5 letter words starting with cla

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got quite a few plausible five letter words starting with cla.

  • 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

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of clamp

clamp (noun)

  1. A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
  2. An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
  3. A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
  4. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
  5. A pile of root vegetables stored under a layer of earth.
  6. A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
  7. An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.

clamp (verb)

  1. To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
  2. To hold or grip tightly.
  3. To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range.
  4. To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.

clamp (noun)

  1. A heavy footstep; a tramp.

clamp (verb)

  1. To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.

Definition of clams

clams (noun)

  1. Acronym of Clip-on Load Adjusting Mechanism. A device that can be fitted onto an oar to adjust set.

clams (noun)

  1. A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
  2. Strong pincers or forceps.
  3. A kind of vise, usually of wood.
  4. A dollar (usually used in the plural).
  5. A Scientologist.
  6. A vagina.
  7. One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.

clams (verb)

  1. To dig for clams.

clams (noun)

  1. A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

clams (verb)

  1. To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

clams (verb)

  1. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
  2. To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

Definition of clank

clank (noun)

  1. A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.

clank (verb)

  1. To make a clanking sound
  2. To cause to sound with a clank.

Definition of class

class (noun)

  1. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
  2. 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.
  3. The division of society into classes.
  4. Admirable behavior; elegance.
  5. A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
  6. A series of lessons covering a single subject.
  7. A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
  8. A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
  9. A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
  10. Best of its kind.
  11. A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
  12. A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
  13. A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
  14. A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
  15. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

class (verb)

  1. To assign to a class; to classify.
  2. To be grouped or classed.
  3. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

class (adjective)

  1. Great; fabulous

Definition of clays

clays (noun)

  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities.
  3. A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
  4. The material of the human body.
  5. A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  6. A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
  7. A clay pigeon.
  8. Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims

clays (verb)

  1. To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
  2. (of sugar) To purify using clay.