8-letter words containing c, l, i, e
- claudine — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- clavecin — a harpsichord
- clavicle — Your clavicles are your collar bones.
- claviers — Plural form of clavier.
- claviger — a key- or club-bearer
- clavinet — An electrophonic keyboard instrument, an electronically amplified clavichord with a distinctive bright staccato sound.
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- claylike — a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- cleaning — the act of removing dirt or something undesirable
- clearing — A clearing is a small area in a forest where there are no trees or bushes.
- cleating — a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support: He nailed cleats into the sides of the bookcase to keep the supports from slipping.
- cleaving — Present participle of cleave.
- clefting — (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
- cleidoic — isolated from the environment, as certain eggs enclosed within a shell or membrane.
- clematis — A clematis is a type of flowering shrub which can be grown to climb up walls or fences. There are many different varieties of clematis.
- clementi — Muzio [moo-tsyaw] /ˈmu tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1752–1832, Italian pianist and composer in England.
- clergies — Plural form of clergy.
- clerical — Clerical jobs, skills, and workers are concerned with work that is done in an office.
- clerihew — a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person
- clerking — Present participle of clerk.
- clerkish — Like or resembling a clerk.
- cleveite — a crystalline variety of the mineral uranitite
- clevises — plural of clevis.
- clickers — Plural form of clicker.
- cliental — a person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.
- climates — Plural form of climate.
- climaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of climax.
- climaxes — Plural form of climax.
- climbers — Plural form of climber.
- clinamen — a bias or inclination
- clinched — Simple past tense and past participle of clinch.
- clincher — A clincher is a fact or argument that finally proves something, settles a dispute, or helps someone achieve a victory.
- clinches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clinch.
- clingier — Comparative form of clingy.
- clinique — Archaic spelling of clinic.
- clinkers — Plural form of clinker.
- clip-fed — (of an automatic firearm) loaded from a cartridge clip
- clippers — a hand tool with two cutting blades for clipping fingernails, hedges, etc
- clippies — Plural form of clippie.
- clitella — a ring or saddle-shaped region of glandular tissue in the body wall of certain annelids, as earthworms and some leeches, that after copulation secretes a cocoon in which the eggs and sperm are deposited for fertilization and development.
- cliveden — a mansion in Buckinghamshire, on the N bank of the Thames near Maidenhead: formerly the home of Nancy Astor and the scene of gatherings of politicians and others (known as the Cliveden Set); now a hotel
- cloister — A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral.
- close in — If a group of people close in on a person or place, they come nearer and nearer to them and gradually surround them.
- close-in — near, as to a common center; adjacent, especially to a city: The city is enveloping its close-in suburbs.
- clothier — a person who makes, sells, or deals in clothes or cloth
- cloudier — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- clumpier — Comparative form of clumpy.
- clumsier — Comparative form of clumsy.
- clupeids — Plural form of clupeid.
- clupeoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes), a large order of soft-finned fishes, including the herrings, salmon, and tarpon