8-letter words containing e, c, l
- crenelle — Alternative spelling of crenel.
- creolise — (of a pidgin language) to become the native language of a speech community
- creolist — a student of creole languages
- creolize — to make (a language) become a creole
- cresylic — of, concerned with, or containing creosote or cresol
- crevalle — a silver coloured fish, Caranx hippos of the Carangidae or jack family native to western Atlantic areas
- crewless — with no crew
- cribella — Plural form of cribellum.
- crimeful — criminal; filled with crime
- cringles — Plural form of cringle.
- crinkled — marked with crenellations
- crinkles — Plural form of crinkle.
- crippled — physically incapacitated
- crippler — Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple.
- cripples — Plural form of cripple.
- cromlech — a circle of prehistoric standing stones
- cromwell — Oliver. 1599–1658, English general and statesman. A convinced Puritan, he was an effective leader of the parliamentary army in the Civil War. After the execution of Charles I he quelled the Royalists in Scotland and Ireland, and became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (1653–58)
- cropless — without a crop or crops
- crosslet — a cross having a smaller cross near the end of each arm
- crousely — in a crouse manner
- crownlet — a small crown
- crozzled — blackened or burnt at the edges
- crucible — A crucible is a pot in which metals or other substances can be melted or heated up to very high temperatures.
- cruelest — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- cruelled — Simple past tense and past participle of cruel.
- crueller — Comparative form of cruel.
- crueltie — Obsolete spelling of cruelty.
- crullers — Plural form of cruller.
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- crumenal — a purse
- crumpled — creased
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cryolite — a white or colourless mineral consisting of a fluoride of sodium and aluminium in monoclinic crystalline form: used in the production of aluminium, glass, and enamel. Formula: Na3AlF6
- cubicles — A small partitioned-off area of a room, for example one containing a bed in a dwelling or one containing a desk in an office.
- cuddlier — suitable for or inviting cuddling: a cuddly teddy bear.
- cudgeled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cudgeler — One who beats with a cudgel.
- cue ball — the ball struck by the cue, as distinguished from the object balls
- cuffless — having no cuff or cuffs
- culchies — Plural form of culchie.
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- culloden — a moor near Inverness in N Scotland: site of a battle in 1746 in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites under Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- culottes — Culottes are knee-length women's trousers that look like a skirt.
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- culpeper — Nicholas. 1616–54, English herbalist and astrologer; his unauthorized translation (1649) of the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia and his Herbal (1653) popularized herbalism
- cultigen — a species of plant that is known only as a cultivated form and did not originate from a wild type
- cultlike — resembling a cult
- cultrate — shaped like a knife blade
- cultured — If you describe someone as cultured, you mean that they have good manners, are well educated, and know a lot about the arts.