8-letter words containing e, c, l
- cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- culverin — a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- cumulate — to accumulate
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- cure-all — A cure-all is something that is believed, usually wrongly, to be able to solve all the problems someone or something has, or to cure a wide range of illnesses.
- cureless — a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- curlicue — Curlicues are decorative twists and curls, usually carved or made with a pen.
- curlycue — an ornamental, fancy curl or twist, as in a signature.
- curricle — a two-wheeled open carriage drawn by two horses side by side
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- curseful — (archaic) horrendous, horrific.
- cusk-eel — any of several eellike, marine fishes of the family Ophidiidae, having the ventral fins located under the throat and so modified as to resemble barbels.
- cusplike — Resembling or characteristic of a cusp.
- cut-pile — having a pile with yarns that are cut instead of looped: a cut-pile carpet.
- cuticles — Plural form of cuticle.
- cutlines — Plural form of cutline.
- cuttable — capable of being cut
- cyclable — fit or designed for bicycle riding: a cyclable road.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- cyclamen — A cyclamen is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers.
- cyclecar — a light, open-air automobile with three or four wheels
- cycleway — A cycleway is a road, route, or path for cyclists.
- cyclized — to cause cyclization.
- cyclones — Plural form of cyclone.
- cyclopes — Plural form of cyclops.
- cylinder — A cylinder is an object with flat circular ends and long straight sides.
- cynewulf — ?8th century ad, Anglo-Saxon poet; author of Juliana, The Ascension, Elene, and The Fates of the Apostles
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- czarlike — Alternative spelling of tsarlike.
- daedalic — an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
- dalcroze — Jaques-Dalcroze.
- daliance — Obsolete spelling of dalliance.
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- dancerly — characteristic of or moving like a dancer; having the skills or physique of a dancer.
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- decalage — the difference between the angles of incidence of the upper and lower wings of a biplane: A biplane has positive decalage if the angle of incidence of the upper wing is greater than that of the lower wing and negative decalage when the lower wing has the greater angle.
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decalled — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decalogy — A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- decaplet — One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
- decently — conforming to the recognized standard of propriety, good taste, modesty, etc., as in behavior or speech.
- decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
- decidual — the endometrium of a pregnant uterus that in many of the higher mammals is cast off at parturition.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.