6-letter words containing c, l, e
- leucas — Levkas.
- leucin — Dated form of leucine.
- leuco- — white or lacking colour
- leucon — a type of sponge having a thick body wall with a highly branched canal system leading into the spongocoel.
- lexica — a wordbook or dictionary, especially of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew.
- lichee — the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.
- 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.
- licked — Simple past tense and past participle of lick.
- licker — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- lidice — a village in the W Czech Republic: suffered a ruthless reprisal by the Nazis in 1942 for the assassination of a high Nazi official.
- locale — a place or locality, especially with reference to events or circumstances connected with it: to move to a warmer locale.
- locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- locked — Simple past tense and past participle of lock.
- locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
- locket — a small case for a miniature portrait, a lock of hair, or other keepsake, usually worn on a necklace.
- locoed — (of livestock) intoxicated by eating locoweed.
- locule — a small compartment or chamber, as the pollen-containing cavity within an anther.
- louche — dubious; shady; disreputable.
- lubeck — a seaport in N Germany: important Baltic port in the medieval Hanseatic League.
- 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.
- lucite — Alternative capitalization of Lucite.
- lucked — Simple past tense and past participle of luck.
- lucken — locked; shut
- luckie — lucky2 .
- lucule — (astronomy) A spot or fleck on the sun that is brighter than the surrounding surface.
- luetic — syphilitic.
- lyceum — an institution for popular education providing discussions, lectures, concerts, etc.
- lychee — the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.
- lycine — betaine.
- machel — Samora Moisés [suh-mawr-uh moi-zes] /səˈmɔr ə mɔɪˈzɛs/ (Show IPA), 1933–86, Mozambique political leader: president 1975–86.
- mackle — a blur in printing, as from a double impression.
- macled — (mineralogy) Marked like macle (chiastolite).
- macule — mackle.
- malbec — a black grape originally grown in the Bordeaux region of France and now in Argentina and Chile, used for making wine
- maleic — (chemistry) of, or relating to maleic acid or its derivatives.
- malice — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- marcel — to wave (the hair) by means of special irons, producing the effect of regular, continuous waves (marcel waves)
- mascle — a lozenge represented as having a lozenge-shaped hole at the center.
- 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.
- melick — A grass either mountain melick (Melica nutans) or wood melick (Melica uniflora).
- mescal — an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
- mezcal — Alternative form of mescal.
- michel — Obsolete form of mickle.
- mickle — great; large; much.
- molech — Moloch (defs 1, 2).
- muckle — mickle.
- muscle — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- mycale — a promontory in W Asia Minor, in present-day W Turkey, opposite Samos: site of a Persian defeat by the Greeks in 479 b.c.