5-letter words starting with cl
- clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
- climb — If you climb something such as a tree, mountain, or ladder, or climb up it, you move towards the top of it. If you climb down it, you move towards the bottom of it.
- clime — You use clime in expressions such as warmer climes and foreign climes to refer to a place that has a particular kind of climate.
- climp — Misspelling of climb.
- clin- — clino-
- cline — a continuous variation in form between members of a species having a wide variable geographical or ecological range
- cling — If you cling to someone or something, you hold onto them tightly.
- clink — If objects made of glass, pottery, or metal clink or if you clink them, they touch each other and make a short, light sound.
- clint — a section of a limestone pavement separated from adjacent sections by solution fissures
- clips — C Language Integrated Production System
- clipt — a past participle of clip1 .
- clisp — (language) 1. Conversational LISP. 2. A Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll. of Munich University, both in Germany. CLISP includes an interpreter, bytecode compiler, almost all of the CLOS object system, a foreign language interface and a socket interface. An X11 interface is available through CLX and Garnet. Command line editing is provided by the GNU readline library. CLISP requires only 2 MB of RAM. The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian and can be changed at run time. CLISP is Free Software and distributed under the GPL. It runs on microcomputers (OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Amiga, Acorn) as well as on Unix workstations (Linux, BSD, SVR4, Sun4, Alpha, HP-UX, NeXTstep, SGI, AIX, Sun3, and others).
- clite — Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- clits — Plural form of clit.
- clive — Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey. 1725–74, British general and statesman, whose victory at Plassey (1757) strengthened British control in India
- cllr. — Cllr. is a written abbreviation for councillor.
- cloak — A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.
- cloam — made of clay or earthenware
- clock — A clock is an instrument, for example in a room or on the outside of a building, that shows what time of day it is.
- clods — Plural form of clod.
- cloff — the cleft of a tree
- clogs — Plural form of clog.
- cloke — Archaic spelling of cloak.
- clomb — climb
- clomp — to walk heavily or noisily; clump
- clone — If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
- clong — (obsolete) Past participle of cling.
- clonk — to make a loud dull thud
- cloop — the sound made when a cork is drawn from a bottle
- cloot — a hoof
- clops — Plural form of clop.
- close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- clote — the burdock
- cloth — Cloth is fabric which is made by weaving or knitting a substance such as cotton, wool, silk, or nylon. Cloth is used especially for making clothes.
- clots — Plural form of clot.
- cloud — A cloud is a mass of water vapour that floats in the sky. Clouds are usually white or grey in colour.
- clour — a bump on the head
- clout — If you clout someone, you hit them.
- clove — Cloves are small dried flower buds used as a spice.
- clown — A clown is a performer in a circus who wears funny clothes and bright make-up, and does silly things in order to make people laugh.
- cloye — to claw
- cloys — to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
- cloze — In language teaching, a cloze test is a test in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The learner has to fill each space with a suitable word.
- cltl1 — (publication) A report on Common LISP:
- cltl2 — Aluminum Book
- clu2c — (tool) A CLU to C compiler.
- clubs — the suit of cards marked with the black trefoil symbol
- cluck — When a hen clucks, it makes short, low noises.
- clued — Simple past tense and past participle of clue.
- clues — Plural form of clue.