8-letter words containing a, l, e
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- 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.
- d'albert — Eugen [German oi-geyn] /German ɔɪˈgeɪn/ (Show IPA), or Eugène [French œ-zhen] /French œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Francis Charles, 1864–1932, German-French pianist and composer, born in Scotland.
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- daedalic — an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
- daedalid — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Attica from the middle to the end of the 7th century b.c., characterized chiefly by the use of the black-figure style in painting and a narrative treatment of subject matter.
- daedalus — an Athenian architect and inventor who built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee the island
- dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
- daladier — Édouard (edwar). 1884–1970, French radical socialist statesman; premier of France (1933; 1934; 1938–40) and signatory of the Munich Pact (1938)
- dalcroze — Jaques-Dalcroze.
- dalesman — a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
- dalesmen — Plural form of dalesman.
- daliance — Obsolete spelling of dalliance.
- damnable — You use damnable to emphasize that you dislike or disapprove of something a great deal.
- 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.
- danegeld — the tax first levied in the late 9th century in Anglo-Saxon England to provide protection money for or to finance forces to oppose Viking invaders
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- danielle — a feminine name
- danville — city in S Va., near the N.C. border: pop. 48,000
- dapperly — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- dataller — a worker paid by the day