8-letter words containing e, c, l
- geulincx — Arnold, 1624?–69, Belgian philosopher.
- glaciate — to cover with ice or glaciers.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- gladbeck — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W central Germany.
- glib ice — ice that is particularly smooth and slippery
- glitched — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
- glitches — A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment.
- glucides — any of various organic compounds that consist of or contain a carbohydrate.
- glucogen — Alternative form of glycogen.
- glycemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glycemic — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glyceria — any aquatic grass species in the genus Glyceria
- glyceric — of or derived from glycerol.
- glycerin — glycerol.
- glycerol — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glyceryl — containing the glyceryl group.
- glycogen — a white, tasteless polysaccharide, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , molecularly similar to starch, constituting the principal carbohydrate storage material in animals and occurring chiefly in the liver, in muscle, and in fungi and yeasts.
- goidelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- graceful — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- grockles — Plural form of grockle.
- guesclin — Bertrand du ?1320–80, French commander during the Hundred Years' War
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- halfpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
- halluces — the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
- hatchels — Plural form of hatchel.
- havelock — a town in SE North Carolina.
- headlice — Alternative form of head lice.
- headlock — a hold in which a wrestler locks an arm around the opponent's head.
- hecklers — Plural form of heckler.
- heckling — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- hecticly — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- hectorly — in the manner of a hector
- heliacal — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- helicity — Helical character, especially of DNA.
- helicoid — coiled or curving like a spiral.
- helicons — Plural form of helicon.
- helicopt — to fly or transport using a helicopter
- helideck — (nautical) A platform (on a vessel or offshore structure) on which helicopters may land and take off.
- helladic — of or relating to the Bronze Age culture on the mainland of ancient Greece c2900–1100 b.c.
- hellenic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
- hellicat — an evil creature
- helvetic — a Swiss Protestant; Zwinglian.
- hemlocks — Plural form of hemlock.
- hemocoel — a series of interconnected spaces between tissues and organs through which blood flows freely, unconfined by veins or arteries, occurring in several invertebrate groups, especially mollusks and arthropods.
- heraclea — an ancient city in S Italy, near the Gulf of Taranto: Roman defeat 280 b.c.
- heracles — Hercules (def 1).