8-letter words containing i, l, n
- clinches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clinch.
- clingier — Comparative form of clingy.
- clinging — to hold tight, as by grasping or embracing; cleave: The children clung to each other in the dark.
- clinical — Clinical means involving or relating to the direct medical treatment or testing of patients.
- clinique — Archaic spelling of clinic.
- clinkers — Plural form of clinker.
- clinking — a clinking sound.
- clip-ons — sunglasses designed to be clipped on to a person's spectacles
- clipping — A clipping is an article, picture, or advertisement that has been cut from a newspaper or magazine.
- clitting — Present participle of clit.
- cliveden — a mansion in Buckinghamshire, on the N bank of the Thames near Maidenhead: formerly the home of Nancy Astor and the scene of gatherings of politicians and others (known as the Cliveden Set); now a hotel
- cloaking — Present participle of cloak.
- clock in — When you clock in at work, you arrive there or put a special card into a device to show what time you arrived.
- clocking — Present participle of clock.
- clogging — to hinder or obstruct with thick or sticky matter; choke up: to clog a drain.
- cloisonn — Alternative spelling of cloisonne.
- clomping — Present participle of clomp.
- clopping — a sound made by or as if by a horse's hoof striking the ground.
- clorinda — a female given name.
- close in — If a group of people close in on a person or place, they come nearer and nearer to them and gradually surround them.
- close-in — near, as to a common center; adjacent, especially to a city: The city is enveloping its close-in suburbs.
- closings — Plural form of closing.
- clothing — Clothing is the things that people wear.
- clotting — Present participle of clot.
- clouding — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- clouting — Present participle of clout.
- clowning — clownish behaviour
- clownish — If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- clubbing — Clubbing is the activity of going to night clubs.
- clucking — Present participle of cluck.
- clumping — a small, close group or cluster, especially of trees or other plants.
- clunking — a hard hit, especially on the head.
- cnidocil — a hairlike sensory process projecting from the surface of a cnidoblast, believed to trigger the discharge of the nematocyst.
- coalmine — a system of excavations made for the extraction of coal
- cobbling — to pave with cobblestones.
- cockling — Present participle of cockle.
- coddling — Act in a sissifying way.
- codlings — Plural form of codling.
- coffling — Present participle of coffle.
- cogenial — Alternative spelling of congenial.
- colamine — ethanolamine.
- colatina — a city in SE Brazil.
- colation — The act of straining or filtering; filtration.
- colicine — an antibacterial protein
- colinear — collinear.
- colistin — a polymyxin antibiotic
- colonial — Colonial means relating to countries that are colonies, or to colonialism.
- colonias — (in the southwestern U.S.) a city neighborhood or a rural settlement inhabited predominantly by Mexicans or Mexican Americans.
- colonics — of or relating to the colon.
- colonies — the subject territories formerly in the British Empire