9-letter words containing c, l, e
- calf love — temporary infatuation or love of an adolescent for a member of the opposite sex
- calfdozer — a small bulldozer
- calibered — the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
- calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- caliphate — the office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph
- calixtine — a member of a body of Hussites in the 15th century holding that the chalice as well as the bread should be received by the laity in the Eucharist.
- call rate — the interest rate on a call loan
- call time — to suspend play temporarily
- call-over — a preliminary hearing
- caller id — A telephone that has caller ID displays the telephone number and name of the person who is calling you.
- calliopes — Plural form of calliope.
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calloused — A foot or hand that is calloused is covered in calluses.
- callouses — made hard; hardened.
- callowest — Superlative form of callow.
- calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
- calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- calvaries — Plural form of calvary.
- calvities — baldness
- cam wheel — a wheel, with an off-center axis or irregular shape, that functions as a cam.
- camel toe — the visual effect created when a woman's trousers cling too tightly to the crotch, emphasizing the shape of the pudenda
- camel-toe — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
- camelback — a locomotive having its cab situated astride the boiler, halfway along it, rather than at the rear of the boiler
- camelcase — the convention of writing compound words or phrases with no spaces and an initial lowercase or uppercase letter, with each remaining word element beginning with an uppercase letter: iPod and WikiAnswers are both spelled in camel case.
- cameleers — Plural form of cameleer.
- camelhair — the hair of the camel or dromedary, used in clothing, rugs, etc
- camellias — Plural form of camellia.
- camellike — resembling a camel
- camisoles — Plural form of camisole.
- camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
- campanile — (esp in Italy) a bell tower, not usually attached to another building
- canaletto — original name Giovanni Antonio Canale. 1697–1768, Italian painter and etcher, noted particularly for his highly detailed paintings of cities, esp Venice, which are marked by strong contrasts of light and shade
- canalised — to make a canal or canals through.
- canalized — Simple past tense and past participle of canalize.
- canalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canalize.
- canaveral — Capecape on the E coast of Fla.: U.S. proving ground for missiles and spacecraft
- cancelbot — a computer program that deletes unwanted mailings to internet usergroups
- canceleer — (of a hawk) to turn in flight when a stoop fails, in order to re-attempt it
- canceling — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cancelled — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- canceller — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cancellus — (in an early Christian basilica) one of a row of bars separating the clergy and sometimes the choir from the congregation.
- candlelit — A candlelit room or table is lit by the light of candles.
- candlemas — Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- candlepin — a bowling pin, as used in skittles, tenpin bowling, candlepins, etc
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions