6-letter words containing l, e, c
- celaya — a city in central Mexico, in Guanajuato state: market town, famous for its sweetmeats; textile-manufacturing. Pop: 727 000 (2005 est)
- celebs — Plural form of celeb.
- celery — Celery is a vegetable with long pale green stalks. It is eaten raw in salads.
- celiac — of or in the abdominal cavity
- celine — Louis-Ferdinand (lwifɛrdinɑ̃), real name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches. 1894–1961, French novelist and physician; became famous with his controversial first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
- cellar — A cellar is a room underneath a building, which is often used for storing things in.
- cellas — (language) CELLular ASsemblies. A concurrent block-structured language.
- celled — containing or divided into compartments or cells
- cellos — Plural form of cello.
- celtic — If you describe something as Celtic, you mean that it is connected with the people and the culture of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and some other areas such as Brittany.
- celure — an ornamented canopy, as for a bed or dais.
- cendal — a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
- cental — a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds (45.3 kilograms)
- cercal — of or relating to a tail
- cereal — Cereal or breakfast cereal is a food made from grain. It is mixed with milk and eaten for breakfast.
- cerlox — a type of plastic binding used in strips to curl through the perforations in separate sheets of paper to bind them together
- cerule — (poetic) Cerulean.
- ceylon — an island in the Indian Ocean, off the SE coast of India: consists politically of the republic of Sri Lanka. Area: 64 644 sq km (24 959 sq miles)
- chalet — A chalet is a small wooden house, especially in a mountain area or a holiday camp.
- chanel — Gabrielle (ɡabriɛl), known as Coco Chanel. 1883–1971, French couturière and perfumer, who created "the little black dress" and the perfume Chanel No. 5
- chapel — A chapel is a part of a church which has its own altar and which is used for private prayer.
- chavel — (obsolete) The jaw, especially, the jaw of a beast.
- chelae — the pincerlike organ or claw terminating certain limbs of crustaceans and arachnids.
- chelan — Lake, a lake in N central Washington, in the Cascade Range: one of the deepest freshwater lakes in the U.S. 55 miles (89 km) long.
- chelas — Plural form of chela.
- cheryl — a feminine name: dim. Cher, Cheri; var. Sheryl
- chesil — small stones often found on beaches and worn by the action of the sea
- cheval — (obsolete) A horse; hence, a support or frame.
- chicle — a gumlike substance obtained from the sapodilla; the main ingredient of chewing gum
- chield — a young man; fellow.
- chiels — Plural form of chiel.
- childe — a young man of noble birth
- chiles — Plural form of chile, an alternative form of 'chili'.
- chiloé — island off SC Chile: 3,241 sq mi (8,394 sq km); pop. 68,000
- chisel — A chisel is a tool that has a long metal blade with a sharp edge at the end. It is used for cutting and shaping wood and stone.
- chole- — indicating bile or gall
- cholee — a short-sleeved blouse or bodice, often one exposing part of the midriff, worn by Hindu women in India.
- choler — anger or ill humour
- cicely — a feminine name
- cigale — (language, tool) A parser generator language with extensible syntax.
- cilice — a haircloth fabric or garment
- Çiller — Tansu (ˈtænzuː). born 1945, Turkish politician; first female prime minister (1993–96)
- cineol — a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
- circle — A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area.
- cisele — noting or pertaining to velvet having a chiseled or embossed pattern produced by contrasting cut and uncut pile.
- citole — cittern
- clades — Plural form of clade.
- claime — Obsolete spelling of claim.
- claire — a feminine name
- claque — a group of people hired to applaud