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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.
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