8-letter words containing l, e, c
- canoodle — If two people are canoodling, they are kissing and holding each other a lot.
- canticle — a nonmetrical hymn, derived from the Bible and used in the liturgy of certain Christian churches
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- capeline — a cap-shaped bandage for covering either the head or an amputation stump
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- capellet — a swelling on a horse's elbow, or on the heel of the hock, resembling a wen
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- capsules — Plural form of capsule.
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.
- car line — trolley line.
- caracole — a half turn to the right or left
- caramels — Plural form of caramel.
- caravels — Plural form of caravel.
- carceral — relating to a prison
- cardenal — Ernesto (ˈɜːnɛstaʊ). born 1925, Nicaraguan poet, revolutionary, and Roman Catholic priest; an influential figure in the Sandinista movement
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- careless — If you are careless, you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.
- careline — a telephone service set up by a company or other organization to provide its customers or clients with information about its products or services
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- carolean — characteristic of the time of Charles I and II of England: a Carolean costume.
- carolers — Plural form of caroler.
- caroline — characteristic of or relating to Charles I or Charles II, kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the society over which they ruled, or their government
- carolled — Simple past tense and past participle of carol.
- caroller — A person who sings carols; a carol singer.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- carrells — Plural form of carrell.
- carriole — cariole
- cartable — Able to be carted or carried.
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- cascabel — a knoblike protrusion on the rear part of the breech of an obsolete muzzle-loading cannon
- case law — Case law is law that has been established by following decisions made by judges in earlier cases.
- caseload — The caseload of someone such as a doctor, social worker, or lawyer is the number of cases that they have to deal with.
- cashable — Able to be converted into cash.
- cashless — Cashless payments are made using cards or electronic methods rather than physical money.
- castable — able to be cast; suitable for casting
- cat flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- cat line — A cat line is a thin cable which is used with other equipment to move small parts of a rig or drill string.
- catalase — an enzyme that catalyses the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide
- catalyse — If something catalyses a thing or a situation, it makes it active.
- catalyze — If something catalyzes a thing or a situation, it makes it active.
- catechol — a colourless crystalline phenol found in resins and lignins; 1,2-dihydroxybenzene. It is used as a photographic developer. Formula: C6H4(OH)2
- cathleen — a female given name, Irish form of Catherine.
- catiline — Latin name Lucius Sergius Catilina. ?108–62 bc, Roman politician: organized an unsuccessful conspiracy against Cicero (63–62)
- catolyte — the part of the electrolyte that surrounds the cathode in an electrolytic cell
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- cattleya — any tropical American orchid of the genus Cattleya, cultivated for their purplish-pink or white showy flowers