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8-letter words containing c, i, l, a

  • carlings — Plural form of carling.
  • carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
  • carniola — a region of N Slovenia: a former duchy and crownland of Austria (1335–1919); divided between Yugoslavia and Italy in 1919; part of Yugoslavia (1947–92)
  • carnival — A carnival is a public festival during which people play music and sometimes dance in the streets.
  • carol ii — 1893–1953, king of Romania (1930–40), who was deposed by the Iron Guard
  • carolina — a former English colony on the E coast of North America, first established in 1663: divided in 1729 into North and South Carolina, which are often referred to as the Carolinas
  • caroline — characteristic of or relating to Charles I or Charles II, kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the society over which they ruled, or their government
  • caroling — a song, especially of joy.
  • carpalia — any of the bones of the wrist.
  • carriole — cariole
  • castalia — a spring on Mount Parnassus: in ancient Greece sacred to Apollo and the Muses and believed to be a source of inspiration
  • castilho — Antonio Feliciano de [ahn-taw-n-yoo fuh-lees-yah-noo] /ɑ̃ˈtɔˈn yu fə lisˈyɑ nu/ (Show IPA), 1800–75, Portuguese poet.
  • castilla — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1797–1867, Peruvian general and statesman: president of Peru 1845–51 and 1855–62.
  • castillo — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Cánovas del Castillo del Rey) 1908–1984, Spanish fashion designer.
  • castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
  • cat line — A cat line is a thin cable which is used with other equipment to move small parts of a rig or drill string.
  • cat-lick — a quick wash
  • cat-tail — any tall, reedlike marsh plant of the genus Typha, especially T. latifolia, having long, sword-shaped leaves and dense, cylindrical clusters of minute brown flowers.
  • catholic — The Catholic Church is the branch of the Christian Church that accepts the Pope as its leader and is based in the Vatican in Rome.
  • catiline — Latin name Lucius Sergius Catilina. ?108–62 bc, Roman politician: organized an unsuccessful conspiracy against Cicero (63–62)
  • catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
  • cattails — Plural form of cattail.
  • caudicle — the stalk to which an orchid's pollen masses are attached
  • caudillo — (in Spanish-speaking countries) a military or political leader
  • caudling — Present participle of caudle.
  • caulicle — a small stalk or stem
  • caulking — to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
  • caulonia — a town in S Calabria, in S Italy: ruins of ancient Achaean colony.
  • cavalier — If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation.
  • cavelike — similar to or resembling a cave
  • caviling — Present participle of cavil.
  • cavilled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
  • caviller — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
  • cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
  • celeriac — a variety of celery, Apium graveolens rapaceum, with a large turnip-like root, used as a vegetable
  • celibacy — Celibacy is the state of being celibate.
  • celibate — Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
  • cephalic — of or relating to the head
  • cephalin — a phospholipid, similar to lecithin, that occurs in the nerve tissue and brain
  • cervical — Cervical means relating to the cervix.
  • chainlet — a small chain of hotels, shops, etc
  • chalcids — Plural form of chalcid.
  • chaldaic — an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea; a Chaldean
  • chaliced — (of plants) having cup-shaped flowers
  • chalices — Plural form of chalice.
  • chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
  • chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
  • chalonic — of or relating to a chalone
  • chamisal — a thicket or overgrowth of chamiso
  • chancily — In a chancy manner.
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