8-letter words containing c, o, l, i
- choosily — In a choosy manner; pickily.
- choppily — (of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
- chowline — A line of people waiting for food.
- ciclaton — an expensive cloth used in medieval times
- cilantro — Cilantro is the leaves of the coriander plant that are used as an herb.
- cimbalom — a type of dulcimer, esp of Hungary
- cimolite — a soft, clayey mineral of white, grey, or reddish coloration
- clafouti — a tart made of fruit, especially cherries, baked in a thick, sweet batter.
- clairton — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- clarions — Plural form of clarion.
- classico — (of Italian wines) coming from the Chianti wine-growing region
- cleidoic — isolated from the environment, as certain eggs enclosed within a shell or membrane.
- clifford — a masculine name: dim. Cliff
- clifftop — A clifftop is the area of land around the top of a cliff.
- clip-ons — sunglasses designed to be clipped on to a person's spectacles
- clip-out — intended to be clipped out, as from a newspaper: a clip-out coupon.
- clitoral — Clitoral means concerned with or relating to the clitoris.
- clitoric — relating to the clitoris
- clitoris — The clitoris is a part at the front of a woman's sexual organs where she can feel sexual pleasure.
- cloaking — Present participle of cloak.
- clock in — When you clock in at work, you arrive there or put a special card into a device to show what time you arrived.
- clocking — Present participle of clock.
- cloddish — of, relating to, or resembling a clod or boor; doltish; stolid.
- clogging — to hinder or obstruct with thick or sticky matter; choke up: to clog a drain.
- cloisonn — Alternative spelling of cloisonne.
- cloister — A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral.
- clomping — Present participle of clomp.
- clopping — a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- clorinda — a female given name.
- 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.
- closings — Plural form of closing.
- clothier — a person who makes, sells, or deals in clothes or cloth
- clothing — Clothing is the things that people wear.
- clotilda — ?475–?545 ad, wife of Clovis I of the Franks, whom she converted (496) to Christianity
- clotting — Present participle of clot.
- cloudier — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- cloudily — In a cloudy way.
- clouding — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- clouting — Present participle of clout.
- clovis i — German name Chlodwig. ?466–511 ad, king of the Franks (481–511), who extended the Merovingian kingdom to include most of Gaul and SW Germany
- clowning — clownish behaviour
- clownish — If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- clupeoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes), a large order of soft-finned fishes, including the herrings, salmon, and tarpon
- cnidocil — a hairlike sensory process projecting from the surface of a cnidoblast, believed to trigger the discharge of the nematocyst.
- co-pilot — The co-pilot of an aircraft is a pilot who assists the chief pilot.
- coahuila — a state of N Mexico: mainly plateau, crossed by several mountain ranges that contain rich mineral resources. Capital: Saltillo. Pop: 2 295 808 (2000). Area: 151 571 sq km (59 112 sq miles)
- coal oil — petroleum or a refined product from petroleum, esp kerosene
- coal pit — a pit where coal is dug.
- coal tit — a small European songbird, Parus ater, having a black head with a white patch on the nape: family Paridae (tits)