6-letter words containing c, l, i
- flinch — to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.
- flitch — the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.
- flocci — a small tuft of woolly hairs.
- frolic — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- fulvic — Of or pertaining to fulvic acid or its derivatives.
- gaelic — a Celtic language that includes the speech of ancient Ireland and the dialects that have developed from it, especially those usually known as Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic. Gaelic constitutes the Goidelic subbranch of Celtic.
- gallic — pertaining to the Gauls or Gaul.
- garlic — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- giclee — Alternative spelling of giclée.
- glacis — a gentle slope.
- glitch — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
- glycin — a poisonous crystalline compound, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , used as a photographic developer.
- heliac — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- holmic — of or containing the element holmium.
- icicle — a pendent, tapering mass of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
- illiac — Assembly language for the ILLIAC computer. Listed in CACM 2(5):16, (May 1959) p.16.
- illich — Ivan. 1926–2002. US teacher and writer, born in Austria. His books include Deschooling Society (1971), Medical Nemesis (1975), and In the Mirror of the Past (1991)
- imbolc — an ancient Celtic festival associated with the goddess Brigit, held on Feb 1 or 2 to mark the beginning of spring. It is also celebrated by modern pagans
- incall — A visit by a client to a prostitute.
- inclip — to grasp or enclose.
- incult — wild; rude; unrefined.
- inlace — enlace.
- inlock — to lock up
- italic — designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type.
- izalco — an active volcano in W El Salvador. 6070 feet (1850 meters).
- keltic — Celt.
- kielce — a city in S Poland.
- kulich — a sweetened, dome-shaped yeast bread, rich in butter and eggs and also containing raisins and topped with a sugar icing: traditionally made at Easter and served with paskha.
- lacier — Comparative form of lacy.
- lacily — in a lacy manner or pattern
- lacing — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lactic — of, relating to, or obtained from milk.
- lactin — (obsolete) lactose.
- laical — (archaic) Of or pertaining to a layman or laity.
- lambic — A strong, sweet Belgian beer.
- lauric — of or derived from lauric acid.
- lclint — (tool, programming) A lint-like ANSI C source checker from MIT. If formal specifications are supplied (in a separate file), lclint can do more powerful checking to detect inconsistencies between specifications and code. Adding specifications enables further checking, types can be defined as abstract and lclint can detect inconsistent use of global variables; undocumented modification of client-visible state; inconsistent use of an uninitialised formal parameter; or failure to initialise an actual parameter.
- le cid — The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- lectin — any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- lentic — pertaining to or living in still water.
- lesbic — relating to lesbians
- lettic — of or relating to the Letts or their language.
- leucin — Dated form of leucine.
- lexica — a wordbook or dictionary, especially of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew.
- lichee — the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.
- lichen — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- licked — Simple past tense and past participle of lick.
- licker — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- lictor — (in ancient Rome) one of a body of attendants on chief magistrates, who preceded them carrying the fasces and whose duties included executing the sentences of criminals.
- lidice — a village in the W Czech Republic: suffered a ruthless reprisal by the Nazis in 1942 for the assassination of a high Nazi official.