8-letter words containing a, l, c, e
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- cravable — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- cravenly — In a craven manner.
- crawlers — a baby's overalls; rompers
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- creakily — creaking or apt to creak: a creaky stairway.
- creamily — In a creamy manner.
- crevalle — a silver coloured fish, Caranx hippos of the Carangidae or jack family native to western Atlantic areas
- cribella — Plural form of cribellum.
- crumenal — a purse
- cue ball — the ball struck by the cue, as distinguished from the object balls
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- cultrate — shaped like a knife blade
- cumulate — to accumulate
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- cure-all — A cure-all is something that is believed, usually wrongly, to be able to solve all the problems someone or something has, or to cure a wide range of illnesses.
- cuttable — capable of being cut
- cyclable — fit or designed for bicycle riding: a cyclable road.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- cyclamen — A cyclamen is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers.
- cyclecar — a light, open-air automobile with three or four wheels
- cycleway — A cycleway is a road, route, or path for cyclists.
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- czarlike — Alternative spelling of tsarlike.
- daedalic — an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
- dalcroze — Jaques-Dalcroze.
- daliance — Obsolete spelling of dalliance.
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- dancerly — characteristic of or moving like a dancer; having the skills or physique of a dancer.
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- decalage — the difference between the angles of incidence of the upper and lower wings of a biplane: A biplane has positive decalage if the angle of incidence of the upper wing is greater than that of the lower wing and negative decalage when the lower wing has the greater angle.
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decalled — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decalogy — A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- decaplet — One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
- decidual — the endometrium of a pregnant uterus that in many of the higher mammals is cast off at parturition.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declared — stated openly, officially, or formally
- declarer — a person who declares
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- declasse — having lost social standing or status
- declawed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaw.
- declinal — the action of politely refusing or declining
- decretal — a papal edict on doctrine or church law
- deicidal — a person who kills a god.