5 Letter Words That Start With CL

clear

Adjective : Transparent in colour.

Adjective : Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.

Adjective : Free of obstacles.

cling

Noun : Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.

Noun : adherence; attachment; devotion

Noun : An ornament that clings to a window so as to be seen from outside.

cloud

Noun : (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.

Noun : A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

Noun : Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

class

Noun : (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

Noun : (sociology, countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.

Noun : (uncountable) The division of society into classes.

claim

Noun : A demand of ownership made for something.

Noun : The thing claimed.

Noun : The right or ground of demanding.

cleet

close

Verb : (physical) To remove a gap.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.

Verb : To obstruct or block.

clean

Adjective : (physical) Free of dirt or impurities.

Adjective : Not dirty, filthy, or soiled.

Adjective : In an unmarked condition.

clock

Noun : A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.

Noun : (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.

Noun : (Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.

cloth

Noun : (countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.

Noun : Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.

Noun : (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.

clout

Noun : (informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.

Noun : (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.

Noun : (baseball, informal) A home run.

clash

Noun : (onomatopoeia) A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects.

Noun : A skirmish, a hostile encounter.

Noun : (sports) match; a game between two sides.

clerk

Noun : One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

Noun : A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.

Noun : A law clerk.

clamp

Noun : A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.

Noun : (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.

Noun : (UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.

click

Noun : A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.

Noun : (Britain) The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.

Noun : (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.

cloak

Noun : A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

Noun : A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

Noun : (figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.

cleft

Noun : An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.

Noun : A piece made by splitting.

Noun : A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

climb

Verb : (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.

Verb : (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.

Verb : (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.

clasp

Noun : A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps.

Noun : (in the singular) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.

Verb : (transitive) To take hold of; to grasp.

clown

Noun : A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.

Noun : A person who acts in a silly fashion.

Noun : A stupid or badly-behaved person.

cleat

Noun : A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

Noun : A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.

Noun : (nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.

clove

Noun : (uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

Noun : (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.

Noun : (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.

cliff

Noun : A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.

Noun : (figurative) A point beyond which something abruptly fails or decreases in value, performance, etc.

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Clifford or Clifton.

clump

Noun : A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.

Noun : A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.

Noun : A dull thud.

clone

Noun : A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.

Noun : (cytology) A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.

Noun : A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.

clark

Noun : An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a scribe, secretary, or cleric.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A locale in the United States:

clave

Noun : (music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.

clime

Noun : A particular region defined by its weather or climate.

Noun : Climate.

cluck

Noun : The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

Noun : Any sound similar to this.

Noun : A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.

clung

Adjective : (obsolete) wasted away; shrunken

cline

Noun : (systematics) A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.

Noun : Any graduated continuum.

Noun : (geometry, inversive geometry) A generalized circle.

clack

Noun : An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.

Noun : Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.

Noun : Chatter; prattle.

clade

Noun : (systematics) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.

Noun : (genetics) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.

Verb : To be part of a clade; to form a clade.

clink

Noun : (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.

Noun : Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

clair

Noun : A female given name from French.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A village in New Brunswick, Canada

clang

Noun : A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.

Noun : Quality of tone.

Noun : The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.

cleer

Verb : Obsolete spelling of clear. [(transitive) To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.]

Adjective : Obsolete spelling of clear. [Transparent in colour.]

clint

Noun : A male given name.

Noun : A village in Clint cum Hamlets parish, Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2659).

Noun : A town in El Paso County, Texas, United States, named after settler Mary Clinton Collins.

clepe

Verb : (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To give a call; cry out; appeal.

Verb : (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call upon; cry out to.

Verb : (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call to oneself; invite; summon.

clara

Noun : A female given name from Latin.

Noun : A town in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, France; named Clara-Villerach since 2017.

Noun : A town in County Offaly, Ireland.

cleek

Noun : (chiefly Scotland) A large hook.

Noun : (golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent in a modern set of clubs to a one or two iron or a four wood.

Verb : (golf, dated, transitive) To strike with the club called a cleek.

clare

Noun : A county of Ireland.

Noun : A town in County Cavan, Ireland.

Noun : A district municipality in Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after County Clare.

claud

Noun : A male given name from Latin.

Noun : A surname transferred from the given name.

clive

Noun : A topographic surname from Old English - someone who lived near a cliff (Old English clif).

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname. Popular in Britain in mid-twentieth century.

Noun : A village in Alberta.

clyde

Noun : A major river in Scotland, flowing from South Lanarkshire council area, past North Lanarkshire council area, through Glasgow council area, and past Renfrewshire council area and West Dunbartonshire council area, to the Firth of Clyde.

Noun : A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Noun : A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

clank

Noun : A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a clanking sound

Verb : (transitive) To cause to sound with a clank.

clunk

Noun : A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact.

Noun : (dated) The sound of liquid coming out of a bottle, etc.; a glucking sound.

Verb : To make such a sound.

clong

Noun : (conlanging, humorous) Synonym of conlang

claro

Noun : A cigar whose wrapper is very light tan or yellowish.

Noun : A surname.

clogs

Noun : A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

Noun : A blockage.

Noun : (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.

claus

Noun : A male given name from Ancient Greek.

Noun : Fictitious surname of Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus.

clift

Noun : (obsolete) A cliff.

Noun : A surname.

clubs

Noun : (card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣.

Noun : Alternative form of clumps (“game of asking questions”) [A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions.]

cloze

Noun : (education) A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text.

clary

Noun : clary sage (Salvia sclarea)

clomp

Noun : The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.

Verb : (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs.

Verb : (transitive) To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound.

claws

Noun : A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.

Noun : A foot equipped with such.

Noun : The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.

clart

Noun : A daub.

Noun : (now Scotland, Northern England) Sticky mud, mire or filth.

Noun : (Tyneside, derogatory) A person who is unclean.

clute

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A rural unincorporated community in the town of Cochrane, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada.

Noun : A city in Brazoria County, Texas.

clonk

Noun : The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.

Noun : (fishing) A stick-like tool used to strike the surface of the water and produce a sound that causes nearby fish to attack the bait.

Verb : To make such a sound.

cleve

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) A room; chamber.

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) A cottage.

Noun : (obsolete) A cliff or hillside.

clegg

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Wake County, North Carolina, United States.

Noun : Alternative spelling of cleg [(now dialectal) A light breeze.]

cloom

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To close with glutinous matter.

clams

Noun : informal terms for mone

cloff

Noun : (historical, shipping) An allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

clush

clast

Noun : (geology) a fragment of rock that was broken from a larger rock or rock unit.

clasm

clips

Noun : a public domain software tool for building expert systems.

clues

Noun : (now rare) A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.

Noun : Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.

Noun : An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.

cluff

Noun : A surname.

clwyd

Noun : a preserved county of Wales, situated in the north-east corner of the country; it is named after the River Clwyd, which runs through the area.

clote

Noun : (obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.

Noun : (botany) The yellow waterlily.

cleon

Noun : A male given name from Ancient Greek.

claik

Verb : (Scotland) To honk or cry like a goose.

Noun : (Scotland) The cry of a goose, or other bird.

Noun : (Scotland) Gossip; a gossip.

clune

Noun : A surname.

clept

cluny

Noun : A commune in Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France.

Noun : A parish south of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, the location of Cluny Castle (OS grid ref NJ6812).

Noun : A small village in Fife council area, Scotland, north-west of Kirkcaldy (OS grid ref NT2495).

clape

Noun : A bird, the northern flicker.

clipt

cloot

Noun : a cloven hoo

cloke

Noun : Archaic spelling of cloak. [A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.]

Verb : Archaic spelling of cloak. [(transitive) To cover as with or like a cloak.]

clods

Noun : A lump of something, especially earth or clay.

Noun : The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.

Noun : A stupid person; a dolt.

clans

Noun : (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.

Noun : A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain

Noun : Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.

clays

Noun : A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

Noun : An earth material with ductile qualities.

Noun : (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.

clavi

Noun : (archaeology) A Roman key.

Noun : A device for restraint of the hands.

Noun : A glossary.

closh

Noun : (obsolete) The game of ninepins.

Noun : A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis; founder.

clops

Noun : (onomatopoeia) The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.

Noun : (slang) My Little Pony-themed pornography.

Verb : To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.

clews

Noun : A surname.

clots

Noun : A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.

Noun : A solidified mass of any liquid.

Noun : A silly person.

cloop

clisp

Noun : In computing, CLISP is an implementation of the programming language Common Lisp originally developed by Bruno Haible and Michael Stoll for the Atari ST.

clake

Noun : Alternative form of claik (the barnacle goose) [(Scotland) The cry of a goose, or other bird.]

clype

clich

Adjective : Alternative spelling of clichéd [Repeated so often that it has become stale or commonplace; hackneyed.]

clomb

claps

Noun : The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.

Noun : The explosive sound of thunder.

Noun : Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.

clapt

Noun : The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.

Noun : The explosive sound of thunder.

Noun : Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.

clari

Noun : Claris International Inc., formerly FileMaker Inc., is a computer software development company formed as a subsidiary company of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) in 1987.

Noun : a Japanese pop music duo which formed in 2009 with singers Clara and Alice from Hokkaido, who were in junior high school at the time.

cloys

Verb : (transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.

Verb : (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

Verb : (transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

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