9-letter words containing c, i, r, g
- 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.
- carolling — a song, especially of joy.
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- 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.
- censoring — any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- centering — a temporary frame to support an arch or vault during construction
- 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.
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- chiragric — a person who suffers from chiagra
- chirology — Palm reading.
- chirpsing — Present participle of chirpse.
- chirurgie — (archaic) surgery.
- choirgirl — a girl who sings in a church choir
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- churching — the act of bringing someone, esp a woman after childbirth, to church for special ceremonies
- churnings — Plural form of churning.
- 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
- cindering — Present participle of cinder.
- ciphering — calculating
- cisgender — of or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds to their assigned birth gender
- 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.
- clerkling — a young or inexperienced clerk
- cockering — Present participle of cocker.