8-letter words containing g, r, a, n, c
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- 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.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- encharge — (obsolete, transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
- 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.
- garcinia — Mangosteen (of the genus Garcinia).
- genearch — a chief of a family or tribe.
- germanic — of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- granitic — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- grenache — a variety of grape used in winemaking, especially for table wines in the Rhône Valley of France and for a type of rosé in California.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- gynarchy — government by women.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- neckgear — any form of clothing or apparel worn around the neck
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- oracling — Present participle of oracle.
- organics — Plural form of organic.
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- prancing — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- racinage — decorative treatment of leather with colors and acids to produce a branchlike effect.
- rancagua — a city in central Chile.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- reacting — to act or perform again.
- reagency — the quality or condition of being a reagent
- reaginic — relating to or caused by a reagin, or functioning as a reagin
- recaning — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- relacing — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- scarfing — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- scarring — a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- scraping — an act or instance of scraping.
- tracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.