8-letter words containing g, r, a, c
- 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.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curraghs — Plural form of curragh.
- cutgrass — the general name for any grass of the genus Leersia, native to the Americas and Eurasia
- decagram — dekagram
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- dogcarts — Plural form of dogcart.
- echogram — a record produced by the action of an echograph.
- eggcrate — of or resembling a horizontal construction divided by vertical partitions into cell-like areas, used especially for directing downward rays of overhead light: eggcrate ceiling fixtures.
- encharge — (obsolete, transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
- ergastic — consisting of the non-living by-products of protoplasmic activity
- escargot — A snail, especially as an item on a menu.
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- fracting — Alternative form of fracking.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gaiseric — Genseric.
- garcinia — Mangosteen (of the genus Garcinia).
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gearcase — a protective casing for the gear mechanism of a vehicle or piece of machinery
- genearch — a chief of a family or tribe.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- germanic — of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
- gimcrack — a showy, useless trifle; gewgaw.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glutaric — Of or pertaining to glutaric acid or its derivatives.
- glyceria — any aquatic grass species in the genus Glyceria
- gracchus — Gaius Sempronius [gey-uh s sem-proh-nee-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs sɛmˈproʊ ni əs/ (Show IPA), 153–121 b.c, and his brother, Tiberius Sempronius [tahy-beer-ee-uh s] /taɪˈbɪər i əs/ (Show IPA) 163–133 b.c., Roman reformers and orators.
- graceful — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- gracilis — a muscle in the inner side of the thigh, the action of which assists in drawing the legs inward and in bending the knee.
- gracioso — a buffoon or clown in Spanish comedy.