9-letter words containing a, c, l, e
- creatural — of, relating to, or of the nature of a creature.
- crenelate — to furnish with battlements or crenels, or with squared notches
- crenulate — having a margin very finely notched with rounded projections, as certain leaves
- cribellar — of or relating to the cribellum of a spider
- criterial — of or relating to criteria
- crossable — able to be crossed
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cubanelle — a long thin variety of sweet pepper
- cucullate — shaped like a hood or having a hoodlike part
- cuddlable — Able to be cuddled.
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curlpaper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtailer — One who curtails.
- curtalaxe — a cutlass
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
- cuticulae — Plural form of cuticula.
- cutlasses — Plural form of cutlass.
- cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.
- cyclamate — a salt or ester of cyclamic acid. Certain of the salts have a very sweet taste and were formerly used as food additives and sugar substitutes
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
- cyclopean — of, relating to, or resembling the Cyclops
- cyllenian — of or relating to Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, Greece, or to the god Hermes, reputed to have been born there.
- dalliance — If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- danceable — appropriate for or conducive to dancing: danceable music.
- dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- day-clean — the time after first dawn when the sun begins to shine; clear daybreak
- de lancey — James, 1703–60, American jurist and politician in New York.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- decagonal — Shaped like a decagon.
- decalcify — to remove calcium or lime from (bones, teeth, etc)
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decalogue — Ten Commandments
- decapodal — (zoology) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet.