5 letter words starting with cl

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  • CLACH
  • CLACK
  • CLADE
  • CLADS
  • CLAES
  • CLAGS
  • CLAIM
  • CLAIR
  • CLAME
  • CLAMP
  • CLAMS
  • CLANG
  • CLANK
  • CLANS
  • CLAPS
  • CLAPT
  • CLARO
  • CLART
  • CLARY
  • CLASH
  • CLASP
  • CLASS
  • CLAST
  • CLATS
  • CLAUT
  • CLAVE
  • CLAVI
  • CLAWS
  • CLAYS
  • CLEAN
  • CLEAR
  • CLEAT
  • CLECK
  • CLEEK
  • CLEEP
  • CLEFS
  • CLEFT
  • CLEGS
  • CLEIK
  • CLEMS
  • CLEPE
  • CLEPT
  • CLERK
  • CLEVE
  • CLEWS
  • CLICK
  • CLIED
  • CLIES
  • CLIFF
  • CLIFT
  • CLIMB
  • CLIME
  • CLINE
  • CLING
  • CLINK
  • CLINT
  • CLIPE
  • CLIPS
  • CLIPT
  • CLITS
  • CLOAK
  • CLOAM
  • CLOCK
  • CLODS
  • CLOFF
  • CLOGS
  • CLOKE
  • CLOMB
  • CLOMP
  • CLONE
  • CLONK
  • CLONS
  • CLOOP
  • CLOOT
  • CLOPS
  • CLOSE
  • CLOTE
  • CLOTH
  • CLOTS
  • CLOUD
  • CLOUR
  • CLOUS
  • CLOUT
  • CLOVE
  • CLOWN
  • CLOWS
  • CLOYE
  • CLOYS
  • CLOZE
  • CLUBS
  • CLUCK
  • CLUED
  • CLUES
  • CLUEY
  • CLUMP
  • CLUNG
  • CLUNK
  • CLYPE

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Definition of clade

clade (noun)

  1. A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
  2. A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.

clade (verb)

  1. To be part of a clade; to form a clade.

Definition of clave

clave (verb)

  1. To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
  2. To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
  3. To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
  4. To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
  5. To split.
  6. Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.

clave (verb)

  1. To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.

clave (noun)

  1. A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.

clave (noun)

  1. Singular of claves

Definition of clews

clews (noun)

  1. A roughly spherical mass or body.
  2. A ball of thread or yarn.
  3. Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
  4. The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
  5. (in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
  6. (in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.

clews (noun)

  1. A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.
  2. Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
  3. An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
  4. Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)

Definition of clips

clips (noun)

  1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
  2. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
  3. An embrace.
  4. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
  5. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
  6. A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

clips (verb)

  1. To grip tightly.
  2. To fasten with a clip.
  3. To hug, embrace.
  4. To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

clips (noun)

  1. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
  2. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
  3. The condition of something, its state.
  4. A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)

clips (verb)

  1. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
  2. To curtail; to cut short.
  3. To strike with the hand.
  4. To hit or strike, especially in passing.
  5. An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
  6. To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
  7. To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
  8. (Of a camera, character model, etc.) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
  9. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
  10. To grab or take stealthily

Definition of clout

clout (noun)

  1. Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
  2. A blow with the hand.
  3. A home run.
  4. The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
  5. A swaddling cloth.
  6. A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
  7. An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
  8. A piece; a fragment.

clout (verb)

  1. To hit, especially with the fist.
  2. To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
  3. To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
  4. To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
  5. To join or patch clumsily.

clout (verb)

  1. To form a clot or mass.
  2. To cause to clot or form into a mass.