6-letter words containing l, e, c
- claret — Claret is a type of French red wine.
- clarke — Sir Arthur C(harles). 1917–2008, British science-fiction writer, who helped to develop the first communications satellites. He scripted the film 2001, A Space Odyssey (1968)
- claude — Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria
- clause — A clause is a section of a legal document.
- claver — to talk idly; gossip
- claves — one of a pair of wooden sticks or blocks that are held one in each hand and are struck together to accompany music and dancing.
- clavie — a tar-barrel traditionally set alight in Moray on Hogmanay
- clawed — having claws (sometimes used in combination): sharp-clawed.
- clayed — a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- clayey — of, smeared with, or full of clay
- cleane — Obsolete spelling of clean.
- cleans — Plural form of clean.
- cleare — Obsolete spelling of clear.
- clears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clear.
- cleary — Beverly, born 1916, U.S. author.
- cleats — Plural form of cleat.
- cleave — To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
- cleché — voided so that only a narrow border is visible
- cledge — (mining) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
- cleese — John (Marwood). born 1939, British comedy writer and actor, noted for the TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–74) and Fawlty Towers (1975, 1978). His films include A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and Fierce Creatures (1997)
- cleeve — a cliff
- clefts — Plural form of cleft.
- clem's — a male given name, form of Clement.
- clench — When you clench your fist or your fist clenches, you curl your fingers up tightly, usually because you are very angry.
- cleoid — a claw-shaped dental instrument used to remove carious material from a cavity.
- cleome — any herbaceous or shrubby plant of the mostly tropical capparidaceous genus Cleome, esp C. spinosa, cultivated for their clusters of white or purplish flowers with long stamens
- cleped — to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
- clergy — The clergy are the official leaders of the religious activities of a particular group of believers.
- cleric — A cleric is a member of the clergy.
- clerid — a beetle that preys on other insects
- clerks — Plural form of clerk.
- clerky — Clerklike; clerkish.
- cletus — Anacletus.
- clever — Someone who is clever is intelligent and able to understand things easily or plan things well.
- cleves — Per Teodor [par tey-aw-dawr] /pær ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1840–1905, Swedish chemist.
- clevis — the U-shaped component of a shackle for attaching a drawbar to a plough or similar implement
- clewed — Simple past tense and past participle of clew.
- cliche — A cliché is an idea or phrase which has been used so much that it is no longer interesting or effective or no longer has much meaning.
- client — A client of a professional person or organization is a person or company that receives a service from them in return for payment.
- climes — Plural form of clime.
- clines — Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- clique — If you describe a group of people as a clique, you mean that they spend a lot of time together and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
- clites — Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- cliver — (obsolete, or, dialectal) clever.
- cloche — A cloche is a long, low cover made of glass or clear plastic that is put over young plants to protect them from the cold.
- cloete — Stuart, 1897–1976, South African novelist, born in France.
- cloned — Simple past tense and past participle of clone.
- cloner — someone who is involved in cloning
- clones — Plural form of clone.
- cloque — fabric with an embossed surface