8-letter words containing c, a, g, l, i
- 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.
- cogenial — Alternative spelling of congenial.
- collegia — Ecclesiastical. college (def 11).
- coxalgia — pain in the hip joint
- cradling — a framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
- craggily — full of crags.
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- dialogic — of, relating to, or characterized by dialogue.
- flacking — press agent.
- 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.
- galactic — Astronomy. of or relating to a galaxy. of or relating to the Milky Way.
- galactin — prolactin.
- 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.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- glaciate — to cover with ice or glaciers.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glacious — Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy.“Gla
- glancing — striking obliquely and bouncing off at an angle: a glancing blow.
- glutamic — (organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from glutamic acid.
- glutaric — Of or pertaining to glutaric acid or its derivatives.
- glycemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glyceria — any aquatic grass species in the genus Glyceria
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- gracilis — a muscle in the inner side of the thigh, the action of which assists in drawing the legs inward and in bending the knee.
- guaiacol — a slightly yellowish, aromatic, crystalline substance, C 7 H 8 O 2 , resembling creosote and usually obtained from guaiacum resin: used in medicine chiefly as an expectorant and local anesthetic.
- gymnical — Alternative form of gymnic.
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- jackling — the winning of the ball, by the defender's team, after a tackle and before a ruck has formed
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- lancings — Plural form of lancing.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- legacies — Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest.
- lichgate — Alternative spelling of lych-gate.
- ligeance — Chiefly Law. the territory subject to a sovereign or liege lord.
- linguica — a highly spiced Portuguese garlic sausage.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- logician — a person who is skilled in logic.
- magickal — Involving, or pertaining to, magick (in modern occultism).
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- oracling — Present participle of oracle.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.