8-letter words containing e, c, l
- key club — a private nightclub admitting only members and their guests, the members often being given door keys to the club.
- keyclick — (computing) The sound produced by a keypress.
- kickable — Capable, or deserving of being kicked.
- klatches — Plural form of klatch.
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- knuckled — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- knuckler — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knuckles — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- kolaches — Plural form of kolache.
- kreplach — Jewish Cookery. turnovers or pockets of noodle dough filled with any of several mixtures, as kasha or chopped chicken livers, usually boiled, and served in soup.
- l1 cache — primary cache
- l2 cache — secondary cache
- la ceiba — a seaport in N Honduras.
- la-chute — French La Chute. a novel (1957) by Albert Camus.
- lace bug — any of several bugs of the family Tingidae, characterized by a lacy pattern of ridges on the head, thorax, and wings, and feeding on the leaves of oak, birch, sycamore, etc.
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- laceleaf — a submerged aquatic plant, Aponogeton madagascariensis, of Madagascar, having tiny white flowers and broad leaves consisting only of veins that float just beneath the surface.
- laceless — (of shoes, basketballs, etc.) Without laces.
- lacelike — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lacerant — painfully distressing; harrowing
- lacerate — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lachaise — Gaston [gas-tuh n;; French ga-stawn] /ˈgæs tən;; French gaˈstɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1935, U.S. sculptor, born in France.
- lachesis — the Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
- laciness — a lacy quality or state
- lacquers — Plural form of lacquer.
- lacrosse — a game, originated by Indians of North America, in which two 10-member teams attempt to send a small ball into each other's netted goal, each player being equipped with a crosse or stick at the end of which is a netted pocket for catching, carrying, or throwing the ball.
- lactated — Simple past tense and past participle of lactate.
- lactates — Plural form of lactate.
- lacteals — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling milk; milky.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- lactogen — (biochemistry) A polypeptide placental hormone, part of the somatotropin family, with structure and function similar to those of growth hormone. It modifies the metabolic state of the mother during pregnancy to facilitate the energy supply of the fetus.
- lactones — Plural form of lactone.
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- lacunule — a small lacuna.
- laicized — Simple past tense and past participle of laicize.
- laitance — a milky deposit on the surface of new cement or concrete, usually caused by too much water.
- lak cell — lymphokine-activated killer cell: one of a number of white blood cells removed from a patient's whole blood and cultured with interleukin-2: used experimentally for reinfusion into the body to shrink malignant tumors.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- lancegay — a lance used in medieval times
- lancelet — any of several small, lancet-shaped burrowing marine animals of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a notochord and bearing structural similarities to both vertebrates and invertebrates.
- lancelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- lanceted — having lancet-headed openings.
- lanciers — Plural form of lancier.
- landrace — one of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of northern European origin.
- laodicea — ancient name of Latakia.