8-letter words starting with CL
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter CL. This section showcases how CL at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with CL, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleaning | 11 | the act of making something clean | he gave his shoes a good cleaning |
| clothing | 14 | a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | - |
| climbing | 15 | an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | - |
| clearing | 11 | the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | - |
| clarence | 12 | a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
| clapping | 15 | a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | - |
| cleaners | 10 | shop where dry cleaning is done | - |
| clinical | 12 | scientifically detached; unemotional | he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony |
| clanging | 12 | having a loud resonant metallic sound | a clanging gong |
| clueless | 10 | totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring | - |
| classics | 12 | study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
| clitoris | 10 | a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | - |
| clanking | 15 | having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | clanking chains |
| clinging | 12 | - | - |
| clubbing | 15 | a condition in which the ends of toes and fingers become wide and thick; a symptom of heart or lung disease | - |
| clarinet | 10 | a single-reed instrument with a straight tube | - |
| clucking | 17 | the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) | - |
| clinking | 15 | like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
| clutches | 15 | the act of grasping | - |
| cleavage | 14 | (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | - |
| clippers | 14 | - | - |
| clowning | 14 | a comic incident or series of incidents | - |
| classify | 16 | arrange or order by classes or categories | How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric? |
| clenched | 16 | closed or squeezed together tightly | a clenched fist |
| clipping | 15 | an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | he searched through piles of letters and clippings |
| cleverly | 16 | in a clever manner | they were cleverly arranged |
| clerical | 12 | appropriate for or engaged in office work | clerical skills |
| clemency | 17 | leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | - |
| clocking | 17 | the time taken to traverse a measured course | it was a world record clocking |
| climatic | 14 | of or relating to a climate | climatic changes |
| clogging | 13 | preventing movement | the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street |
| clavicle | 15 | bone linking the scapula and sternum | - |
| claymore | 15 | an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy | - |
| clitoral | 10 | of or relating to the clitoris | - |
| clouding | 12 | the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky | - |
| claptrap | 14 | pompous or pretentious talk or writing | - |
| cleanser | 10 | a preparation used in cleaning something | - |
| clotting | 11 | the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | - |
| clashing | 14 | sharply and harshly discordant | clashing interests of loggers and conservationists |
| cloister | 10 | residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | - |
| clunking | 15 | the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | - |
| classier | 10 | - | - |
| clinched | 16 | closed or squeezed together tightly | his clenched (or clinched) teeth |
| clumsily | 15 | in a clumsy manner | he snatched the bills clumsily |
| clincher | 15 | an argument that is conclusive | - |
| clearway | 16 | a road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown) | - |
| claimant | 12 | someone who claims a benefit or right or title | claimants of unemployment compensation |
| clambake | 18 | a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed | - |
| cleavers | 13 | annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | - |
| cleaving | 14 | - | - |
| clothier | 13 | a merchant who sells men's clothing | - |
| cloudier | 11 | - | - |
| clumping | 15 | the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | - |
| clasping | 13 | - | - |
| clubfoot | 15 | congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes | - |
| clamming | 15 | - | - |
| clannish | 13 | befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | - |
| clappers | 14 | (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | - |
| clerking | 15 | the activity of recording business transactions | - |
| clownish | 16 | like a clown | a clownish face |
| clansman | 12 | a member of a clan | - |
| clematis | 12 | any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers | - |
| clopping | 15 | the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | - |
| clumsier | 12 | - | - |
| clabbers | 14 | - | - |
| clachans | 15 | - | - |
| claching | 16 | - | - |
| clackbox | 25 | - | - |
| clackers | 16 | - | - |
| clacking | 17 | - | - |
| claddagh | 16 | - | - |
| cladders | 12 | - | - |
| claddies | 12 | - | - |
| cladding | 13 | a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | - |
| cladisms | 13 | - | - |
| cladists | 11 | - | - |
| cladodes | 12 | - | - |
| clafouti | 13 | - | - |
| claggier | 12 | - | - |
| clagging | 13 | - | - |
| claimers | 12 | - | - |
| claiming | 13 | - | - |
| clamancy | 17 | - | - |
| clambers | 14 | - | - |
| clamlike | 16 | - | - |
| clammers | 14 | - | - |
| clammier | 14 | - | - |
| clammily | 17 | in a clammy manner | - |
| clamored | 13 | - | - |
| clamorer | 12 | - | - |
| clamours | 12 | - | - |
| clampers | 14 | - | - |
| clamping | 15 | - | - |
| clamworm | 17 | - | - |
| clangbox | 20 | - | - |
| clangers | 11 | - | - |
| clangors | 11 | - | - |
| clangour | 11 | make a loud resonant noise | - |
| clankier | 14 | - | - |
| clanship | 15 | - | - |
| clansmen | 12 | - | - |
| clapdish | 16 | - | - |
| clapnets | 12 | - | - |
| claquers | 19 | - | - |
| claqueur | 19 | - | - |
| clarains | 10 | - | - |
| clareted | 11 | - | - |
| clarinos | 10 | - | - |
| clarions | 10 | - | - |
| clarkias | 14 | - | - |
| clarsach | 15 | - | - |
| clartier | 10 | - | - |
| clarting | 11 | - | - |
| clashers | 13 | - | - |
| claspers | 12 | - | - |
| classers | 10 | - | - |
| classico | 12 | - | - |
| classily | 13 | - | - |
| classing | 11 | - | - |
| classism | 12 | - | - |
| classist | 10 | - | - |
| classman | 12 | - | - |
| classmen | 12 | - | - |
| classons | 10 | - | - |
| clastics | 12 | - | - |
| clatched | 16 | - | - |
| clatches | 15 | - | - |
| clatters | 10 | - | - |
| clattery | 13 | a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | a clattery typewriter |
| clatting | 11 | - | - |
| clauchts | 15 | - | - |
| claughts | 14 | - | - |
| claustra | 10 | - | - |
| clausula | 10 | - | - |
| clauting | 11 | - | - |
| clavated | 14 | - | - |
| clavecin | 15 | - | - |
| clavered | 14 | - | - |
| claviers | 13 | - | - |
| claviger | 14 | - | - |
| clawback | 21 | finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way | the Treasury will find some clawback for the extra benefits members received |
| clawless | 13 | - | - |
| clawlike | 17 | resembling a claw | - |
| claybank | 19 | - | - |
| clayiest | 13 | - | - |
| claylike | 17 | - | - |
| claypans | 15 | - | - |
| clayware | 16 | ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | - |
| cleanest | 10 | - | - |
| cleanish | 13 | - | - |
| cleanout | 10 | - | - |
| cleansed | 11 | - | - |
| cleanses | 10 | - | - |
| cleanups | 12 | - | - |
| clearage | 11 | - | - |
| clearcut | 12 | - | - |
| clearers | 10 | - | - |
| clearest | 10 | - | - |
| clearout | 10 | - | - |
| cleating | 11 | - | - |
| cleckier | 16 | - | - |
| clecking | 17 | - | - |
| cleeking | 15 | - | - |
| cleeping | 13 | - | - |
| clefting | 14 | - | - |
| cleidoic | 13 | - | - |
| clemming | 15 | - | - |
| clencher | 15 | - | - |
| clenches | 15 | - | - |
| clergies | 11 | - | - |
| clerihew | 16 | a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | `The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew |
| clerkdom | 17 | - | - |
| clerkess | 14 | - | - |
| clerkish | 17 | - | - |
| cleruchs | 15 | - | - |
| cleruchy | 18 | - | - |
| cleveite | 13 | - | - |
| cleverer | 13 | - | - |
| clevises | 13 | - | - |
| clicheed | 16 | - | - |
| clickers | 16 | - | - |
| clickets | 16 | - | - |
| clicking | 17 | - | - |
| cliental | 10 | - | - |
| cliffier | 16 | - | - |
| clifftop | 18 | - | - |
| cliftier | 13 | - | - |
| climatal | 12 | - | - |
| climated | 13 | - | - |
| climates | 12 | - | - |
| climaxed | 20 | - | - |
| climaxes | 19 | - | - |
| climbers | 14 | - | - |
| clinally | 13 | - | - |
| clinamen | 12 | - | - |
| clinches | 15 | - | - |
| clingers | 11 | - | - |
| clingier | 11 | - | - |
| clinique | 19 | - | - |
| clinkers | 14 | - | - |
| cliparts | 12 | - | - |
| clippies | 14 | - | - |
| cliquier | 19 | - | - |
| cliquing | 20 | - | - |
| cliquish | 22 | befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | - |
| cliquism | 21 | - | - |
| clitella | 10 | - | - |
| clithral | 13 | - | - |
| clitoric | 12 | of or relating to the clitoris | - |
| clitters | 10 | - | - |
| cloaking | 15 | - | - |
| clobbers | 14 | - | - |
| clochard | 16 | a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | - |
| clockers | 16 | - | - |
| cloddier | 12 | - | - |
| clodding | 13 | - | - |
| cloddish | 15 | heavy and dull and stupid | - |
| clodpate | 13 | - | - |
| clodpole | 13 | - | - |
| clodpoll | 13 | - | - |
| cloggers | 12 | - | - |
| cloggier | 12 | - | - |
| cloggily | 15 | - | - |
| cloisons | 10 | - | - |
| clomping | 15 | - | - |
| clonally | 13 | - | - |
| clonings | 11 | - | - |
| clonisms | 12 | - | - |
| clonkier | 14 | - | - |
| clonking | 15 | - | - |
| clonuses | 10 | - | - |
| closable | 12 | - | - |
| closeout | 10 | a sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock | - |
| closeted | 11 | - | - |
| closeups | 12 | - | - |
| closings | 11 | - | - |
| closured | 11 | - | - |
| closures | 10 | - | - |
| clotburs | 12 | - | - |
| clotpoll | 12 | - | - |
| clotters | 10 | - | - |
| clottier | 10 | - | - |
| clottish | 13 | - | - |
| clotured | 11 | - | - |
| clotures | 10 | - | - |
| cloudage | 12 | - | - |
| cloudily | 14 | - | - |
| cloudlet | 11 | - | - |
| clouring | 11 | - | - |
| clouters | 10 | - | - |
| clouting | 11 | - | - |
| clovered | 14 | - | - |
| clowders | 14 | - | - |
| clownery | 16 | - | - |
| cloyless | 13 | - | - |
| cloyment | 15 | - | - |
| cloysome | 15 | - | - |
| clubable | 14 | inclined to club together | - |
| clubbers | 14 | - | - |
| clubbier | 14 | - | - |
| clubbily | 17 | - | - |
| clubbish | 17 | effusively sociable | a clubbish set |
| clubbism | 16 | - | - |
| clubbist | 14 | - | - |
| clubface | 17 | - | - |
| clubfeet | 15 | - | - |
| clubhand | 16 | - | - |
| clubhaul | 15 | - | - |
| clubhead | 16 | (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball | - |
| clubland | 13 | - | - |
| clublike | 16 | - | - |
| clubmate | 14 | - | - |
| clubmoss | 14 | - | - |
| clubroom | 14 | a room used for the activities of a club | - |
| clubroot | 12 | - | - |
| clubrush | 15 | - | - |
| cluckers | 16 | - | - |
| cluckier | 16 | - | - |
| cludgies | 12 | - | - |
| clumbers | 14 | - | - |
| clumpers | 14 | - | - |
| clumpets | 14 | - | - |
| clumpier | 14 | - | - |
| clumpish | 17 | - | - |
| clunches | 15 | - | - |
| clunkers | 14 | - | - |
| clunkier | 14 | - | - |
| clupeids | 13 | - | - |
| clupeoid | 13 | - | - |
| clusters | 10 | - | - |
| clustery | 13 | - | - |
| clutched | 16 | - | - |
| clutters | 10 | - | - |
| cluttery | 13 | - | - |
| clypeate | 15 | - | - |
| clysters | 13 | - | - |
