plural form of cragsman.
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- 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.
- creepage — a slow and gradual movement
- cribbage — a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
- cyanogen — an extremely poisonous colourless flammable gas with an almond-like odour: has been used in chemical warfare. Formula: (CN)2
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- decagram — dekagram
- decalage — the difference between the angles of incidence of the upper and lower wings of a biplane: A biplane has positive decalage if the angle of incidence of the upper wing is greater than that of the lower wing and negative decalage when the lower wing has the greater angle.
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decalogy — A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- 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
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- 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.
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- dogfaces — Plural form of dogface.
- 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.
- 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.
- gamecast — the broadcast of a team sport game.
- gamecock — a rooster of a fighting breed, or one bred and trained for fighting.
- gangetic — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- gascogne — Gascony