5-letter words containing l, e, c
- clare — a county of W Republic of Ireland, in Munster between Galway Bay and the Shannon estuary. County town: Ennis. Pop: 103 277 (2002). Area: 3188 sq km (1231 sq miles)
- clave — one of a pair of hardwood sticks struck together to make a hollow sound, esp to mark the beat of Latin-American dance music
- clean — Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
- clear — Something that is clear is easy to understand, see, or hear.
- cleat — A cleat is a kind of hook with two ends which is used to hold ropes, especially on sailing boats.
- cleck — (of birds) to hatch
- cleek — a large hook, such as one used to land fish
- clefs — Plural form of clef.
- cleft — A cleft in a rock or in the ground is a narrow opening in it.
- clegg — Nick, full name Nicholas William Peter Clegg. born 1967, British politician; leader of the Liberal Democrats (2007–2015); deputy prime minister of a Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition (2010–2015)
- clems — Plural form of clem.
- cleon — died 422 bc, Athenian demagogue and military leader
- clepe — to call by the name of
- clept — a simple past tense and past participle of clepe.
- clerc — Laurent [loh-rahn] /loʊˈrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1785–1869, French educator of the deaf, in the U.S. after 1816.
- clerk — A clerk is a person who works in an office, bank, or law court and whose job is to look after the records or accounts.
- cleve — Per Teodor [par tey-aw-dawr] /pær ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1840–1905, Swedish chemist.
- clews — Plural form of clew.
- clhep — (library) A C++ class library for high energy physics applications.
- clime — You use clime in expressions such as warmer climes and foreign climes to refer to a place that has a particular kind of climate.
- cline — a continuous variation in form between members of a species having a wide variable geographical or ecological range
- clite — Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- clive — Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey. 1725–74, British general and statesman, whose victory at Plassey (1757) strengthened British control in India
- cloke — Archaic spelling of cloak.
- clone — If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
- close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- clote — the burdock
- clove — Cloves are small dried flower buds used as a spice.
- cloye — to claw
- cloze — In language teaching, a cloze test is a test in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The learner has to fill each space with a suitable word.
- clued — Simple past tense and past participle of clue.
- clues — Plural form of clue.
- cluey — well-informed and adroit
- clyde — a river in S Scotland, rising in South Lanarkshire and flowing northwest to the Firth of Clyde: formerly extensive shipyards. Length: 170 km (106 miles)
- clype — to tell tales; be an informer
- coble — a small single-masted flat-bottomed fishing boat
- codel — Abbreviation of congressional delegation, government-paid trips abroad, designed to give lawmakers first-hand knowledge of matters relevant to their legislation.
- codle — Obsolete form of coddle.
- coel- — indicating a cavity within a body or a hollow organ or part
- coles — Plural form of cole.
- colet — John. ?1467–1519, English humanist and theologian; founder of St Paul's School, London (1509)
- coley — any of various edible fishes, esp the coalfish
- coole — Obsolete spelling of cool.
- copel — Obsolete spelling of couple.
- creel — a wickerwork basket, esp one used to hold fish
- crile — George Washington1864-1943; U.S. surgeon
- cruel — Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- culet — the flat face at the bottom of a gem
- culex — any mosquito of the genus Culex, such as C. pipiens, the common mosquito
- cupel — a refractory pot in which gold or silver is refined