9-letter words containing c, g
- campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
- campaigns — Plural form of campaign.
- campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- canceling — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- candygram — a message accompanied by sweets
- cane gall — a disease of blackberries, characterized by rough, warty outgrowths on the canes, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium rubi.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cannoning — Present participle of cannon.
- cannoting — cannot but, have no alternative but to: We cannot but choose otherwise.
- canopying — The activity of going through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- cantingly — In a canting manner; with jargon or religious affectation.
- cantoning — Present participle of canton.
- canvasing — Present participle of canvas.
- canyoning — the sport of travelling down a river situated in a canyon by a variety of means including scrambling, floating, swimming, and abseiling
- caprifigs — Plural form of caprifig.
- capsizing — Present participle of capsize.
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- caragheen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- carangids — Plural form of carangid.
- carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
- caratinga — a city in E Brazil.
- card game — A card game is a game that is played using a set of playing cards.
- cardialgy — cardialgia
- cardigans — Plural form of cardigan.
- careenage — (nautical) a beach with a steep, sandy shoreline on which a ship may be careened.
- careening — Present participle of careen.
- careering — an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework: He sought a career as a lawyer.
- caregiver — A caregiver is someone who is responsible for looking after another person, for example, a person who has a disability, or is ill or very young.
- caressing — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- cargo bay — the large central area of the space shuttle orbiter's fuselage in which payloads and their support equipment are carried. Also called payload bay. Compare bay2 (def 2a).
- carolling — a song, especially of joy.
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- carpingly — In a carping manner.
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- carrageen — an edible red seaweed, Chondrus crispus, of North America and N Europe
- carriages — Plural form of carriage.
- carrigeen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- cartagena — a port in NW Colombia, on the Caribbean: centre for the Inquisition and the slave trade in the 16th century; chief oil port of Colombia. Pop: 1 002 000 (2005 est)
- cartilage — Cartilage is a strong, flexible substance in your body, especially around your joints and in your nose.
- cartogram — a map showing statistical information in diagrammatic form
- cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- cartridge — A cartridge is a metal or cardboard tube containing a bullet and an explosive substance. Cartridges are used in guns.
- cascading — Present participle of cascade.
- cassingle — a cassette single
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.