8-letter words containing l, o, i, c, n
- clownish — If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- cnidocil — a hairlike sensory process projecting from the surface of a cnidoblast, believed to trigger the discharge of the nematocyst.
- coalmine — a system of excavations made for the extraction of coal
- cobbling — to pave with cobblestones.
- cockling — Present participle of cockle.
- coddling — Act in a sissifying way.
- codlings — Plural form of codling.
- coffling — Present participle of coffle.
- cogenial — Alternative spelling of congenial.
- colamine — ethanolamine.
- colatina — a city in SE Brazil.
- colation — The act of straining or filtering; filtration.
- colicine — an antibacterial protein
- colinear — collinear.
- colistin — a polymyxin antibiotic
- colonial — Colonial means relating to countries that are colonies, or to colonialism.
- colonias — (in the southwestern U.S.) a city neighborhood or a rural settlement inhabited predominantly by Mexicans or Mexican Americans.
- colonics — of or relating to the colon.
- colonies — the subject territories formerly in the British Empire
- colonise — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- colonist — Colonists are the people who start a colony or the people who are among the first to live in a particular colony.
- colonize — If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
- color in — If you color in a drawing, you give it different colors using crayons or paints.
- coloring — The coloring of something is the color or colors that it is.
- comeling — (obsolete) A comer; (person) an arrival.
- comingle — Alternative spelling of commingle.
- commlink — (scifi) A communications link.
- complain — to make an accusation; bring a formal charge
- compline — the last of the seven canonical hours of the divine office
- conarial — of or relating to the conarium
- conflict — Conflict is serious disagreement and argument about something important. If two people or groups are in conflict, they have had a serious disagreement or argument and have not yet reached agreement.
- conidial — of or like conidia
- conkling — Roscoe, 1829–88, U.S. lawyer and politician: senator 1867–81.
- conoidal — Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
- contline — the space between the bilges of stowed casks
- contrail — a white trail of condensed water vapor that sometimes forms in the wake of an aircraft; vapor trail
- convival — (obsolete) Relating to a feast or festivity; convivial.
- cooingly — In a cooing way.
- coolings — Plural form of cooling.
- coquelin — Beˈnoit Consˈtant (bəˈnwa kɔ̃̃ˈstɑ̃) ; bənwȧˈ kōnstänˈ) 1841-1909; Fr. actor
- corn oil — an oil prepared from maize, used in cooking and in making soaps, lubricants, etc
- cornelia — a feminine name
- cornicle — a wax-secreting organ on an aphid's abdomen that is shaped like a horn
- cornmill — a mill for making flour
- cornsilk — The fine threadlike styles on an ear of corn.
- coronial — of or relating to a coroner
- coteline — a kind of white muslin, either corded or ribbed, manufactured in France and designed for dress material
- cotillon — cotillion.
- coughlin — Charles Edward ("Father Coughlin") 1891–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, activist, radio broadcaster, and editor, born in Canada.
- councils — Plural form of council.