10-letter words containing g, r, i, n, a
- carrington — Dora, known as Carrington. 1893–1932, British painter, engraver, and letter writer; a member of the Bloomsbury Group
- cartooning — a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
- cashiering — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cassegrain — of an arrangement of mirrors, lenses, etc. used in reflecting telescopes and microwave antennas, having its focus or transmission point near or behind the center of the main mirror
- castrating — Present participle of castrate.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- centigrade — Centigrade is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
- centigrams — Plural form of centigram.
- chaffering — Present participle of chaffer.
- chagrining — Present participle of chagrin.
- chagrinned — a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
- chain gear — a gear assembly in which motion is transmitted by means of a chain.
- chambering — a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
- chamfering — Present participle of chamfer.
- chandigarh — a city and Union Territory of N India, joint capital of the Punjab and Haryana: modern city planned in the 1950s by Le Corbusier. Pop: 808 796 (2001), of city; 900 414 (2001), of union territory. Area (of union territory): 114 sq km (44 sq miles)
- charmingly — In a charming manner.
- chartering — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- chattering — rapid and continuous talk
- cheddaring — The stage of manufacturing Cheddar cheese and similar cheeses where the curd is cut into small pieces, often cubes, to drain the whey before being stacked and turned.
- chinagraph — a coloured pencil used for writing on china, glass, etc
- cinemagoer — a person who attends the cinema
- clambering — of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- clarifying — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- coarsening — Present participle of coarsen.
- corigliano — John Paul, born 1938, U.S. composer.
- coronating — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- corralling — an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- costarring — Present participle of costar.
- cracklings — Plural form of crackling.
- cragginess — The state of being craggy.
- craniology — the branch of science concerned with the shape and size of the human skull, esp with reference to variations between different races
- crashingly — extremely; exceedingly
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- cruciating — Present participle of cruciate.
- curtailing — Present participle of curtail.
- curtaining — Present participle of curtain.
- daringness — The state or quality of being daring.
- darjeeling — a town in NE India, in West Bengal in the Himalayas, at an altitude of about 2250 m (7500 ft). Pop: 107 530 (2001)
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- dating bar — singles bar.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- defragging — Present participle of defrag.