8-letter words containing r, i, n, g
- cingular — ring-shaped; girdle-like
- circling — a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- 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.
- clerking — Present participle of clerk.
- clingier — Comparative form of clingy.
- coercing — Present participle of coerce.
- cofiring — combustion of two different types of fuel at the same time
- cognizer — a being that is able to cognize
- cohering — Present participle of cohere.
- coloring — The coloring of something is the color or colors that it is.
- congiary — (in ancient Rome) a gift from the emperor to the people or soldiers
- corkwing — a greenish or bluish European fish of the wrasse family, Ctenolabrus melops
- corpsing — Present participle of corpse.
- corrigan — Mairead [muh-reyd] /məˈreɪd/ (Show IPA), born 1944, Northern Irish peace activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1976.
- cosigner — a cosignatory
- coursing — Coursing is a sport in which rabbits or hares are hunted with dogs.
- courting — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- covering — A covering is a layer of something that protects or hides something else.
- cowering — to crouch, as in fear or shame.
- 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.
- creeping — (of a plant) having a stem that grows horizontally along the ground and throws out roots at intervals
- cresting — an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc
- cribbing — the action of one that cribs
- crimping — Compress (something) into small folds or ridges.
- cringing — servile; obsequious
- cringles — Plural form of cringle.
- crisping — Present participle of crisp.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- crocking — British Dialect. soot; smut.
- crofting — In Scotland, crofting is the activity of farming on small pieces of land.
- crooking — a bent or curved implement, piece, appendage, etc.; hook.
- crooning — a style of relaxed and seemingly effortless singing, particularly popular in the1930s and 1940s
- cropping — the trimming or masking of unwanted edges or areas of a negative or print
- crossing — A crossing is a journey by boat or ship to a place on the other side of a sea, river, or lake.