8-letter words containing c, a, l, g
- 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.
- logomach — Someone who argues about the meaning of words.
- longcase — A longcase clock.
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- 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.
- octalogy — (rare) # A set of eight works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as eight individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- octangle — octangular.
- 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.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- pucelage — virginity
- relacing — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- rugelach — a fruit-and-nut pastry shaped like a croissant
- scalawag — a scamp; rascal.
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- scalping — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scargill — Arthur. born 1938, British trades union leader; president of the National Union of Mineworkers (1982–2002). He led the miners in a long and bitter strike (1984–85), but failed to prevent pit closures
- schlager — a type of European popular music focusing on love and feelings
- scraggly — irregular; uneven; jagged.
- slacking — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- synalgic — referred pain.
- tackling — equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.
- taiglach — a confection consisting of small balls of dough boiled in a syrup of honey, sugar, and spices.
- teiglach — a confection consisting of small balls of dough boiled in a syrup of honey, sugar, and spices.
- tragical — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.