6-letter words containing l, e, c, i
- clypei — Plural form of clypeus.
- coelia — Alternative form of cœlia.
- coiled — Coiled means in the form of a series of loops.
- coldie — a cold can or bottle of beer
- coline — (mathematics).
- collie — A collie or a collie dog is a dog with long hair and a long, narrow nose.
- coolie — (in China, India, and some other countries) a cheaply hired unskilled labourer
- crible — dotted
- decile — one of nine actual or notional values of a variable dividing its distribution into ten groups with equal frequencies: the ninth decile is the value below which 90% of the population lie
- delice — a delicacy; a pleasure
- delict — a wrongful act for which the person injured has the right to a civil remedy
- docile — easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.
- e-coli — Escherichia coli.
- eclair — a finger-shaped cream puff, filled with whipped cream, custard, or pastry cream, often coated with icing.
- eliche — pasta in the form of spirals
- elicit — Evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.
- emblic — a deciduous tree, Phyllanthus emblica, found in eastern India and belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae, used for tanning
- epical — (literature) Any book containing 2 or more epics.
- euclid — (language) (Named after the Greek geometer, fl ca 300 BC.) A Pascal descendant for development of verifiable system software. No goto, no side effects, no global assignments, no functional arguments, no nested procedures, no floats, no enumeration types. Pointers are treated as indices of special arrays called collections. To prevent aliasing, Euclid forbids any overlap in the list of actual parameters of a procedure. Each procedure gives an imports list, and the compiler determines the identifiers that are implicitly imported. Iterators. Ottawa Euclid is a variant.
- exilic — Of or pertaining to exile.
- facile — moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
- felice — a female given name, form of Felicia.
- felsic — (of rocks) consisting chiefly of feldspars, feldspathoids, quartz, and other light-colored minerals.
- fickle — Changing frequently, esp. as regards one's loyalties, interests, or affection.
- gaelic — a Celtic language that includes the speech of ancient Ireland and the dialects that have developed from it, especially those usually known as Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic. Gaelic constitutes the Goidelic subbranch of Celtic.
- giclee — Alternative spelling of giclée.
- heliac — 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.
- icicle — a pendent, tapering mass of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
- inlace — enlace.
- keltic — Celt.
- kielce — a city in S Poland.
- lacier — Comparative form of lacy.
- le cid — The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- lectin — any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- lentic — pertaining to or living in still water.
- lesbic — relating to lesbians
- lettic — of or relating to the Letts or their language.
- leucin — Dated form of leucine.
- lexica — a wordbook or dictionary, especially of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew.
- lichee — the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.
- lichen — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- licked — Simple past tense and past participle of lick.
- licker — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- lidice — a village in the W Czech Republic: suffered a ruthless reprisal by the Nazis in 1942 for the assassination of a high Nazi official.
- lucine — A bivalve mollusk that typically has a rounded white shell with radial and concentric ridges, found in tropical and temperate seas.
- lucite — Alternative capitalization of Lucite.
- luckie — lucky2 .
- luetic — syphilitic.
- lycine — betaine.
- maleic — (chemistry) of, or relating to maleic acid or its derivatives.