9-letter words containing t, c, l
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
- close-set — (esp of the eyes) positioned close together
- closeouts — Plural form of closeout.
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- closeting — Present participle of closet.
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- clottered — Simple past tense and past participle of clotter.
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- clouterly — clumsy
- club foot — If someone has a club foot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
- club root — a disease of plants of the cabbage family, caused by a slime mold (Plasmodiophora brassicae) and characterized by swellings of the roots
- club-foot — a knoblike foot formed from the end of a cabriole leg as a continuation of its lines: less flat than a pad foot but otherwise similar.
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- clumsiest — awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
- clustered — If people or things are clustered somewhere, there is a group of them close together there.
- clutchest — to seize with or as with the hands or claws; snatch: The bird swooped down and clutched its prey with its claws.
- clutching — to hatch (chickens).
- cluttered — filled with things or people in an untidy way
- clutterer — One who clutters.
- co-relate — to correlate.
- coagulant — a substance that aids or produces coagulation
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- coalition — A coalition is a government consisting of people from two or more political parties.
- coastally — In a coastal manner.
- coastland — the land fringing a coast
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- coat-tail — the long tapering tails at the back of a man's tailed coat
- coattails — If you do something on the coattails of someone else, you are able to do it because of the other person's success, and not because of your own efforts.
- cobalt 60 — a radioactive isotope of cobalt having a mass number of 60 and a half-life of 5.2 years, used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- 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
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- coccolite — a variety of pyroxene
- coccolith — any of the round calcareous plates in chalk formations: formed the outer layer of unicellular plankton
- 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.
- cocklofts — Plural form of cockloft.
- cocktails — Plural form of cocktail.
- coculture — to culture together
- 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.