8-letter words containing s, e, l, c
- couplers — Plural form of coupler.
- couplets — Plural form of couplet.
- cowbells — Plural form of cowbell.
- crackles — Plural form of crackle.
- crawlers — a baby's overalls; rompers
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- creolise — (of a pidgin language) to become the native language of a speech community
- creolist — a student of creole languages
- cresylic — of, concerned with, or containing creosote or cresol
- crewless — with no crew
- cringles — Plural form of cringle.
- crinkles — Plural form of crinkle.
- cripples — Plural form of cripple.
- cropless — without a crop or crops
- crosslet — a cross having a smaller cross near the end of each arm
- crousely — in a crouse manner
- cruelest — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- crullers — Plural form of cruller.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cubicles — A small partitioned-off area of a room, for example one containing a bed in a dwelling or one containing a desk in an office.
- cuffless — having no cuff or cuffs
- culchies — Plural form of culchie.
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- culottes — Culottes are knee-length women's trousers that look like a skirt.
- cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- cureless — a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- curseful — (archaic) horrendous, horrific.
- cusk-eel — any of several eellike, marine fishes of the family Ophidiidae, having the ventral fins located under the throat and so modified as to resemble barbels.
- cusplike — Resembling or characteristic of a cusp.
- cuticles — Plural form of cuticle.
- cutlines — Plural form of cutline.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- cyclones — Plural form of cyclone.
- cyclopes — Plural form of cyclops.
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- declasse — having lost social standing or status
- declines — Plural form of decline.
- decuples — Plural form of decuple.
- deflects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflect.