6-letter words containing le
- candle — A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light.
- cangle — to wrangle
- cankle — a thickened area between the calf and ankle in an overweight person, obscuring where one ends and the other begins
- cantle — the back part of a saddle that slopes upwards
- caples — Plural form of caple.
- caplet — A caplet is an oval tablet of medicine.
- carole — a female given name.
- castle — A castle is a large building with thick, high walls. Castles were built by important people, such as kings, in former times, especially for protection during wars and battles.
- cattle — Cattle are cows and bulls.
- caudle — a hot spiced wine drink made with gruel, formerly used medicinally
- cawley — Evonne (née Goolagong). born 1951, Australian tennis player: winner of seven Grand Slam singles titles including Wimbledon (1971,1980) and the Australian Open (1974–76, 1977 (December))
- cayley — Arthur. 1821–93, British mathematician, who invented matrices
- cecile — a feminine name
- ceiled — to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- ceiler — a canopy or tapestry covering a bed or wall
- celebs — Plural form of celeb.
- celery — Celery is a vegetable with long pale green stalks. It is eaten raw in salads.
- celled — containing or divided into compartments or cells
- cerule — (poetic) Cerulean.
- chalet — A chalet is a small wooden house, especially in a mountain area or a holiday camp.
- chicle — a gumlike substance obtained from the sapodilla; the main ingredient of chewing gum
- chiles — Plural form of chile, an alternative form of 'chili'.
- chole- — indicating bile or gall
- cholee — a short-sleeved blouse or bodice, often one exposing part of the midriff, worn by Hindu women in India.
- choler — anger or ill humour
- cigale — (language, tool) A parser generator language with extensible syntax.
- Çiller — Tansu (ˈtænzuː). born 1945, Turkish politician; first female prime minister (1993–96)
- circle — A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area.
- cisele — noting or pertaining to velvet having a chiseled or embossed pattern produced by contrasting cut and uncut pile.
- citole — cittern
- cleane — Obsolete spelling of clean.
- cleans — Plural form of clean.
- cleare — Obsolete spelling of clear.
- clears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clear.
- cleary — Beverly, born 1916, U.S. author.
- cleats — Plural form of cleat.
- cleave — To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
- cleché — voided so that only a narrow border is visible
- cledge — (mining) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
- cleese — John (Marwood). born 1939, British comedy writer and actor, noted for the TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–74) and Fawlty Towers (1975, 1978). His films include A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and Fierce Creatures (1997)
- cleeve — a cliff
- clefts — Plural form of cleft.
- 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