9-letter words containing c, i, r, g, a
- 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.
- carriages — Plural form of carriage.
- carrigeen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- cartilage — Cartilage is a strong, flexible substance in your body, especially around your joints and in your nose.
- cartridge — A cartridge is a metal or cardboard tube containing a bullet and an explosive substance. Cartridges are used in guns.
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- cellaring — Present participle of cellar.
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- char-ring — to do (housework, odd jobs, or chores); clean or repair.
- chargrill — to grill (meat) over charcoal
- charmings — Plural form of charming.
- chartings — Plural form of charting.
- chiragric — a person who suffers from chiagra
- cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
- cigarillo — a small cigar often only slightly larger than a cigarette
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clearings — Plural form of clearing.
- clearwing — any moth of the family Sesiidae (or Aegeriidae), characterized by the absence of scales from the greater part of the wings. They are day-flying and some, such as the hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis), resemble wasps and other hymenopterans
- clergical — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; learned.
- cogitator — to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
- collaring — Present participle of collar.
- comparing — Present participle of compare.
- corniglia — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- corrading — Present participle of corrade.
- corraling — Present participle of corral.
- couraging — Present participle of courage.
- crackling — the crisp browned skin of roast pork
- craggiest — Superlative form of craggy.
- craigavon — a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Armagh. Pop: 57 685 (2001). Area: 279 sq km (108 sq miles)
- cratering — the process in which many craters are formed on a surface, as on a moon
- cravening — Present participle of craven.
- cravingly — With longing or craving.
- crayoning — Draw with a crayon or crayons.
- cremating — Present participle of cremate.
- crusading — campaigning
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- digastric — (of a muscle) having two bellies with an intermediate tendon.
- digraphic — Of or pertaining to a digraph.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.