7-letter words containing l, y
- clarity — The clarity of something such as a book or argument is its quality of being well explained and easy to understand.
- claying — a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- clayish — Resembling clay.
- claypan — a layer of stiff impervious clay situated just below the surface of the ground, which holds water after heavy rain
- clayton — John Middleton, 1796–1856, U.S. jurist and politician: senator 1829–36, 1845–49, 1853–56; secretary of state 1849–50.
- cleanly — in a fair manner
- clearly — in a clear, distinct, or obvious manner
- clerisy — learned or educated people collectively
- clerkly — of or like a clerk
- cliquey — If you describe a group of people or their behaviour as cliquey, you mean they spend their time only with other members of the group and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
- clooney — George. born 1961, US film actor; starred in the television series ER (1994–99) and the films The Perfect Storm (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002, also directed), Syriana (2005, also directed), and The American (2010)
- closeby — nearby; adjacent; neighboring.
- closely — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- clovery — relating to clover; covered in clover
- cloying — You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental.
- clutchy — (of a person) tending to cling
- clypeus — a cuticular plate on the head of some insects between the labrum and the frons
- clyster — an enema
- clytius — (in the Iliad) a brother of Priam killed by Hercules.
- coalify — to turn into coal
- cockily — in a cocky manner
- codasyl — Conference On DAta SYstems Languages
- colicky — If someone, especially a baby, is colicky, they are suffering from colic.
- coligny — Gaspard de (ɡaspar də), Seigneur de Châtillon. 1519–72, French Huguenot leader
- coloury — possessing colour
- comfily — (informal) comfortably.
- condyle — the rounded projection on the articulating end of a bone, such as the ball portion of a ball-and-socket joint
- corally — Having the shape or form of coral.
- cornfly — a small fly of the genera Oscinis whose larvae cause swollen, gouty stems in cereal crops
- cornily — in a corny manner
- coryell — John Russell, 1848–1924, U.S. author of detective and adventure stories.
- corylus — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Corylus of the Betulaceae family (or the Corylaceae family, depending on the botanist), which bear nuts and are found in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere
- coryzal — relating to coryza
- cosplay — a recreational activity in which people interact with one another while dressed as fictional characters
- courtly — You use courtly to describe someone whose behaviour is very polite, often in a rather old-fashioned way.
- cowedly — in a cowed or frightened manner
- crackly — Something that is crackly, especially a recording or broadcast, has or makes a lot of short, harsh noises.
- crankly — in a crank manner
- crassly — without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.
- crawley — a town in S England, in NE West Sussex: designated a new town in 1956. Pop: 100 547 (2001)
- crayola — /kray-oh'l*/ A super-minicomputer or super-microcomputer that provides some reasonable percentage of supercomputer performance for an unreasonably low price. A crayola might also be a killer micro.
- crazily — If something moves crazily, it moves in a way or in a direction that you do not expect.
- creeley — Robert, 1926–2005, U.S. poet.
- crinkly — A crinkly object has many small creases or folds in it or in its surface.
- crisply — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- crossly — in a cross or angry manner.
- crowley — a city in S Louisiana.
- crudely — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
- cruelly — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.