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8-letter words containing e, l, g

  • cleaning — the act of removing dirt or something undesirable
  • clearing — A clearing is a small area in a forest where there are no trees or bushes.
  • cleating — a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support: He nailed cleats into the sides of the bookcase to keep the supports from slipping.
  • cleavage — A woman's cleavage is the space between her breasts, especially the top part which you see if she is wearing a dress with a low neck.
  • cleaving — Present participle of cleave.
  • clefting — (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
  • clergies — Plural form of clergy.
  • clerking — Present participle of clerk.
  • clingier — Comparative form of clingy.
  • cloudage — a mass of clouds
  • cogenial — Alternative spelling of congenial.
  • cogently — convincing or believable by virtue of forcible, clear, or incisive presentation; telling.
  • cogwheel — a wheel with a rim notched into teeth, which mesh with those of another wheel or of a rack to transmit or receive motion
  • collaged — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
  • collagen — Collagen is a protein that is found in the bodies of people and animals. It is often used as an ingredient in cosmetics or is injected into the face in cosmetic surgery, in order to make the skin look younger.
  • collages — Plural form of collage.
  • colledge — Obsolete form of college.
  • colleger — a member of a college
  • colleges — Plural form of college.
  • collegia — Ecclesiastical. college (def 11).
  • collegue — Misspelling of colleague.
  • collogue — to confer confidentially; intrigue or conspire
  • cologned — Perfumed with cologne.
  • comeling — (obsolete) A comer; (person) an arrival.
  • comingle — Alternative spelling of commingle.
  • congeals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congeal.
  • conglobe — to gather or form into a globe or ball
  • cool:gen — Advantage Gen
  • coolidge — (John) Calvin. 1872–1933, 30th president of the US (1923–29)
  • cringles — Plural form of cringle.
  • cudgeled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
  • cudgeler — One who beats with a cudgel.
  • cultigen — a species of plant that is known only as a cultivated form and did not originate from a wild type
  • dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
  • danegeld — the tax first levied in the late 9th century in Anglo-Saxon England to provide protection money for or to finance forces to oppose Viking invaders
  • danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
  • dead leg — temporary loss of sensation in the leg, caused by a blow to a muscle
  • dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
  • decalage — the difference between the angles of incidence of the upper and lower wings of a biplane: A biplane has positive decalage if the angle of incidence of the upper wing is greater than that of the lower wing and negative decalage when the lower wing has the greater angle.
  • decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
  • decalogy — A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
  • deck log — a log filled in by the officer of the watch at the end of each watch, giving details of weather, navigation, unusual happenings, etc.
  • defiling — Present participle of defile.
  • deglazed — Simple past tense and past participle of deglaze.
  • dekalogy — a series of ten related works
  • delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
  • delegacy — an elected standing committee at some British universities
  • delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
  • deleting — Present participle of delete.
  • deligate — (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
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