8-letter words containing c, a, r, l, i
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
- picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
- pictural — a picture
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- proclaim — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- rachilla — a small or secondary rachis, as the axis of a spikelet in a grass inflorescence.
- racially — of or relating to the social construct of race: racial diversity; racial stereotypes.
- radcliff — a city in central Kentucky.
- railcard — pre-paid pass for train travel
- rancidly — in a rancid manner
- re-claim — to claim or demand the return or restoration of, as a right, possession, etc.
- receival — the act of receiving or state of being received; receipt
- relacing — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- replicar — a custom-made or individually produced automobile whose body is a copy of a vintage or classic automobile.
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- richland — a city in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: residential and administrative quarters for the Hanford Works. Compare Hanford (def 2).
- rocaille — Fine Arts. any of the fantastic ornamental, often asymmetrical, combinations characteristic of the Rococo period, consisting of rock, shell, and plant forms combined with artificial forms, esp C -curves.
- rubrical — reddish; marked with red.
- rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- scargill — Arthur. born 1938, British trades union leader; president of the National Union of Mineworkers (1982–2002). He led the miners in a long and bitter strike (1984–85), but failed to prevent pit closures
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- tailrace — the race, flume, or channel leading away from a waterwheel or the like.
- tractile — capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
- tragical — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
- trifocal — Optics. having three foci.
- tritical — trite or hackneyed
- tropical — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- turrical — of, relating to, or resembling a turret.
- variceal — of or relating to a varix
- vertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- vicarial — of or relating to a vicar.
- victrola — a gramophone
- visceral — of or relating to the viscera.
- vortical — of or relating to a vortex.
- wildcard — (computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
- zircaloy — any of various alloys containing about 98% zirconium, 1.5% tin, etc., that are resistant to corrosion and high temperatures and are used to contain fuel in nuclear reactors, etc.