7-letter words containing c, l, i
- clinger — to adhere closely; stick to: The wet paper clings to the glass.
- clinics — A place or hospital department where outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, esp. of a specialist nature.
- clinked — Simple past tense and past participle of clink.
- clinker — the ash and partially fused residues from a coal-fired furnace or fire
- clinoid — (anatomy) Like a bed.
- clinton — Bill, full name William Jefferson Clinton. born 1946, US Democrat politician; 42nd president of the US (1993–2001)
- clip on — designed to be clipped on easily, especially by a self-attached clip: a clip-on bow tie.
- clip-on — A clip-on object is designed to be fastened to something by means of a clip.
- clipart — large collection of simple drawings stored in a computer
- clipped — Clipped means neatly cut.
- clipper — Clippers are a tool used for cutting small amounts from something, especially from someone's hair or nails.
- clippie — a bus conductress
- cliqued — a small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.
- cliques — Plural form of clique.
- cliquey — If you describe a group of people or their behaviour as cliquey, you mean they spend their time only with other members of the group and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
- clitter — (of insects) to stridulate or make a shrill noise
- clivers — cleavers.
- cloison — a partition
- cloning — the process of making an identical copy of an organism or cell
- clonism — a series of clonic spasms
- clootie — (usually initial capital letter) cloot (def 2).
- closing — The closing part of an activity or period of time is the final part of it.
- cloying — You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental.
- cludgie — a toilet
- clue in — anything that serves to guide or direct in the solution of a problem, mystery, etc.
- clueing — Present participle of clue.
- cluniac — of or relating to a reformed Benedictine order founded at the French town of Cluny in 910
- clupeid — any widely distributed soft-finned teleost fish of the family Clupeidae, typically having oily flesh, and including the herrings, sardines, shad, etc
- clusium — ancient name of Chiusi.
- clytius — (in the Iliad) a brother of Priam killed by Hercules.
- coalbin — a bin for holding coal
- coalify — to turn into coal
- coaling — Present participle of coal.
- coalise — to form a coalition
- coalize — to form a coalition
- coaxial — having or being mounted on a common axis
- cockily — in a cocky manner
- coctile — made by exposing to heat
- codical — Of or pertaining to a code or codex.
- codicil — A codicil is an instruction that is added to a will after the main part of it has been written.
- codilla — the coarse parts of flax and hemp
- codille — (in the game of ombre) a term indicating that the game is won
- codline — an untarred cord of hemp or cotton, used for fishing and for various purposes aboard a ship.
- codling — any of several varieties of long tapering apples used for cooking
- codlins — Plural form of codlin.
- coeliac — of or relating to the abdomen
- cofinal — of or relating to a subset of a set with a partial order relation, as “greater than” or “equal to,” in which corresponding to each element in the set is an element in the subset that is in relation to the given element.
- coilgun — Any of various devices that use electromagnets to accelerate a magnetic projectile via non contact means.
- coiling — to wind into continuous, regularly spaced rings one above the other: to coil a wire around a pencil.
- colchis — an ancient country on the Black Sea south of the Caucasus; the land of Medea and the Golden Fleece in Greek mythology