8-letter words containing l, a, n, c
- cornmeal — Cornmeal is a powder made from maize. It is used in cooking.
- cornwall — a former administrative county of SW England; became a unitary authority in 2009: hilly, with a deeply indented coastline. Administrative centre: Truro. Pop: 513 500 (2003 est). Area: 3564 sq km (1376 sq miles)
- coronial — of or relating to a coroner
- cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
- covalent — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- cradling — a framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
- crandall — Prudence, 1803–90, U.S. educator and civil-rights activist.
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- cravenly — In a craven manner.
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- criminal — A criminal is a person who regularly commits crimes.
- cromalin — a colour proofing system
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- crosland — Anthony. 1918–77, British Labour politician and socialist theorist, author of The Future of Socialism (1957)
- crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- crumenal — a purse
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- culiacan — a city in NW Mexico, capital of Sinaloa state. Pop: 799 000 (2005 est)
- culinary — Culinary means concerned with cooking.
- cumulant — (mathematics) Any of a set of parameters of a one-dimensional probability distribution of a certain form.
- cunabula — a cradle
- cut nail — a nail having a tapering rectangular form with a blunt point, made by cutting from a thin rolled sheet of iron or steel.
- cyclamen — A cyclamen is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers.
- cyclonal — of or like a cyclone.
- daliance — Obsolete spelling of dalliance.
- daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
- dancerly — characteristic of or moving like a dancer; having the skills or physique of a dancer.
- dancical — a type of dance show in which choreographed performers dance to pop songs
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- declinal — the action of politely refusing or declining
- diaconal — of or associated with a deacon or the diaconate
- dockland — the land or area surrounding a commercial port.
- dulciana — an organ stop having metal pipes and giving thin, incisive, somewhat stringlike tones.
- dulcinea — a ladylove; sweetheart.
- duncical — relating to a dunce or being stupid or simple-minded
- ecotonal — Relating to ecotones.
- el cajon — city in S Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 95,000
- elegance — The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.
- elegancy — Alternative form of elegance.
- en clair — in ordinary language; not in cipher
- enclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of enclave.
- enclaves — Plural form of enclave.
- encradle — to put in a cradle
- ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
- eulachon — A small edible fish of North America, Thaleichthys pacificus; the candlefish.