8-letter words containing g, r, a, i, n
- charting — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- cingular — ring-shaped; girdle-like
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- clarting — Present participle of clart.
- clearing — A clearing is a small area in a forest where there are no trees or bushes.
- congiary — (in ancient Rome) a gift from the emperor to the people or soldiers
- corrigan — Mairead [muh-reyd] /məˈreɪd/ (Show IPA), born 1944, Northern Irish peace activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1976.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- dairying — the business of producing, processing, and selling dairy products
- daringly — In a daring manner; boldly; courageously; fearlessly; impudently.
- darkling — in the dark or night
- darlings — Plural form of darling.
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dragging — marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- draining — Present participle of drain.
- dramming — Measurements. a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams). 1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- dwarfing — Present participle of dwarf.
- earnings — money earned; wages; profits.
- earrings — Plural form of earring.
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- enargite — a sulphide of copper and arsenic