9-letter words containing e, c, i, g
- 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.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- 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.
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- cellaring — Present participle of cellar.
- cementing — Present participle of cement.
- 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.
- cent sign — the symbol ¢ placed after a number to indicate that the number represents cents.
- centering — a temporary frame to support an arch or vault during construction
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- cephalgia — (medicine) headache.
- 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.
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- 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.
- chevening — a mansion and estate in SE England, in western Kent: the official country residence of the British foreign secretary
- chiefling — a minor chief
- chiengmai — a town in NW Thailand: teak, silver, silk industries: university (1964). Pop: 182 000 (2005 est)
- chirurgie — (archaic) surgery.
- chiseling — a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
- ci engine — A CI engine is an engine in which the fuel charge is ignited by the heat of compression.
- cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- cindering — Present participle of cinder.
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- 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
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- cleansing — serving or intended to cleanse