8-letter words containing c, i, n, g
- dysgonic — growing poorly on artificial media, as certain bacteria (opposed to eugonic).
- ecycling — the process of recycling electronic equipment or components
- effacing — Present participle of efface.
- ejecting — Present participle of eject.
- electing — Present participle of elect.
- emceeing — Present participle of emcee.
- enacting — Present participle of enact.
- encasing — Present participle of encase.
- encoding — (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
- encoring — Present participle of encore.
- enticing — Attractive or tempting; alluring.
- epigenic — of or pertaining to the theory of epigenesis
- epigonic — of an epigone
- erecting — Present participle of erect.
- eructing — Present participle of eruct.
- escaping — Present participle of escape.
- etchings — Plural form of etching.
- euchring — Present participle of euchre.
- eugenics — The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
- evicting — Present participle of evict.
- evincing — Present participle of evince.
- exacting — Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.
- exceding — Present participle of excede.
- exciding — Present participle of excide.
- excising — Present participle of excise.
- exciting — Causing great enthusiasm and eagerness.
- excusing — Present participle of excuse.
- execting — Present participle of exect.
- exigence — Exigency.
- exigency — An urgent need or demand.
- exogenic — Formed or occurring on the surface of the earth.
- 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.
- felching — Present participle of felch.
- fescuing — Present participle of fescue.
- fetching — charming; captivating.
- fickling — Present participle of fickle.
- filching — to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.
- finching — A dorsal line or stripe in cattle markings.
- flacking — press agent.
- flecking — a speck; a small bit: a fleck of dirt.
- fleecing — the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
- flicking — Present participle of flick.
- floccing — Also, flock. a tuftlike mass, as in a chemical precipitate.
- flocking — a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
- focusing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- forcings — Plural form of forcing.
- 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.
- fracting — Alternative form of fracking.