9-letter words containing c, l, o, s, e
- choosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- cleobulus — flourished 560 b.c, Greek sage and lyric poet, a native and tyrant of Lindus, Rhodes.
- clockwise — When something is moving clockwise, it is moving in a circle in the same direction as the hands on a clock.
- cloisonne — a design made by filling in with coloured enamel an outline of flattened wire put on edge
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- close off — To close something off means to separate it from other things or people so that they cannot go there.
- close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- close-set — (esp of the eyes) positioned close together
- closeable — able to be closed
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- closeness — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- closeouts — Plural form of closeout.
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- closeting — Present participle of closet.
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- cloudless — If the sky is cloudless, there are no clouds in it.
- clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
- co-equals — equal with another or each other in rank, ability, extent, etc.: The two top students were coequal.
- coagulase — any enzyme that causes coagulation of blood
- coal seam — a bed of coal.
- coalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of coalesce.
- coalescer — A coalescer is a vessel or stage which causes small drops of a liquid to come together and form a stream or form elements with a larger volume.
- coalesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coalesce.
- coalfaces — Plural form of coalface.
- coalhouse — a shed or building for storing coal
- coalmines — Plural form of coalmine.
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- cockerels — Plural form of cockerel.
- cocounsel — to counsel jointly
- coelostat — an astronomical instrument consisting of a plane mirror mounted parallel to the earth's axis and rotated about this axis once every two days so that light from a celestial body, esp the sun, is reflected onto a second mirror, which reflects the beam into a telescope
- cogwheels — Plural form of cogwheel.
- cohesible — capable of cohesion
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold case — a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved
- cold sore — Cold sores are small sore spots that sometimes appear on or near someone's lips and nose when they have a cold.
- coldhouse — an unheated greenhouse
- coldsleep — A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- coleslaws — Plural form of coleslaw.
- coliseums — Plural form of coliseum.
- collagens — Plural form of collagen.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- collapses — Plural form of collapse.
- colleages — Misspelling of colleagues.
- colletids — Plural form of colletid.