8-letter words starting with cl
- clarkson — Thomas. 1760–1846, British campaigner for the abolition of slavery
- clarsach — the Celtic harp of Scotland and Ireland
- clarting — Present participle of clart.
- clashers — to make a loud, harsh noise: The gears of the old car clashed and grated.
- clashier — Comparative form of clashy.
- clashing — to make a loud, harsh noise: The gears of the old car clashed and grated.
- claspers — a paired organ of male insects, used to clasp the female during copulation
- claspeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clasp.
- clasping — (of a leaf) partly or wholly surrounding the stem.
- classest — a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
- classico — (of Italian wines) coming from the Chianti wine-growing region
- classics — ancient Greek and Roman culture considered as a subject for academic study
- classier — of high class, rank, or grade; stylish; admirably smart; elegant.
- classify — To classify things means to divide them into groups or types so that things with similar characteristics are in the same group.
- classily — of high class, rank, or grade; stylish; admirably smart; elegant.
- classing — Present participle of class.
- classism — the belief that people from certain social or economic classes are superior to others
- classist — Of or pertaining to classism.
- classman — a graduate of Oxford University with a classed honours degree
- classmen — Plural form of classman.
- clathrin — a basketlike network of protein molecules that forms on the cell membrane in response to the attachment of ligands to receptors and becomes the inside surface of the coated vesicle during endocytosis.
- clatters — Plural form of clatter.
- clattery — (informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.
- claudine — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- claudius — full name Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus. 10 bc–54 ad, Roman emperor (41–54); invaded Britain (43); poisoned by his fourth wife, Agrippina
- clausing — (shipping) present participle of clause.
- clausius — Rudolf Julius (ˈruːdɔlf ˈjuːliʊs). 1822–88, German physicist and mathematician. He enunciated the second law of thermodynamics (1850) and developed the kinetic theory of gases
- claustra — barrier.
- clausula — a type of musical cadence
- clavacin — patulin.
- clavated — Clavate; club-shaped.
- clavecin — a harpsichord
- clavicle — Your clavicles are your collar bones.
- claviers — Plural form of clavier.
- claviger — a key- or club-bearer
- clavinet — An electrophonic keyboard instrument, an electronically amplified clavichord with a distinctive bright staccato sound.
- claw bar — a crowbar or lever having a bend at one end with a claw for pulling spikes.
- claw off — to avoid the dangers of (a lee shore or other hazard) by beating
- clawback — the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or penalty
- clawfoot — (medicine, uncountable) A condition of the human foot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantar flexion.
- clawless — Having no claws.
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- clay pit — a pit or mine from which clay is extracted
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- clayborn — a male given name.
- claylike — a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- claymore — a large two-edged broadsword used formerly by Scottish Highlanders
- claypans — Plural form of claypan.
- clayware — pottery
- clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.