8-letter words containing c, l, a, s
- basilica — A basilica is a church which is rectangular in shape and has a rounded end.
- berascal — to accuse someone of being a rascal
- bescrawl — to cover with scrawls
- bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- cabalism — a mystical philosophical doctrine based on the doctrines of the cabala
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- cageless — Without a cage.
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- calabash — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- calathus — a vase-shaped basket represented in ancient Greek art, used as a symbol of fruitfulness
- calcspar — calcite
- calculus — Calculus is a branch of advanced mathematics which deals with variable quantities.
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calfless — (of a cow) having no calves
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- caliches — Plural form of caliche.
- calicoes — Plural form of calico.
- calipash — the greenish glutinous edible part of the turtle found next to the upper shell, considered a delicacy
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calisaya — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted
- calixtus — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- callisto — a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera. Zeus then set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major
- callosal — of or relating to the corpus callosum.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calluses — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calmness — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- calvados — a department of N France in the Basse-Normandie region. Capital: Caen. Pop: 659 893 (2003 est). Area: 5693 sq km (2198 sq miles)
- calypsos — Plural form of calypso.
- calzones — Plural form of calzone.
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- camelish — similar to a camel
- camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.