11-letter words containing a, l, c, e
- clean up on — to defeat; beat
- cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- cleanhanded — free from guilt
- cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
- cleanliness — Cleanliness is the degree to which people keep themselves and their surroundings clean.
- cleanshaven — having all the hairs shaved off
- clear round — an instance of a horse and rider clearing all barriers without making any mistakes
- clear water — a city in W Florida.
- clearheaded — having or indicating a clear mind; lucid; unconfused
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- cleistogamy — self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
- cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
- clericalism — a policy of upholding the power of the clergy
- clericalist — Of or pertaining to clericalism.
- clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- client base — A business's client base is the same as its customer base.
- clientelage — (dated) clientele; customers or patrons.
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- climacteric — a critical event or period
- climategate — the scandal surrounding the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit whose researchers were accused of manipulating statistics on climate change to make global warming appear less of a threat
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- cloisonnage — cloisonné work
- clorazepate — a benzodiazepine, C 16 H 13 ClN 2 O 4 , used in the treatment of chronic anxiety states and as an adjunct in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
- close brace — right brace
- close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
- close reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- close shave — a narrow escape
- closed game — a relatively complex game involving closed ranks and files and permitting only nontactical positional manoeuvring
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloth-eared — deaf
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- co-relation — correlation
- coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
- coal cellar — an underground room used for the storage of coal
- coal cutter — a machine for undercutting a coal seam
- coal heaver — a workman who moves coal
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- coalescence — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
- coalignment — Alignment together.
- coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
- coatesville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
- cocelebrant — One of two or more celebrants involved with the same occasion.