9-letter words containing c, e, t, o, l
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
- chocolate — Chocolate is a sweet hard food made from cocoa beans. It is usually brown in colour and is eaten as a sweet.
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- cholelith — a stone formed in the gall bladder by the accumulation of bile constituents
- choluteca — a city in S Honduras.
- ciliolate — covered with minute hairs, as some plants
- claremont — a town in SW California.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- clean out — If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clodpated — stupid
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
- close-set — (esp of the eyes) positioned close together
- closeouts — Plural form of closeout.
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- closeting — Present participle of closet.
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clottered — Simple past tense and past participle of clotter.
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- clouterly — clumsy
- co-relate — to correlate.
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- cobaltite — a rare silvery-white mineral consisting of cobalt arsenic sulphide in cubic crystalline form: a major ore of cobalt, used in ceramics. Formula: CoAsS
- coccolite — a variety of pyroxene
- cochleate — shaped like a snail's shell; spirally twisted
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- coculture — to culture together
- coelomata — animals possessing a coelom
- coelomate — an animal that possesses a coelom
- coelostat — an astronomical instrument consisting of a plane mirror mounted parallel to the earth's axis and rotated about this axis once every two days so that light from a celestial body, esp the sun, is reflected onto a second mirror, which reflects the beam into a telescope
- coeternal — existing together eternally
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- cogitable — conceivable
- cognately — In a way that is cognate.
- cold feet — loss or lack of courage or confidence
- cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
- cold tone — a bluish or greenish tinge in a black-and-white print.
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- colectivo — a small public bus.
- colectomy — surgical removal of part or all of the colon
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line
- collative — involving collation