8-letter words containing c, a, g, n
- congiary — (in ancient Rome) a gift from the emperor to the people or soldiers
- congrats — congratulations
- congratz — (Internet slang) congratulations.
- conjugal — Conjugal means relating to marriage or a married couple's relationship , especially their sexual relationship.
- contango — (formerly, on the London Stock Exchange) postponement of payment for and delivery of stock from one account day to the next
- cornflag — a gladiolus, any iridaceous plant of the genus Gladiolus
- corrigan — Mairead [muh-reyd] /məˈreɪd/ (Show IPA), born 1944, Northern Irish peace activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1976.
- cozenage — the practice of cozening.
- 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.
- cragsman — a rock climber
- cragsmen — Plural form of cragsman.
- 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.
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- crannogs — Plural form of crannog.
- 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.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- cyanogen — an extremely poisonous colourless flammable gas with an almond-like odour: has been used in chemical warfare. Formula: (CN)2
- cygnus a — a strong radio source in the constellation Cygnus associated with a distant peculiar galaxy.
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- 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
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- effacing — Present participle of efface.
- 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.
- escaping — Present participle of escape.
- 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.