8-letter words containing g, e, n, i, c
- exacting — Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.
- exceding — Present participle of excede.
- exciding — Present participle of excide.
- excising — Present participle of excise.
- exciting — Causing great enthusiasm and eagerness.
- excusing — Present participle of excuse.
- execting — Present participle of exect.
- exigence — Exigency.
- exigency — An urgent need or demand.
- exogenic — Formed or occurring on the surface of the earth.
- faceting — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- felching — Present participle of felch.
- fescuing — Present participle of fescue.
- fetching — charming; captivating.
- flecking — a speck; a small bit: a fleck of dirt.
- fleecing — the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
- frecking — Present participle of freck.
- gangetic — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- generics — Plural form of generic.
- genetics — Biology. the science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment.
- genocide — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- genomics — the study of genomes.
- genseric — a.d. c390–477, king of the Vandals, conqueror in northern Africa and Italy.
- gentilic — Tribal or national.
- gentrice — gentility; high birth.
- geogonic — relating to geogony
- geoponic — of or relating to tillage or agriculture; agricultural.
- germanic — of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
- gerontic — geriatric.
- geulincx — Arnold, 1624?–69, Belgian philosopher.
- givenchy — Hubert de [y-ber duh] /üˈbɛr də/ (Show IPA), born 1927, French fashion designer.
- glycerin — glycerol.
- gneissic — a metamorphic rock, generally made up of bands that differ in color and composition, some bands being rich in feldspar and quartz, others rich in hornblende or mica.
- grinches — Plural form of grinch.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- guesclin — Bertrand du ?1320–80, French commander during the Hundred Years' War
- guidance — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- gynecium — gynoecium.
- gynecoid — of or like a woman.
- gynoecia — Plural form of gynoecium.
- heckling — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- hygienic — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- isogenic — (of organisms) having the same or closely similar genotypes.
- kerching — (onomatopoeia, informal, humorous) Said to indicate that someone is obtaining money, especially a comparatively large amount.
- ketching — Present participle of ketch.
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leeching — any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
- letching — a lecherous desire or craving.
- ligeance — Chiefly Law. the territory subject to a sovereign or liege lord.