6-letter words containing c, l, e, n
- lancet — a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
- launce — sand lance.
- lectin — any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- lentic — pertaining to or living in still water.
- leucin — Dated form of leucine.
- leucon — a type of sponge having a thick body wall with a highly branched canal system leading into the spongocoel.
- lichen — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- lucent — shining.
- lucern — (obsolete) A lamp.
- lucine — A bivalve mollusk that typically has a rounded white shell with radial and concentric ridges, found in tropical and temperate seas.
- lucken — locked; shut
- lycine — betaine.
- mclean — John (1785-1861), US Supreme Court associate justice 1829-61. The US postmaster general 1823-29, he was appointed to the Court by President Jackson.
- neliac — Navy Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler. An Algol variant designed for numeric and logical computations and based on IAL. 1958-1959. Version: BC NELIAC.
- nicely — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- nickel — Chemistry. a hard, silvery-white, ductile and malleable metallic element, allied to iron and cobalt, not readily oxidized: used chiefly in alloys, in electroplating, and as a catalyst in organic synthesis. Symbol: Ni; atomic weight: 58.71; atomic number: 28; specific gravity: 8.9 at 20°C.
- nickle — Misspelling of nickel.
- nicole — a female given name: from Greek words meaning “victory” and “people.”.
- nuclei — plural of nucleus.
- nucule — (rare) A section of a compound fruit; a nutlet; a small nut.
- nuncle — uncle.
- pencel — a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
- pencil — a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
- plench — a tool combining pliers and wrench: used especially by astronauts.
- rancel — to search or rummage; ransack
- sclent — to move or lie on a slant.
- senlac — a hill in SE England: believed by some historians to have been the site of the Battle of Hastings, 1066.
- tencel — a fabric made from wood pulp cellulose, having a silky texture
- unclew — to unfurl (a sail) from the yardarm
- unlace — to loosen or undo the lacing or laces of (a pair of shoes, a corset, etc.).