9-letter words containing c, l, e, a
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- ice plant — a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, native to the Mediterranean region, having fleshy leaves that are covered with glistening vesicles and are sometimes eaten as greens.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- icelandic — of or relating to Iceland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- identical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- ileocecal — of, relating to, or involving the ileum and cecum.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- immanacle — to tie with fetters
- impacable — (obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- implicate — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- inbalance — Alternative spelling of imbalance.
- incapable — not capable.
- incitable — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- inclimate — Misspelling of inclement.
- inculcate — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- indexical — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- inelastic — not elastic; lacking flexibility or resilience; unyielding.
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- interclan — a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the Mackenzie clan.
- interlace — progressive coding
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- italicise — to print in italic type.
- italicize — to print in italic type.
- jacksmelt — a large silversides, Atherinopsis californiensis, found along the coast of California, that grows to a length of 22 inches (55 cm).
- jail cell — a small room in a jail where a prisoner is kept
- jane cowl — Jane, 1884–1950, U.S. actress and playwright.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- jet black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
- jet-black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- la chaise — Père François d'Aix de [frahn-swa de duh] /frɑ̃ˈswa dɛ də/ (Show IPA), 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.
- la crosse — a city in W Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River.
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- lace card — (Obsolete) A punched card with all holes punched (also called a "whoopee card" or "ventilator card"). Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism. Card punches could also jam trying to produce these things owing to power-supply problems. When some practical joker fed a lace card through the reader, you needed to clear the jam with a "card knife" - which you used on the joker first.