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8-Letter Words (77):

cabining (13 points)

Cabin

C·3+A·1+B·3+I·1+N·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

cackling (17 points)

Sound from a witch

Hen-like laughter

Henhouse noise

C·3+A·1+C·3+K·5+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 17 pts

caddying (16 points)

Aiding a golfer, in a way

A bounder, passing on helping out with the clubs

Rotter longing to be helping on golf course

C·3+A·1+D·2+D·2+Y·4+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 16 pts

cageling (12 points)

Bird that's trapped fish behind bars

C·3+A·1+G·2+E·1+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 12 pts

cajoling (18 points)

Coaxing, inveigling

Sweet-talking

Gently coaxing

C·3+A·1+J·8+O·1+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 18 pts

calquing (20 points)

Calque

C·3+A·1+L·1+Q·10+U·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 20 pts

cameoing (13 points)

Cameo

C·3+A·1+M·3+E·1+O·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

canaling (11 points)

Canal

C·3+A·1+N·1+A·1+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

candling (12 points)

Candle

C·3+A·1+N·1+D·2+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 12 pts

candying (15 points)

Candy

C·3+A·1+N·1+D·2+Y·4+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

canoeing (11 points)

Challenging the rapids, maybe

Using a kayak

Olympics event since 1936

C·3+A·1+N·1+O·1+E·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

capering (13 points)

Frisky South African clique (wordplay)

Point at band dancing

Jumping around

C·3+A·1+P·3+E·1+R·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

caprifig (16 points)

A European tree

C·3+A·1+P·3+R·1+I·1+F·4+I·1+G·2 = 16 pts

caroling (11 points)

Xmas Eve harmony.

December activity

Yuletide activity

C·3+A·1+R·1+O·1+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

caroming (13 points)

Billiards technique

Billiards technique.

C·3+A·1+R·1+O·1+M·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

carrying (14 points)

Equipped with a gun

Kind of charges

Transporting - pregnant

C·3+A·1+R·1+R·1+Y·4+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

castling (11 points)

Chess move involving the king and rook

Movement on board moulding left inside

Chess strategem

C·3+A·1+S·1+T·1+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

catching (16 points)

Understanding it's infectious

Jaw having dropped, getting zip stuck

Easily getting sick of it

C·3+A·1+T·1+C·3+H·4+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 16 pts

catering (11 points)

Providing party food.

Processed grain etc, providing food

Job of some party workers

C·3+A·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

caulking (15 points)

Watertight material

C·3+A·1+U·1+L·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

caviling (14 points)

Cavil

C·3+A·1+V·4+I·1+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

chaffing (20 points)

Irritating, having extra fellow teasing

What a chaffinch might shortly be up to for the fun of it

Mocking and following this person arrested by a lot of coppers

C·3+H·4+A·1+F·4+F·4+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 20 pts

chaining (14 points)

What one might be doing with the links

Working with links

Placing restraints on

C·3+H·4+A·1+I·1+N·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

chairing (14 points)

Acting as conference head

Presiding over

C·3+H·4+A·1+I·1+R·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

chalking (18 points)

Paint aging process

C·3+H·4+A·1+L·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 18 pts

champing (18 points)

Champ

C·3+H·4+A·1+M·3+P·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 18 pts

chancing (16 points)

Taking a risk

Taking a risk on

C·3+H·4+A·1+N·1+C·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 16 pts

changing (15 points)

Evolution of c-capital punishment

In a state of flux

What makes daughter a palace attraction (wordplay)

C·3+H·4+A·1+N·1+G·2+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

chanting (14 points)

Singing, in a way

Responsive singing.

C·3+H·4+A·1+N·1+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

chapping (18 points)

Chap

C·3+H·4+A·1+P·3+P·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 18 pts

charging (15 points)

Entrusting (with a task)

Asking as a price, running violently, indicting

Accusing

C·3+H·4+A·1+R·1+G·2+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

charking (18 points)

Chark

C·3+H·4+A·1+R·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 18 pts

charming (16 points)

Prince able to spell (wordplay)

Cinderella's husband (wordplay)

Dream prince (wordplay)

C·3+H·4+A·1+R·1+M·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 16 pts

charring (14 points)

Rich gran (anagram)

Cleaning the fish round here

Cleaning the house and getting black (wordplay)

C·3+H·4+A·1+R·1+R·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

charting (14 points)

Much of a nurse's work

Explorer's activity

C·3+H·4+A·1+R·1+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

chatting (14 points)

Activity at bees or soirees

Casually talking

Talking of getting a metal helmet into this

C·3+H·4+A·1+T·1+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

cheating (14 points)

Using a crib, perhaps

Acting dishonestly to gain advantage

Not fairly warming at last

C·3+H·4+E·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

chugalug (15 points)

Shotgun a beer, say

Guzzle without pause

Consume a drink in one gulp

C·3+H·4+U·1+G·2+A·1+L·1+U·1+G·2 = 15 pts

clacking (17 points)

Clack

C·3+L·1+A·1+C·3+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 17 pts

cladding (13 points)

Protective covering on a building

Outside wall covering

Building covering

C·3+L·1+A·1+D·2+D·2+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

clagging (13 points)

Clag

C·3+L·1+A·1+G·2+G·2+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

claiming (13 points)

Kind of race

Kind of horse race

Stick around goal protesting over a point perhaps

C·3+L·1+A·1+I·1+M·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

clamming (15 points)

Low-tide activity

C·3+L·1+A·1+M·3+M·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

clamping (15 points)

Holding outdoor activity around lake

Wood-shop safety measure

Fastening tightly.

C·3+L·1+A·1+M·3+P·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

clanging (12 points)

Like Sunday church bells

Making metallic ring

Like a trolley

C·3+L·1+A·1+N·1+G·2+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 12 pts

clanking (15 points)

The sound of the armour of the 4 down of the tribe

C·3+L·1+A·1+N·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

clapping (15 points)

Making some noise, say

On approval sound

Ovation for leading car overtaking

C·3+L·1+A·1+P·3+P·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

clashing (14 points)

Sharply and harshly discordant

Realising about fifty may be ill-matched

Striking (cymbals)

C·3+L·1+A·1+S·1+H·4+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

clasping (13 points)

Hugging serpent in embrace

Gripping

Holding

C·3+L·1+A·1+S·1+P·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

classing (11 points)

Grouping.

C·3+L·1+A·1+S·1+S·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

cleaning (11 points)

Caught bending, doing housework perhaps

Cold and bent from housework (wordplay)

Dry work (wordplay)

C·3+L·1+E·1+A·1+N·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

clearing (11 points)

Bank found in forest (wordplay)

Dell perhaps, making a profit

Open space (in forest)

C·3+L·1+E·1+A·1+R·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

cleating (11 points)

Cleat

C·3+L·1+E·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

cleaving (14 points)

Splitting, roughly splitting (wordplay)

Clinging to church leader before departure

Splitting.

C·3+L·1+E·1+A·1+V·4+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

cloaking (15 points)

Cloak

C·3+L·1+O·1+A·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

coaching (16 points)

Sports instructing or training

Training, teaching

Feeling pain under military leader giving instruction

C·3+O·1+A·1+C·3+H·4+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 16 pts

coacting (13 points)

Coact

C·3+O·1+A·1+C·3+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

coapting (13 points)

Coapt

C·3+O·1+A·1+P·3+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

coasting (11 points)

Resting on one's laurels

Agnostic (anagram) - moving easily

Agnostic (anagram)

C·3+O·1+A·1+S·1+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

comaking (17 points)

Comake

C·3+O·1+M·3+A·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 17 pts

congaing (12 points)

Tripping the light fantastic, in a way

Participating in a certain line dance

Trick to appreciate good dancing

C·3+O·1+N·1+G·2+A·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 12 pts

craaling (11 points)

Craal

C·3+R·1+A·1+A·1+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

crabbing (15 points)

Setting traps in the Chesapeake, say

Defined as front wheels out of line with rear

C·3+R·1+A·1+B·3+B·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

cracking (17 points)

Solving very fast (wordplay)

Super solving!

Excellent solving

C·3+R·1+A·1+C·3+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 17 pts

cradling (12 points)

Cradle

C·3+R·1+A·1+D·2+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 12 pts

crafting (14 points)

Artfully making by hand

C·3+R·1+A·1+F·4+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

cramming (15 points)

Stuffing - studying hard

C·3+R·1+A·1+M·3+M·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

cramping (15 points)

Cause of some charley horses

Arnold's leg woe, or a speed-solver's wrist woe (wordplay)

C·3+R·1+A·1+M·3+P·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

cranking (15 points)

Starting an ancient auto

C·3+R·1+A·1+N·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

crapping (15 points)

Crap

C·3+R·1+A·1+P·3+P·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

crashing (14 points)

Char's gin (anagram)

Collapsing suddenly, as the stock market

Total going down

C·3+R·1+A·1+S·1+H·4+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

crawling (14 points)

Action of baby, naked, to hug clothes

Moving along the ground slowly

Creeping slowly along the ground

C·3+R·1+A·1+W·4+L·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 14 pts

creaking (15 points)

Giving away an intruder, maybe

Sounding like a loose floorboard

Sounding like old floor boards

C·3+R·1+E·1+A·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

creaming (13 points)

Defeating soundly

C·3+R·1+E·1+A·1+M·3+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 13 pts

creasing (11 points)

Making folds

Is the crescendo getting slack in the fold (wordplay)

Folding

C·3+R·1+E·1+A·1+S·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

creating (11 points)

Establishing credit, being a consumer

Bringing into being

Bringing into existence

C·3+R·1+E·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 11 pts

croaking (15 points)

Sounding like a frog

Making frog noise

Going west and not really caring - OK (wordplay)

C·3+R·1+O·1+A·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2 = 15 pts

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Your search: your search in dictionary American. Results: 77.

Refine to C+: CA CB CC CD CE CF CG CH CI CJ CK CL CM CN CO CP CQ CR CS CT CU CV CW CX CY CZ

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Ending with:

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