9-letter words containing t, a, c, l, e
- clathrate — resembling a net or lattice
- clattered — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clatterer — One who clatters.
- claudette — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- clean out — If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- clean-cut — Someone, especially a boy or man, who is clean-cut has a neat, tidy appearance.
- cleantech — (industry) Technologies that support increased productivity or profitability while also reducing resource consumption or pollution.
- cleanthes — ?300–?232 bc, Greek philosopher: succeeded Zeno as head of the Stoic school
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- clear-cut — Something that is clear-cut is easy to recognize and quite distinct.
- cleartext — (cryptography) The unencrypted form of an encrypted text; plain text.
- cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clericate — a clerical post
- clientage — a body of clients; clientele.
- climatise — in Australia, adapt or become accustomed to a new climate or environment
- climatize — to acclimate to a new environment.
- clitellar — relating to the clitellum of earthworms
- clodpated — stupid
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- co-relate — to correlate.
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- cobaltite — a rare silvery-white mineral consisting of cobalt arsenic sulphide in cubic crystalline form: a major ore of cobalt, used in ceramics. Formula: CoAsS
- cochleate — shaped like a snail's shell; spirally twisted
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- coelomata — animals possessing a coelom
- coelomate — an animal that possesses a coelom
- coelostat — an astronomical instrument consisting of a plane mirror mounted parallel to the earth's axis and rotated about this axis once every two days so that light from a celestial body, esp the sun, is reflected onto a second mirror, which reflects the beam into a telescope
- coeternal — existing together eternally
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- cogitable — conceivable
- cognately — In a way that is cognate.
- cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- collative — involving collation
- colligate — to connect or link together; tie; join
- collimate — to adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
- collocate — In linguistics, a collocate of a particular word is another word which often occurs with that word.
- colocated — Simple past tense and past participle of colocate.
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- compilate — (rare) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
- compleats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compleat.
- comptable — countable
- conflated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflate.
- conflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conflate.
- connately — In a connate fashion.
- consolate — to console (a person)