8-letter words containing el
- chigwell — a town in S England, in W Essex. Pop: 10 128 (2001)
- chiseled — If you say that someone, usually a man, has chiseled features, you mean that their face has a strong, clear bone structure.
- chiseler — a person who cheats or tricks; swindler.
- choicely — With care in choosing; with attention to preference.
- chremzel — a flat cake made from matzo meal, topped or stuffed with a filling, as of ground meat or fruit and nuts.
- ciseleur — a person who is expert in ciselure
- ciselure — the art or process of chasing metal
- citadels — Plural form of citadel.
- claribel — a female given name.
- clitella — a ring or saddle-shaped region of glandular tissue in the body wall of certain annelids, as earthworms and some leeches, that after copulation secretes a cocoon in which the eggs and sperm are deposited for fertilization and development.
- clovelly — a village in SW England, in Devon on the Bristol Channel: famous for its steep cobbled streets: tourism, fishing. Pop: 472 (2001)
- clueless — If you describe someone as clueless, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they do not know anything about a particular subject or that they are incapable of doing a particular thing properly.
- coarsely — composed of relatively large parts or particles: The beach had rough, coarse sand.
- cockerel — A cockerel is a young male chicken.
- codeless — lacking a code
- coelomic — Of, or relating to a coelom.
- cogwheel — a wheel with a rim notched into teeth, which mesh with those of another wheel or of a rack to transmit or receive motion
- coistrel — a knave
- cokelike — resembling coke
- colonels — An army officer of high rank, in particular (in the US Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps) an officer above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.
- comelier — Comparative form of comely.
- comelily — in a comely manner
- comeling — (obsolete) A comer; (person) an arrival.
- conelrad — a US defence and information system used between 1951 and 1963 in the event of air attack
- connelly — Marc(us Cook) 1890–1980, U.S. dramatist.
- consuela — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “consolation.”.
- coppelia — a ballet (1870) by Délibes.
- coquelin — Beˈnoit Consˈtant (bəˈnwa kɔ̃̃ˈstɑ̃) ; bənwȧˈ kōnstänˈ) 1841-1909; Fr. actor
- corbeled — Alternative form of corbelled.
- cordelia — a feminine name
- cordelle — to tow (a boat) with a towrope
- corelate — to correlate.
- coreless — the central part of a fleshy fruit, containing the seeds.
- cork elm — any of several tall elms (genus Ulmus) of the E U.S., with corky ridges, as wahoo
- cornelia — a feminine name
- cornwell — Patricia D(aniels). born 1956, US crime novelist; her novels, many of which feature the pathologist Dr Kay Scarpetta, include Postmortem (1990), The Last Precinct (2000), and Isle of Dogs (2002)
- coromuel — a cooling westerly breeze that flows in from the Pacific over the La Paz region of the southern Baja California peninsula of Mexico.
- corselet — a piece of armour for the top part of the body
- costello — Elvis, real name Declan McManus. born 1954, British rock singer and songwriter. His recordings include This Year's Model (1978), "Oliver's Army" (1979), Spike (1989), Brutal Youth (1994), and When I Was Cruel (2003)
- coteline — a kind of white muslin, either corded or ribbed, manufactured in France and designed for dress material
- councell — Obsolete spelling of council.
- counsell — Obsolete spelling of counsel.
- counsels — Plural form of counsel.
- cowbells — Plural form of cowbell.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- crenelle — Alternative spelling of crenel.
- cribella — Plural form of cribellum.
- cromwell — Oliver. 1599–1658, English general and statesman. A convinced Puritan, he was an effective leader of the parliamentary army in the Civil War. After the execution of Charles I he quelled the Royalists in Scotland and Ireland, and became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (1653–58)
- crousely — in a crouse manner