8-letter words containing u, c, l, e
- cruelled — Simple past tense and past participle of cruel.
- crueller — Comparative form of cruel.
- crueltie — Obsolete spelling of cruelty.
- crullers — Plural form of cruller.
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- crumenal — a purse
- crumpled — creased
- 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.
- cuddlier — suitable for or inviting cuddling: a cuddly teddy bear.
- cudgeled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cudgeler — One who beats with a cudgel.
- cue ball — the ball struck by the cue, as distinguished from the object balls
- cuffless — having no cuff or cuffs
- culchies — Plural form of culchie.
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- culloden — a moor near Inverness in N Scotland: site of a battle in 1746 in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites under Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- culottes — Culottes are knee-length women's trousers that look like a skirt.
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- culpeper — Nicholas. 1616–54, English herbalist and astrologer; his unauthorized translation (1649) of the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia and his Herbal (1653) popularized herbalism
- cultigen — a species of plant that is known only as a cultivated form and did not originate from a wild type
- cultlike — resembling a cult
- cultrate — shaped like a knife blade
- cultured — If you describe someone as cultured, you mean that they have good manners, are well educated, and know a lot about the arts.
- 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.
- culverin — a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- cumulate — to accumulate
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- cure-all — A cure-all is something that is believed, usually wrongly, to be able to solve all the problems someone or something has, or to cure a wide range of illnesses.
- cureless — a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- curlicue — Curlicues are decorative twists and curls, usually carved or made with a pen.
- curlycue — an ornamental, fancy curl or twist, as in a signature.
- curricle — a two-wheeled open carriage drawn by two horses side by side
- 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.
- cut-pile — having a pile with yarns that are cut instead of looped: a cut-pile carpet.
- cuticles — Plural form of cuticle.
- cutlines — Plural form of cutline.
- cuttable — capable of being cut
- cynewulf — ?8th century ad, Anglo-Saxon poet; author of Juliana, The Ascension, Elene, and The Fates of the Apostles
- decidual — the endometrium of a pregnant uterus that in many of the higher mammals is cast off at parturition.
- declutch — to disengage the clutch of a motor vehicle