8-letter words containing c, a, t, g
- congratz — (Internet slang) congratulations.
- contango — (formerly, on the London Stock Exchange) postponement of payment for and delivery of stock from one account day to the next
- cottager — a person who lives in a cottage
- cottages — Plural form of cottage.
- cottagey — of or resembling a cottage
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- cragfast — stranded or stuck on a crag
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- cutglass — Made of cut glass.
- cutgrass — the general name for any grass of the genus Leersia, native to the Americas and Eurasia
- 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.
- diagetic — Misspelling of diegetic.
- dogcarts — Plural form of dogcart.
- 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.
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- dogwatch — Nautical. either of two two-hour watches, the first from 4 to 6 p.m., the latter from 6 to 8 p.m.
- 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.
- enacting — Present participle of enact.
- ergastic — consisting of the non-living by-products of protoplasmic activity
- escargot — A snail, especially as an item on a menu.
- exacting — Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.
- faceting — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- fracting — Alternative form of fracking.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- galactan — any of the class of hexosans, as agar, that yield galactose upon hydrolysis.
- galactic — Astronomy. of or relating to a galaxy. of or relating to the Milky Way.
- galactin — prolactin.
- galacto- — milk or milky
- gamecast — the broadcast of a team sport game.
- gangetic — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- get back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- gigantic — very large; huge: a gigantic statue.
- glaciate — to cover with ice or glaciers.
- glutamic — (organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from glutamic acid.
- glutaric — Of or pertaining to glutaric acid or its derivatives.
- granitic — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- gravitic — Of or pertaining to gravity. (Archaic/rare, gravitational is more common, still seen though in compounds like magnetogravitic.).
- hatching — a shading line in drawing or engraving.
- lactogen — (biochemistry) A polypeptide placental hormone, part of the somatotropin family, with structure and function similar to those of growth hormone. It modifies the metabolic state of the mother during pregnancy to facilitate the energy supply of the fetus.
- 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.
- lichgate — Alternative spelling of lych-gate.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- magmatic — Geology. molten material beneath or within the earth's crust, from which igneous rock is formed.
- magnetic — of or relating to a magnet or magnetism.
- matching — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- mcteague — a novel (1899) by Frank Norris.