8-letter words containing c, u, l, e
- opuscule — a small or minor work.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- overclub — to use a club which causes the shot to go too far
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peculate — to appropriate or embezzle (public money)
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- peculium — property that a father or master allowed his child or slave to hold as his own
- peduncle — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
- pellucid — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- penuchle — pinochle.
- penuckle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- plectrum — a small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- plumcake — a cake with raisins in it
- populace — the common people of a community, nation, etc., as distinguished from the higher classes.
- poultice — a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
- preclude — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- prelunch — of or relating to the period before lunch
- pucelage — virginity
- pucellas — a tool resembling tongs or shears for handling and shaping molten glass.
- pulicene — flea-ridden
- pulicide — a flea-killing substance
- punctule — a very small opening
- purlicue — a flourish at the end of a pen stroke
- recolour — to give a new colour to
- recouple — to couple (two people or things) again; reunite
- relaunch — an act or instance of launching something again.
- relucent — shining; bright.
- republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
- resculpt — to sculpt again
- reticule — a small purse or bag, originally of network but later of silk, rayon, etc.
- reuchlin — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1455–1522, German humanist scholar.
- ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- rugelach — a fruit-and-nut pastry shaped like a croissant
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.
- sacellum — a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
- saeculum — an age in astronomy
- scale up — increase in size
- scalenus — any of three muscles on each side of the neck, the action of which raises the first and second ribs in respiration and assists in bending the neck to one side.
- scentful — full of scent or odour; fragrant
- schedule — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- schellum — a person or an animal that is a rascal or villain
- schuller — Gunther, born 1925, U.S. composer, conductor, and music writer and educator.
- schuyler — Philip John, 1733–1804, American statesman and general in the Revolutionary War.
- sclerous — hard; firm; bony.
- scrumple — to crumple or crush (something, esp a piece of paper) or (esp of a piece of paper) to become crumpled or crushed
- scrupler — a person with scruples
- scruples — a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
- scuffler — a person who scuffles