7-letter words containing c, i, l
- calorie — Calories are units used to measure the energy value of food. People who are on diets try to eat food that does not contain many calories.
- calpain — any of various enzymes in mammals and other organisms that are involved in the proteolysis of endogenous proteins and are regulated by the concentration of calcium ions
- calving — to give birth to a calf: The cow is expected to calve tomorrow.
- calvino — Italo. 1923–85, Italian novelist and short-story writer. His works include Our Ancestors (1960) and Invisible Cities (1972)
- cambial — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- camelid — of or relating to camels
- camilla — Roman Legend. a woman warrior who fought on the side of Turnus against Aeneas.
- camille — a feminine name
- campily — in a campy manner
- cannily — in a canny manner
- cannoli — a Sicilian pudding of pasta shells filled with sweetened ricotta
- cantily — In a canty manner.
- capelin — a small marine food fish, Mallotus villosus, occurring in northern and Arctic seas: family Osmeridae (smelts)
- capital — Capital is a large sum of money which you use to start a business, or which you invest in order to make more money.
- capitol — A capitol is a government building in which a state legislature meets.
- caplike — Resembling a cap.
- cardial — (rare) Relating to the heart.
- carinal — resembling or relating to a carina
- cariole — a small open two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle
- carline — a Eurasian thistle-like plant, Carlina vulgaris, having spiny leaves and flower heads surrounded by raylike whitish bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
- carling — a fore-and-aft beam in a vessel, used for supporting the deck, esp around a hatchway or other opening
- carlish — churlish or coarse
- carlist — (in Spain) a supporter of Don Carlos or his descendants as the rightful kings of Spain
- carlita — a female given name.
- castile — a former kingdom comprising most of modern Spain: originally part of León, it became an independent kingdom in the 10th century and united with Aragon (1469), the first step in the formation of the Spanish state
- catgirl — (chiefly, Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who has a cat's ears, tail or other feline characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.
- catlike — like a cat or cat's; noiseless, stealthy, etc.
- catling — a long double-edged surgical knife for amputations
- catmill — An apparatus with several beams protruding from a central rotating pole, used to train fighting dogs by having them chase a cat or other small animal in circles.
- cattail — any of a genus (Typha) of the cattail family with reedlike leaves and long, brown, fuzzy, cylindrical flower spikes; esp., either of two species (T. latifolia and T. angustifolia) whose long, flat leaves are used in making baskets and matting
- cattily — In a catty manner.
- cauline — relating to or growing from a plant stem
- caviled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
- caviler — a person who cavils
- cc:mail — (tool, product) Commercial electronic mail software by Lotus Corporation for Microsoft Windows.
- cecilia — Saint. died ?230 ad, Roman martyr; patron saint of music. Feast day: Nov 22
- cedilla — A cedilla is a symbol that is written under the letter 'c' in French, Portuguese, and some other languages to show that you pronounce it like a letter 's' rather than like a letter 'k'. It is written ç.
- ceilidh — A ceilidh is an informal entertainment, especially in Scotland or Ireland, at which there is folk music, singing, and dancing.
- ceiling — A ceiling is the horizontal surface that forms the top part or roof inside a room.
- celiacs — Plural form of celiac.
- celling — the production and formation of cells
- cellini — Benvenuto (benveˈnuːto). 1500–71, Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and engraver, noted also for his autobiography
- cellist — A cellist is someone who plays the cello.
- cellsim — (application) A program for modelling populations of biological cells.
- celosia — any of several species (genus Celosia) of the amaranth family, of annual garden plants with minute, brilliant red or yellow flowers in large clusters; cockscomb
- celsius — Celsius is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
- cembali — Irregular plural form of cembalo.
- centile — (not in technical use) a percentile.
- cernlib — (library) The CERN Program Library.
- cerrial — of or relating to the cerris tree