9-letter words containing a, c, l, i
- chilblain — Chilblains are painful red swellings which people sometimes get on their fingers or toes in cold weather.
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- chiliagon — a thousand-sided polygon
- chiliarch — (in ancient Greece and Rome) the leader or commanding officer of a thousand soldiers
- chillaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of chillax.
- chin ball — a device fastened under the chin of a bull to mark cows it has mounted
- china oil — a dark, molasseslike, aromatic, water-insoluble liquid having a warm, bitter taste, obtained from the leguminous tree, Myroxylon pereirae, of Central America: used in medicine, perfumery, and in the manufacture of chocolate.
- chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
- chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
- chirality — the configuration or handedness (left or right) of an asymmetric, optically active chemical compound
- chivalric — Chivalric means relating to or connected with the system of chivalry that was believed in and followed by medieval knights.
- chlamydia — Chlamydia is a sexually-transmitted disease.
- chloranil — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 6 Cl 4 O 2 , used chiefly as a fungicide and as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
- cholaemia — a toxic medical condition indicated by the presence of bile in the blood
- cholaemic — of or relating to cholaemia
- choleraic — relating to, like, or developing from cholera
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chronical — relating to or controlled by time
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- chrysalis — A chrysalis is a butterfly or moth in the stage between being a larva and an adult.
- cichlidae — the family of cichlid fish
- cigarillo — a small cigar often only slightly larger than a cigarette
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- ciliation — Lb biology Quality of having cilia.
- ciliolate — covered with minute hairs, as some plants
- cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- circuital — an act or instance of going or moving around.
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- circulars — Plural form of circular.
- circulary — (obsolete) circular; illogical.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- cisalpine — on this (the southern) side of the Alps, as viewed from Rome
- cisplatin — a cytotoxic drug that acts by preventing DNA replication and hence cell division, used in the treatment of tumours, esp of the ovary and testis
- cissexual — noting or relating to a person who is comfortable with having the physical characteristics of that person’s biological sex.
- city hall — The city hall is the building which a city council uses as its main offices.
- city plan — the developmental plan for a city or town arrived at through the process of city planning.
- civically — of or relating to a city; municipal: civic problems.
- civil day — day (def 3c).
- civil law — Civil law is the part of a country's set of laws which is concerned with the private affairs of citizens, for example marriage and property ownership, rather than with crime.
- civil war — A civil war is a war which is fought between different groups of people who live in the same country.
- civilians — Plural form of civilian.
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- cladistic — relating to the classification of species based on evolutionary ancestry
- cladodial — resembling a cladode
- clafoutis — a French baked pudding
- claiborne — a male given name.
- claimable — Able to be claimed.
- claimants — Plural form of claimant.