8-letter words containing c, o, l
- clodpate — A blockhead; a dolt or fool.
- clodpole — a dull or stupid person
- clodpoll — a stupid or foolish person; blockhead
- 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.
- clonally — (chiefly, botany) By means of asexual reproduction. (from 20th c.).
- clonebot — (chat) (Or "clone") A bot meant to replicate itself en masse on a talk network (generally IRC). A bot appears on the network as several agents, and then carries out some task, typically that of flooding another user. Compare ghost.
- clopping — a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- clorinda — a female given name.
- closable — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- 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 up — If someone closes up a building, they shut it completely and securely, often because they are going away.
- close-by — nearby; adjacent; neighboring.
- close-in — near, as to a common center; adjacent, especially to a city: The city is enveloping its close-in suburbs.
- close-up — the end or conclusion: at the close of day; the close of the speech.
- closeout — A closeout at a store is a sale at which goods are sold at reduced prices.
- closeted — If you are closeted with someone, you are talking privately to them.
- closeups — Plural form of closeup.
- closings — Plural form of closing.
- closures — Plural form of closure.
- 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.
- clotures — Plural form of cloture.
- cloudage — a mass of clouds
- 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.
- cloudlet — a small cloud
- clouting — Present participle of clout.
- clovelly — a village in SW England, in Devon on the Bristol Channel: famous for its steep cobbled streets: tourism, fishing. Pop: 472 (2001)
- clovered — covered with clover
- 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
- clownery — clownish behavior.
- 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.
- cloyless — not cloying
- cloyment — satiety
- cloysome — having a cloying nature
- clubfoot — If someone has a clubfoot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
- clubmoss — Alternative spelling of club moss.
- clubroom — a room used by a club for meetings, activities, socializing, etc
- clubroot — a disease of cabbages and related plants, caused by the fungus Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which the roots become thickened and distorted
- 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.
- coagulum — any coagulated mass; clot; curd