8-letter words containing g, a, c
- corsages — Plural form of corsage.
- cosgrave — Liam (ˈliːəm). born 1920, Irish statesman; prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1973–77)
- cottager — a person who lives in a cottage
- cottages — Plural form of cottage.
- cottagey — of or resembling a cottage
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courages — the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
- coverage — The coverage of something in the news is the reporting of it.
- cowgrass — the common name for Trefolium medium, a species of Trefoil; also applied to the commonly cultivated form of red clover
- coxalgia — pain in the hip joint
- cozenage — the practice of cozening.
- crabbing — Informal. an ill-tempered or grouchy person.
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- cradling — a framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- cragfast — stranded or stuck on a crag
- craggily — full of crags.
- cragsman — a rock climber
- cragsmen — Plural form of cragsman.
- cramming — intensive study, esp in order to pass an exam
- cramping — cramp iron.
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- crannogs — Plural form of crannog.
- crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- cravings — great or eager desire; yearning.
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creasing — Present participle of crease.
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creepage — a slow and gradual movement
- cribbage — a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- cs (gas) — a powerful tear gas in the form of an aerosol, C10H5ClN2, with the odor of pepper, used by police and the military, esp. to control riots
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curraghs — Plural form of curragh.
- cutglass — Made of cut glass.
- cutgrass — the general name for any grass of the genus Leersia, native to the Americas and Eurasia
- cyanogen — an extremely poisonous colourless flammable gas with an almond-like odour: has been used in chemical warfare. Formula: (CN)2
- cygnus a — a strong radio source in the constellation Cygnus associated with a distant peculiar galaxy.
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- decagram — dekagram
- 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.
- decating — a finishing process for making fabric more lustrous, for improving the tactile quality of the nap, and for setting the material to reduce shrinkage.
- decaying — rotting as a result of bacterial, fungal, or chemical action; decomposing
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram