English words starting with cl

Meanings of Cl:

abbreviation

Centilitre.

Usage examples:

70 cl bottles

noun

A metric unit of capacity, equal to one hundredth of a litre.

The chemical element chlorine.

Meanings of Clabber:

noun

Milk that has naturally clotted on souring.

Usage examples:

Southerners preferred corn dodgers or pone and pork and clabber rather than yankee beef.

verb

Curdle or cause to curdle.

Usage examples:

She needed rainwater to clabber the milk

Meanings of Clabbered:

verb

Curdle or cause to curdle.

Usage examples:

She needed rainwater to clabber the milk

noun

Milk that has naturally clotted on souring.

Usage examples:

Southerners preferred corn dodgers or pone and pork and clabber rather than yankee beef.

adjective

Allowed to become sour and thick, or made from sour milk that has become thick

Usage examples:

If buttermilk isn't available, clabbered milk can be used instead., there are two ways to make curd…

Meanings of Clabbering:

verb

Curdle or cause to curdle.

Usage examples:

She needed rainwater to clabber the milk

noun

Milk that has naturally clotted on souring.

Usage examples:

Southerners preferred corn dodgers or pone and pork and clabber rather than yankee beef.

Meanings of Clabbers:

verb

Curdle or cause to curdle.

Usage examples:

She needed rainwater to clabber the milk

noun

Milk that has naturally clotted on souring.

Usage examples:

Southerners preferred corn dodgers or pone and pork and clabber rather than yankee beef.

Meanings of Clachan:

noun

(in scotland or northern ireland) a small village or hamlet.

Usage examples:

Our developments anchor on the idea of the clachan or hamlet.

Meanings of Clachans:

noun

(in scotland or northern ireland) a small village or hamlet.

Usage examples:

Our developments anchor on the idea of the clachan or hamlet.

Meanings of Clack:

verb

Make a sharp sound or series of sounds as a result of a hard object striking another.

Usage examples:

He heard the sound of her heels clacking across flagstones

noun

A sharp sound or series of sounds.

Usage examples:

The clack of her high heels

Meanings of Clacked:

verb

Make a sharp sound or series of sounds as a result of a hard object striking another.

Usage examples:

He heard the sound of her heels clacking across flagstones

noun

A sharp sound or series of sounds.

Usage examples:

The clack of her high heels

Meanings of Clacket:

verb

Make a series of sharp sounds as a result of a hard object striking another.

Usage examples:

The tranquil clacketing of the train

Meanings of Clacking:

verb

Make a sharp sound or series of sounds as a result of a hard object striking another.

Usage examples:

He heard the sound of her heels clacking across flagstones

noun

A sharp sound or series of sounds.

Usage examples:

The clack of her high heels

Meanings of Clacks:

verb

Make a sharp sound or series of sounds as a result of a hard object striking another.

Usage examples:

He heard the sound of her heels clacking across flagstones

noun

A sharp sound or series of sounds.

Usage examples:

The clack of her high heels

Meanings of Clactonian:

adjective

Relating to or denoting a lower palaeolithic culture of europe dated to about 250,000–200,000 years ago.

Usage examples:

It suggests that the clactonian and acheulian stone-tool assemblages were in fact contemporary.

noun

The period of a lower palaeolithic culture of europe dated to about 250,000–200,000 years ago.

Meanings of Clad:

adjective

Past participle of clothe.

verb

Encase (a structure) with a covering or coating.

Usage examples:

He cladded the concrete-frame structure in stainless steel

Meanings of Cladding:

noun

A covering or coating on a structure or material.

Usage examples:

Timber cladding

verb

Encase (a structure) with a covering or coating.

Usage examples:

He cladded the concrete-frame structure in stainless steel

Meanings of Claddings:

noun

A covering or coating on a structure or material.

Usage examples:

Timber cladding

Meanings of Clade:

noun

A group of organisms believed to comprise all the evolutionary descendants of a common ancestor.

Usage examples:

The great ape and human clade

Meanings of Cladocera:

plural noun

An order of minute branchiopod crustaceans which includes the water fleas. they typically have a transparent shell enclosing the trunk, and large antennae which are used for swimming.

Usage examples:

As a juvenile, pomoxis nigromaculatus feeds mainly on microscopic prey such as cyclops, cladocera, …

Meanings of Cladoceran:

noun

A minute branchiopod crustacean of the order cladocera, which includes the water fleas.

Usage examples:

Adult land-locked fish eat mostly zooplankton, especially larger varieties such as copepods, cladoc…

adjective

Relating to or denoting cladocerans.

Usage examples:

Two current areas of research promise to enhance developmental studies on cladoceran hemoglobins, h…

Meanings of Cladode:

noun

A flattened leaflike stem.

Usage examples:

At the time of anthesis, 80 flowers growing on 16 terminal cladodes (five flowers per cladode, with…

Meanings of Cladodes:

noun

A flattened leaflike stem.

Usage examples:

At the time of anthesis, 80 flowers growing on 16 terminal cladodes (five flowers per cladode, with…

Meanings of Cladogenesis:

noun

The formation of a new group of organisms or higher taxon by evolutionary divergence from an ancestral form.

Usage examples:

This process of organic transformation includes anagenesis as well as cladogenesis.

Meanings of Cladophyll:

noun

A flattened leaflike stem.

Usage examples:

At the time of anthesis, 80 flowers growing on 16 terminal cladodes (five flowers per cladode, with…

Meanings of Clads:

verb

Encase (a structure) with a covering or coating.

Usage examples:

He cladded the concrete-frame structure in stainless steel

adjective

Clothed.

Usage examples:

They were clad in t-shirts and shorts

Meanings of Clag:

noun

Sticky mud or dirt.

Usage examples:

That weird clag that fills your back yards and covers your roads