9-letter words containing cl
- overclock — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- overclose — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- overcloud — to overspread with or as if with clouds: a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
- packcloth — a cloth used for packing
- paperclip — a flat wire or plastic clip shaped so that it can hold sheets of paper between two of its loops.
- paraclete — an advocate or intercessor.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- pay claim — the wage or salary asked for workers by trade union representatives from employers
- pendicler — the holder or renter of a pendicle
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- periclean — of or relating to Pericles or to the period (Periclean Age) when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.
- pericline — a variety of albite occurring in large, white opaque crystals.
- pericycle — the outermost cell layer of the stele in a plant, frequently becoming a multilayered zone.
- pipe clay — a white, plastic clay used for making clay tobacco pipes or pottery, for whitening leather, etc.
- pipe-clay — to whiten with pipe clay.
- pony club — an international youth organization that educates young people about horses and horse riding
- pre-clean — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- precluded — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- proclisis — the pronunciation of a word as a proclitic
- proclitic — (of a word) closely connected in pronunciation with the following word and not having an independent accent or phonological status.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- quitclaim — a transfer of all one's interest, as in a parcel of real estate, especially without a warranty of title.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- razorclam — type of mollusc with a long, narrow shell
- reacclaim — to acclaim again
- reclaimer — to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
- reclassed — a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
- reclasses — a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
- reclinate — bending or curved downward.
- reclining — person: lying back
- reclusely — in a solitary or recluse manner, as or like a recluse; reclusively
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- reclusory — a recluse's dwelling or cell
- recyclate — material that is recyclable
- recycling — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- recyclist — a person who recycles
- red cloud — 1822-1909; Dakota Indian chief
- redeclare — to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy.
- rio claro — a city in São Paulo state, in SE Brazil.
- run close — to compete closely with; present a serious challenge to
- sackcloth — sacking.
- sailcloth — any of various fabrics, as of cotton, nylon, or Dacron, for boat sails or tents.
- say uncle — a brother of one's father or mother.
- scleritis — inflammation of the sclera.
- sclerosal — Pathology. a hardening or induration of a tissue or part, or an increase of connective tissue or the like at the expense of more active tissue.
- sclerosed — hardened or indurated, as by sclerosis.
- sclerosis — Pathology. a hardening or induration of a tissue or part, or an increase of connective tissue or the like at the expense of more active tissue.
- sclerotal — a bony area or plate found in the sclerotic (the eyeball covering) of some animals