9-letter words containing e, c, l
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- crustless — without a crust or crusts
- cry uncle — a brother of one's father or mother.
- cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryophile — (biology) An organism that thrives at low temperatures.
- cryosleep — (science fiction) A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- cubanelle — a long thin variety of sweet pepper
- cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- cuckolded — the husband of an unfaithful wife.
- cucullate — shaped like a hood or having a hoodlike part
- cuddlable — Able to be cuddled.
- cuddle up — If you cuddle up to someone, you sit or lie as near to them as possible.
- cudgeling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cudgelled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cullender — colander
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cultellus — a sharp, knifelike structure, as the mouthparts of certain bloodsucking flies.
- cultigens — Plural form of cultigen.
- cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- culturgen — One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
- culverins — Plural form of culverin.
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- cup towel — a dishtowel.
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curlicued — Simple past tense and past participle of curlicue.
- curlicues — Plural form of curlicue.
- curliness — The state of being curly.
- curlpaper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curly-cue — an ornamental, fancy curl or twist, as in a signature.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
- curricles — Plural form of curricle.
- curseperl — A curses library for Perl by the author of Perl, Larry Wall <[email protected]>. It comes with Perl.
- cursively — In a cursive manner.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtailer — One who curtails.
- curtalaxe — a cutlass
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
- cut loose — to free or become freed from restraint, custody, anchorage, etc
- cuticulae — Plural form of cuticula.
- cutlasses — Plural form of cutlass.
- cutleries — cutting instruments collectively, especially knives for cutting food.
- cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.