8-letter words containing c, a, l, e
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- barnacle — Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats.
- bascules — Plural form of bascule.
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- becalmed — If a sailing ship is becalmed, it is unable to move because there is no wind.
- bechamel — a basic white sauce made of milk, butter, flour, and, sometimes, cream
- beclamor — clamour excessively
- berascal — to accuse someone of being a rascal
- bescrawl — to cover with scrawls
- biacetyl — a liquid with a strong, butter-like odour
- binnacle — a housing for a ship's compass
- bioclean — free from harmful bacteria
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackett — Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron. 1897–1974, English physicist, noted for his work on cosmic radiation and his discovery of the positron. Nobel prize for physics 1948
- blackice — (software, security) A commercial firewall and intrusion detection system.
- blackleg — a person who acts against the interests of a trade union, as by continuing to work during a strike or taking over a striker's job
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- blancher — someone who blanches
- bleached — made lighter in colour
- bleacher — Usually, bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- blueback — any of several species of fish with a blue colouring
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- bluejack — a species of oak, Quercus incana, the leaves of which have a blue tinge
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- bootlace — A bootlace is a long thin cord which is used to fasten a boot.
- bracelet — A bracelet is a chain or band, usually made of metal, which you wear around your wrist as jewellery.
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- bractlet — a small or secondary bract at the base of a flower
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- bx cable — a cable consisting of wires contained in a flexible metal tubing, used chiefly in wiring buildings and in supplying electric power to equipment.
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- caballer — a person who cabals
- cable tv — a television system in which a high antenna and one or more dish antennas receive signals from distant and local stations, electronic satellite relays, etc. and transmit them by direct cable to the receivers of persons subscribing to the system
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- caecally — with relation to the caecum
- caerleon — a town in SE Wales, in Newport county borough on the River Usk: traditionally the seat of King Arthur's court. Pop: 9392 (2001)
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- cageless — Without a cage.
- cagelike — resembling a cage