8-letter words containing c, l, i, e
- elenctic — Serving to refute; refutative.
- elicited — Evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.
- elicitor — A person or thing that elicits.
- elliptic — Of, relating to, or having the form of an ellipse.
- en clair — in ordinary language; not in cipher
- encircle — Form a circle around ; surround.
- enclined — Obsolete form of inclined.
- enclisis — the state of being enclitic
- enclitic — A word pronounced with so little emphasis that it is shortened and forms part of the preceding word, e.g., n’t in can’t.
- eolithic — denoting, relating to, or characteristic of the early part of the Stone Age, characterized by the use of crude stone tools
- epically — In an epic manner.
- epicalyx — (botany) A group of bracts resembling a calyx.
- epicotyl — The region of an embryo or seedling stem above the cotyledon.
- epicycle — A small circle whose center moves around the circumference of a larger one.
- epifocal — situated or occurring at an epicentre
- epilogic — relating to an epilogue
- epiploic — relating to the epiploon
- epipolic — relating to epipolism
- epulotic — a substance that promotes the formation of scar tissue
- erectile — Able to become erect.
- erotical — (obsolete) Erotic.
- escalier — a staircase
- escorial — a village in central Spain, northwest of Madrid: site of an architectural complex containing a monastery, palace, and college, built by Philip II between 1563 and 1584
- escurial — Escorial
- especial — Better or greater than usual; special.
- ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
- eucyclic — having the same number of leaves in each whorl
- eusocial — (biology) Of or pertaining to certain social animals' societies (such as those of ants) in which sterile individuals work for reproductive individuals.
- eustelic — Of or possessing a eustele.
- exclaims — Plural form of exclaim.
- explicit — Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt.
- facelift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
- facemail — a computer program which uses an electronically generated face to deliver messages on screen
- facilely — moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
- fascicle — a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
- fasciole — one of the spine-bearing bands of tubercles found on spatangoid sea-urchins
- fecaloid — like or resembling feces.
- fecolith — A calcified fecal deposit.
- felching — Present participle of felch.
- felicita — a female given name, form of Felicia.
- felicity — the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss: marital felicity.
- fencible — Capable of being defended.
- ficklest — likely to change, especially due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable: fickle weather.
- fiercely — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- filchers — Plural form of filcher.
- filecard — a card of a size suitable for filing, typically 3 × 5 inches (7.62 × 12.7 cm) or 4 × 6 inches (10.16 × 15.24 cm).
- filicide — a person who kills his or her son or daughter.
- finchley — a residential district of N London, part of the Greater London borough of Barnet from 1965
- firecall — A call of fire alarm to a fire station.
- fireclay — Clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, chiefly used for making firebricks.