6-letter words starting with cl
- clem's — a male given name, form of Clement.
- clench — When you clench your fist or your fist clenches, you curl your fingers up tightly, usually because you are very angry.
- cleoid — a claw-shaped dental instrument used to remove carious material from a cavity.
- cleome — any herbaceous or shrubby plant of the mostly tropical capparidaceous genus Cleome, esp C. spinosa, cultivated for their clusters of white or purplish flowers with long stamens
- cleped — to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
- clergy — The clergy are the official leaders of the religious activities of a particular group of believers.
- cleric — A cleric is a member of the clergy.
- clerid — a beetle that preys on other insects
- clerks — Plural form of clerk.
- clerky — Clerklike; clerkish.
- cletus — Anacletus.
- clever — Someone who is clever is intelligent and able to understand things easily or plan things well.
- cleves — Per Teodor [par tey-aw-dawr] /pær ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1840–1905, Swedish chemist.
- clevis — the U-shaped component of a shackle for attaching a drawbar to a plough or similar implement
- clewed — Simple past tense and past participle of clew.
- cliche — A cliché is an idea or phrase which has been used so much that it is no longer interesting or effective or no longer has much meaning.
- clichy — an industrial suburb of NW Paris: residence of the Merovingian kings (7th century). Pop: 58 646 (2007)
- clicks — Plural form of click.
- client — A client of a professional person or organization is a person or company that receives a service from them in return for payment.
- cliffs — Plural form of cliff.
- cliffy — abounding in or formed by cliffs: a cliffy shoreline.
- climax — The climax of something is the most exciting or important moment in it, usually near the end.
- climbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of climb.
- climes — Plural form of clime.
- clinal — Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- clinch — If you clinch something you are trying to achieve, such as a business deal or victory in a contest, you succeed in obtaining it.
- clines — Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- clings — Plural form of cling.
- clingy — If you describe someone as clingy, you mean that they become very attached to people and depend on them too much.
- clinic — A clinic is a building where people go to receive medical advice or treatment.
- clinid — any of the blennioid fishes of the family Clinidae, of tropical and subtropical seas.
- clinks — Plural form of clink.
- clino- — indicating a slope or inclination
- clique — If you describe a group of people as a clique, you mean that they spend a lot of time together and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
- cliquy — a small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.
- clisis — the act or process of becoming a clitic.
- clitar — (uncommon, humorous, slang) The clitoris. only used in play the clitar.
- clitch — Alternative form of clutch.
- clites — Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- clitic — (of a word) incapable of being stressed, usually pronounced as if part of the word that follows or precedes it: for example, in French, me, te, and le are clitic pronouns
- cliver — (obsolete, or, dialectal) clever.
- clivia — a plant belonging to the family Amaryllidaceae
- cloaca — a cavity in the pelvic region of most vertebrates, except higher mammals, and certain invertebrates, into which the alimentary canal and the genital and urinary ducts open
- cloaks — Plural form of cloak.
- cloath — (obsolete) cloth.
- cloche — A cloche is a long, low cover made of glass or clear plastic that is put over young plants to protect them from the cold.
- clocks — Plural form of clock.
- cloddy — a lump or mass, especially of earth or clay.
- clodly — heavily; in a clod-like manner
- cloete — Stuart, 1897–1976, South African novelist, born in France.