11-letter words containing e, c, l
- clientelage — (dated) clientele; customers or patrons.
- clientelism — A political system based on personal relations rather than personal merits.
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- climacteric — a critical event or period
- climategate — the scandal surrounding the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit whose researchers were accused of manipulating statistics on climate change to make global warming appear less of a threat
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- clingstones — Plural form of clingstone.
- clinochlore — a mineral similar to chlorite in appearance
- clinometers — Plural form of clinometer.
- clinometric — (of crystals) having oblique angles between one or all axes.
- cliometrics — the study of economic history using statistics and computer analysis
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- clock speed — clock rate
- clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.
- clock-timer — timer (def 4).
- clodhoppers — a large heavy shoe or boot
- cloisonnage — cloisonné work
- cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- clorazepate — a benzodiazepine, C 16 H 13 ClN 2 O 4 , used in the treatment of chronic anxiety states and as an adjunct in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
- close brace — right brace
- close order — an arrangement of troops in compact units at close intervals and distances, as for marching
- close quote — (used by a speaker to indicate the end of a quotation.)
- close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
- close reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- close round — to encircle; surround
- close shave — a narrow escape
- close to/on — Close to a particular amount or distance means slightly less than that amount or distance. In British English, you can also say close on a particular amount or distance.
- close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
- close-stool — a wooden stool containing a covered chamber pot
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
- closed door — held in strict privacy; not open to the press or the public: a closed-door strategy meeting of banking executives.
- closed game — a relatively complex game involving closed ranks and files and permitting only nontactical positional manoeuvring
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- closed rule — a rule that prohibits amendments to a bill from the floor.
- closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
- closed term — (theory) A term with no free variables.
- closed-door — private; barred to members of the public
- closed-loop — of or relating to a processing system in which effluents are recycled, that is, treated and returned for reuse.
- closefisted — stingy
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloth-eared — deaf
- clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
- clothes-peg — a clothespin.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothesless — Without clothes.
- clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline