8-letter words containing l, e, c
- bracelet — A bracelet is a chain or band, usually made of metal, which you wear around your wrist as jewellery.
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- bractlet — a small or secondary bract at the base of a flower
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- bullneck — an enlarged neck
- burlecue — burlesque (def 3).
- bx cable — a cable consisting of wires contained in a flexible metal tubing, used chiefly in wiring buildings and in supplying electric power to equipment.
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- caballer — a person who cabals
- cable tv — a television system in which a high antenna and one or more dish antennas receive signals from distant and local stations, electronic satellite relays, etc. and transmit them by direct cable to the receivers of persons subscribing to the system
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- caecally — with relation to the caecum
- caerleon — a town in SE Wales, in Newport county borough on the River Usk: traditionally the seat of King Arthur's court. Pop: 9392 (2001)
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- cageless — Without a cage.
- cagelike — resembling a cage
- cageling — a bird kept in a cage
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- cajolery — persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
- cakehole — (slang) The mouth.
- cakewalk — If you say that something is a cakewalk, you mean that it is very easy to do or achieve.
- calamine — Calamine is a liquid that you can put on your skin when it is sore or itchy.
- calamite — any extinct treelike plant of the genus Calamites, of Carboniferous times, related to the horsetails
- calanthe — any of various orchids of the genus Calanthe of the family Orchidaceae, found in tropical areas and having long-lasting yellow, white, or pink flowers
- calathea — any plant of the S. American perennial genus Calathea, many species of which are grown as greenhouse or house plants for their decorative variegated leaves, esp the zebra plant (C. zebrina), the leaves of which are purplish below and dark green with lighter stripes above: family Marantaceae
- calcanei — Plural form of calcaneus.
- calceate — to shoe
- calcined — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- calcrete — A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, capable of cementing together with other materials.
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- caldwell — Erskine (ˈɜːskɪn). 1903–87, US novelist whose works include Tobacco Road (1933)
- calebite — a member of a tribe descended from Caleb.
- calendal — relating to the calends
- calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calexico — a town in S California.
- calfless — (of a cow) having no calves
- calflike — resembling a calf
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.