9-letter words that end in l
- chargeful — onerous; expensive
- chargrill — to grill (meat) over charcoal
- chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- cheerfull — Archaic form of cheerful.
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
- chili oil — an edible oil spiced with chili peppers, often used in Chinese cookery.
- chin ball — a device fastened under the chin of a bull to mark cows it has mounted
- china oil — a dark, molasseslike, aromatic, water-insoluble liquid having a warm, bitter taste, obtained from the leguminous tree, Myroxylon pereirae, of Central America: used in medicine, perfumery, and in the manufacture of chocolate.
- chloranil — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 6 Cl 4 O 2 , used chiefly as a fungicide and as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
- chockfull — Alternative form of chock full.
- choiceful — having an inability to make decisive choices
- choirgirl — a girl who sings in a church choir
- chokecoil — a type of electronic inductor
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chow hall — canteen, refectory
- chronical — relating to or controlled by time
- churchill — a river in E Canada, rising in SE Labrador and flowing north and southeast over Churchill Falls, then east to the Atlantic. Length: about 1000 km (600 miles)
- circuital — an act or instance of going or moving around.
- cissexual — noting or relating to a person who is comfortable with having the physical characteristics of that person’s biological sex.
- city hall — The city hall is the building which a city council uses as its main offices.
- cladodial — resembling a cladode
- clamshell — a dredging bucket that is hinged like the shell of a clam
- classical — You use classical to describe something that is traditional in form, style, or content.
- claustral — of or related to a cloister
- cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
- clergical — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; learned.
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- clove oil — a volatile pale-yellow aromatic oil obtained from clove flowers, formerly much used in confectionery, dentistry, and microscopy
- club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
- coal ball — a spherical mass of mineral and plant material embedded in coal beds, ranging in size from that of a pea to that of a boulder.
- coat-tail — the long tapering tails at the back of a man's tailed coat
- coccoidal — relating to a coccus
- coccygeal — a small triangular bone forming the lower extremity of the spinal column in humans, consisting of four ankylosed rudimentary vertebrae.
- cochineal — Cochineal is a red substance that is used for colouring food.
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- cockerell — Sir Christopher Sydney. 1910–99, British engineer, who invented the hovercraft
- cocounsel — to counsel jointly
- coeternal — existing together eternally
- coitional — of or relating to coitus
- cold call — If someone makes a cold call, they telephone or visit someone they have never contacted, without making an appointment, in order to try and sell something.
- cold-call — a visit or telephone call to a prospective customer without an appointment or a previous introduction.
- cold-roll — to roll (metal) at a temperature below that at which recrystallization occurs.
- collegial — of or relating to a college
- colloidal — of, denoting, or having the character of a colloid
- colluvial — loose earth material that has accumulated at the base of a hill, through the action of gravity, as piles of talus, avalanche debris, and sheets of detritus moved by soil creep or frost action.