6-letter words containing c, l, t
- italic — designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type.
- keltic — Celt.
- klatch — a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.
- lacert — (obsolete) A fleshy muscle of the human body.
- lactam — any of a group of cyclic amides characterized by the NHCO group, derived from aminocarboxylic acids by the intramolecular elimination of water from the amino and carboxylic groups.
- lactic — of, relating to, or obtained from milk.
- lactin — (obsolete) lactose.
- lacto- — indicating milk
- lancet — a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
- lcd tv — a flat-panel, high-definition television set that uses LCD technology to display images.
- lclint — (tool, programming) A lint-like ANSI C source checker from MIT. If formal specifications are supplied (in a separate file), lclint can do more powerful checking to detect inconsistencies between specifications and code. Adding specifications enables further checking, types can be defined as abstract and lclint can detect inconsistent use of global variables; undocumented modification of client-visible state; inconsistent use of an uninitialised formal parameter; or failure to initialise an actual parameter.
- lectin — any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- lector — a lecturer in a college or university.
- lentic — pertaining to or living in still water.
- letcha — (slang) Let you.
- letchy — Alternative form of lechy.
- lettic — of or relating to the Letts or their language.
- lictor — (in ancient Rome) one of a body of attendants on chief magistrates, who preceded them carrying the fasces and whose duties included executing the sentences of criminals.
- litchi — the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.
- lithic — pertaining to or consisting of stone.
- locant — (organic chemistry) That part of the name of a compound (often a letter or number) that describes the position of an atom, residue or functional group e.g. the 2 in hexan-2-one.
- locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- locket — a small case for a miniature portrait, a lock of hair, or other keepsake, usually worn on a necklace.
- locust — Also called acridid, short-horned grasshopper. any of several grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, having short antennae and commonly migrating in swarms that strip the vegetation from large areas.
- lolcat — (on the Internet) an image of a cat accompanied by misspelled or grammatically incorrect text that humorously represents the cat's imagined thoughts or comments on what the image is depicting.
- lt cdr — lieutenant commander
- lt col — lieutenant colonel
- lucent — shining.
- luchot — engraved tablets of stone
- lucite — Alternative capitalization of Lucite.
- luetic — syphilitic.
- lurcat — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1892–1966, French painter and tapestry designer.
- mulcts — Plural form of mulct.
- multic — (language) A data-parallel version of C from Wavetracer.
- occult — of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
- ocelot — a spotted leopardlike cat, Felis pardalis, ranging from Texas through South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in the U.S.
- octile — (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
- olcott — Chauncey (Chancellor John Olcott) 1860–1932, U.S. tenor, actor, and songwriter.
- olfact — to detect the smell of (something)
- placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- rectal — of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- relict — Ecology. a species or community living in an environment that has changed from that which is typical for it.
- reluct — to struggle (against something); rebel.
- rt-cdl — Real-Time Common Design Language
- sclate — slate
- sclent — to move or lie on a slant.
- sculpt — shape, carve
- scutal — of or relating to a scute
- select — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- slatch — a relatively smooth interval between heavy seas.