11-letter words containing c, l, e
- cloud cover — the state of the sky when it is covered with cloud
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cloudlessly — Without clouds.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- clove hitch — a knot or hitch used for securing a rope to a spar, post, or larger rope
- cloven foot — a foot divided by a cleft, as in the ox, deer, and sheep
- cloven hoof — Animals that have cloven hooves have feet that are divided into two parts. Cows, sheep, and goats have cloven hooves.
- clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
- club member — a person who is a member of a club
- club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
- cluster cup — aecium.
- cluster fly — a dipterous fly, Pollenia rudis, that tends to gather in large numbers in attics in the autumn: family Calliphoridae. The larvae are parasitic in earthworms
- cluster leg — a leg having the form of a cluster of columns or shafts.
- co-relation — correlation
- coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
- coal cellar — an underground room used for the storage of coal
- coal cutter — a machine for undercutting a coal seam
- coal heaver — a workman who moves coal
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- coalescence — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
- coalignment — Alignment together.
- coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
- coatesville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
- cobblestone — Cobblestones are stones with a rounded upper surface which used to be used for making streets.
- cocelebrant — One of two or more celebrants involved with the same occasion.
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- cockblocker — Agent noun of cockblock: one who cockblocks.
- cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
- cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
- cocos plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.
- cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
- code letter — a letter which is part of a code
- code police — (humour) (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
- codeveloper — a fellow developer
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- coelenteron — the simple saclike body cavity of a coelenterate
- coelioscopy — a medical procedure for examining the abdomen
- coelurosaur — any of various small to very large bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs belonging to the suborder Theropoda, active in the Triassic and Cretaceous periods; Tyrannosaurus was a coelurosaur, and birds are thought to have evolved from small coelurosaurs
- coessential — being one in essence or nature: a term applied to the three persons of the Trinity
- coevolution — the evolution of complementary adaptations in two or more species of organisms because of a special relationship that exists between them, as in insect-pollinated plants and their insect pollinators
- coffee mill — a machine for grinding roasted coffee beans
- coffeyville — a city in SE Kansas.
- cognitively — in a cognitive manner
- cognoscible — able to be known or recognized
- coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- cold cellar — root cellar.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel