8-letter words containing cle
- clenches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clench.
- clergies — Plural form of clergy.
- clerical — Clerical jobs, skills, and workers are concerned with work that is done in an office.
- clerihew — a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person
- clerkess — a female office clerk
- clerking — Present participle of clerk.
- clerkish — Like or resembling a clerk.
- cleruchy — (in the ancient world) a special type of Athenian colony, in which settlers (cleruchs) retained their Athenian citizenship and the community remained a political dependency of Athens
- cleveite — a crystalline variety of the mineral uranitite
- cleverer — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- cleverly — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- clevises — plural of clevis.
- coracles — Plural form of coracle.
- cornicle — a wax-secreting organ on an aphid's abdomen that is shaped like a horn
- 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.
- curricle — a two-wheeled open carriage drawn by two horses side by side
- cuticles — Plural form of cuticle.
- cyclecar — a light, open-air automobile with three or four wheels
- cycleway — A cycleway is a road, route, or path for cyclists.
- 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.
- denticle — a small tooth or toothlike part, such as any of the placoid scales of sharks
- ecclesia — an assembly, especially the popular assembly of ancient Athens.
- eclectic — made up of what is selected from different sources.
- encircle — Form a circle around ; surround.
- epicycle — A small circle whose center moves around the circumference of a larger one.
- eteocles — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta. He expelled his brother Polynices from Thebes; they killed each other in single combat when Polynices returned as leader of the Seven against Thebes
- fascicle — a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
- follicle — Anatomy. a small cavity, sac, or gland. one of the small ovarian sacs containing an immature ovum; Graafian follicle.
- fudgicle — An ice-cream (on a stick) flavoured with fudge.
- furuncle — boil2 .
- heraclea — an ancient city in S Italy, near the Gulf of Taranto: Roman defeat 280 b.c.
- heracles — Hercules (def 1).
- hoccleve — Thomas, 1370–1450, English poet.
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- incircle — a circle inscribed within a triangle.
- iphicles — a son of Alcmene and Amphitryon, the brother of Hercules.
- lenticle — a window in a clock case revealing the motion of the pendulum bob.
- listicle — a published article structured in the form of a list, typically having some additional content relating to each item: “The Best Cities for Singles” and other featured listicles.
- macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
- manacled — a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
- manacles — Plural form of manacle.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- monocled — an eyeglass for one eye.
- monocles — Plural form of monocle.
- nuclease — any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of nucleic acids.
- nucleate — having a nucleus.
- nucleoid — the central region in a prokaryotic cell, as a bacterium, that contains the chromosomes and that has no surrounding membrane.
- nucleole — Alternative form of nucleolus.
- nucleoli — a conspicuous, rounded body within the nucleus of a cell.