9-letter words containing e, c, g
- bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- blackgame — a large grouse found in northern Europe and Asia
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breeching — the strap of a harness that passes behind a horse's haunches
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- bug-juice — an alcoholic beverage, especially of an inferior quality.
- cablegram — a message sent by undersea cable
- cacafuego — a person with a fiery temper
- cacogenic — dysgenics.
- cadencing — rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words: the cadence of language.
- cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- cagelings — Plural form of cageling.
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- calcifuge — any plant that thrives in acid soils but not in lime-rich soils
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- canceling — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- 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.
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- caragheen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- card game — A card game is a game that is played using a set of playing cards.
- 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.
- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- cataloged — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cataloger — a person, normally in a library, who catalogues literary materials
- catalogue — A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- cd single — a compact disk, usually three inches in diameter, containing one or two popular songs.
- ceilinged — Especially in combination Having a (specified type of) ceiling.