8-letter words containing c, a, g, i
- cognatic — related by birth; of the same parentage, descent, etc.
- coinages — the act, process, or right of making coins.
- collegia — Ecclesiastical. college (def 11).
- congaing — Present participle of conga.
- congiary — (in ancient Rome) a gift from the emperor to the people or soldiers
- copiague — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- coraggio — an exhortation for a person to be brave
- corcaigh — a city and port in S Republic of Ireland, county town of Co Cork, at the mouth of the River Lee: seat of the University College of Cork (1849). Pop: 186 239 (2002)
- corrigan — Mairead [muh-reyd] /məˈreɪd/ (Show IPA), born 1944, Northern Irish peace activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1976.
- coxalgia — pain in the hip joint
- 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.
- craggily — full of crags.
- 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.
- cribbage — a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- effacing — Present participle of efface.
- enacting — Present participle of enact.
- encasing — Present participle of encase.
- 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.
- exacting — Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.
- faceting — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.