8-letter words containing c, o, g
- chip log — a log for determining a vessel's speed, consisting of a wooden chip tossed overboard at the end of a line that is marked off in lengths of 47 feet 3 inches; the speed is calculated by counting the number of such intervals that pass overboard in a 28-second interval
- chlodwig — German name of Clovis I.
- choaking — Present participle of choak.
- chocking — a wedge or block of wood, metal, or the like, for filling in a space, holding an object steady, etc.
- chomping — Present participle of chomp.
- chongjin — a port in E North Korea, on the Sea of Japan (East Sea). Pop: 603 000 (2005 est)
- choosing — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- chopping — to cut or sever with a quick, heavy blow or a series of blows, using an ax, hatchet, etc. (often followed by down, off, etc.): to chop down a tree.
- choragus — the leader of a chorus
- chording — the distribution of chords throughout a piece of harmony
- choregic — relating to a choregus
- choregus — the producer or financier of a dramatist's works in Ancient Greece
- chousing — Present participle of chouse.
- chughole — chuckhole.
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust
- clangors — Plural form of clangor.
- clangour — a loud resonant often-repeated noise
- cloaking — Present participle of cloak.
- clocking — Present participle of clock.
- clogging — to hinder or obstruct with thick or sticky matter; choke up: to clog a drain.
- clomping — Present participle of clomp.
- clopping — a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- closings — Plural form of closing.
- clothing — Clothing is the things that people wear.
- clotting — Present participle of clot.
- cloudage — a mass of clouds
- clouding — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- clouting — Present participle of clout.
- clowning — clownish behaviour
- coaching — the act of training a person or team of people in a particular sport
- coacting — Present participle of coact.
- coagency — a joint agency
- coagment — (obsolete) To join together.
- coagulum — any coagulated mass; clot; curd
- coal gas — a mixture of gases produced by the distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting: consists mainly of hydrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide
- coamings — Plural form of coaming, especially all sides of a single coach roof, hatch, or cockpit.
- coasting — the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
- coatings — Plural form of coating.
- cobbling — to pave with cobblestones.
- coccyges — Plural form of coccyx.
- cockling — Present participle of cockle.
- coddling — Act in a sissifying way.
- codesign — to design jointly
- codlings — Plural form of codling.
- codology — the art or practice of bluffing or deception
- coercing — Present participle of coerce.
- coffling — Present participle of coffle.
- cofiring — combustion of two different types of fuel at the same time
- cogenial — Alternative spelling of congenial.
- cogently — convincing or believable by virtue of forcible, clear, or incisive presentation; telling.