7-letter words containing c, e, l
- declaim — If you declaim, you speak dramatically, as if you were acting in a theatre.
- declare — If you declare that something is true, you say that it is true in a firm, deliberate way. You can also declare an attitude or intention.
- declass — to lower in social status or position; degrade
- decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
- declive — declivous.
- decolor — to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
- decrial — the act of decrying; noisy censure.
- decuple — to increase by ten times
- deflect — If you deflect something that is moving, you make it go in a slightly different direction, for example by hitting or blocking it.
- delicia — a female given name.
- delicts — Plural form of delict.
- delphic — of or relating to Delphi or its oracle or temple
- deltaic — pertaining to or like a delta.
- descale — to remove the hard deposit formed by chemicals in water from (a kettle, pipe, etc)
- dewclaw — a nonfunctional claw in dogs; the rudimentary first digit
- dialect — A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area.
- docible — Easily taught or managed; teachable.
- ductile — (of a metal) able to be drawn out into a thin wire.
- ductule — a small duct.
- dulcite — a sweet substance, called Madagascar manna in its unrefined condition and resembling mannite, that comes from several plants
- e. coli — Escherichia coli.
- earlock — a lock of hair worn near or in front of the ear.
- ecbolic — Medicine/Medical. promoting labor by increasing uterine contractions.
- eccles. — a book of the Bible. Abbreviation: Eccl., Eccles.
- echelle — relating to a type of optical grating that splits light into different beams that move in different directions
- echelon — a level of command, authority, or rank: After years of service, she is now in the upper echelon of city officials. Synonyms: place, rank, hierarchy, authority, grade, office; row, tier, rung; social standing, position, class, standing.
- eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- eclogue — a pastoral poem, often in dialogue form.
- eclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of eclose.
- ecolect — A language variety unique to a household.
- ecology — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
- ectypal — a reproduction; copy (opposed to prototype).
- ecuelle — a covered soup bowl with two handles
- edictal — Of, pertaining to, or derived from edicts.
- edicule — aedicule.
- ehrlich — Paul (paul). 1854–1915, German bacteriologist, noted for his pioneering work in immunology and chemotherapy and for his discovery of a remedy for syphilis: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1908
- eichler — August Wilhelm (ˈɑʊɡʊst ˈvilhɛlm). 1839–87, German botanist: devised the system on which modern plant classification is based
- eidolic — relating to an eidolon
- elastic — (of an object or material) able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contraction, dilatation, or distortion.
- eleatic — denoting or relating to a school of philosophy founded in Elea in Greece in the 6th century bc by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. It held that one pure immutable Being is the only object of knowledge and that information obtained by the senses is illusory
- elected — Simple past tense and past participle of elect.
- electee — a person who is elected
- elector — A person who has the right to vote in an election.
- electra — the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She persuaded her brother Orestes to avenge their father by killing his murderess Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus
- electre — (obsolete) electrum, amber (alloy of gold and silver).
- electro — A style of dance music with a fast beat and synthesized backing track.
- elegiac — (especially of a work of art) having a mournful quality.
- elf-cup — any of various cup-shaped ascomycetous fungi of the order Pezizales, often strikingly coloured, such as the orange-peel elf-cup (Aleuria aurantia), which is bright orange inside and dirty white outside, and the scarlet elf-cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea)
- elflock — (now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.
- elicits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elicit.