5 Letter Words That Start With CL

close

Verb : (physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.

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

Verb : (transitive) To obstruct or block.

clear

Adjective : Transparent in colour.

Adjective : Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.

Adjective : Free of obstacles.

clasp

Noun : (countable) A device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together, such as a fastener or a holder.

Noun : (countable) A bar or insignia on a medal ribbon, to either indicate an additional award of the medal, or the action or service for which it was awarded.

Noun : (uncountable) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.

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.

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.

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.

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.

clean

Adjective : Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.

Adjective : (of metal) Having relatively few impurities.

Adjective : Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.

clout

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

Noun : 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.

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.

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.

claim

Noun : A demand of ownership made for something.

Noun : The thing claimed.

Noun : The right or ground of demanding.

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.

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.

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 : (ambitransitive) 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.

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 : (British) The act of snapping one's fingers.

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

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.

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.

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.

Noun : (derogatory, offensive) dull; foolish; stupid or silly person.

cline

Noun : (systematics, evolution, biogeography) A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species, deme, or other systematic group.

Noun : Any graduated continuum.

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

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 : (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.

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.

cleve

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

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) A cottage.

Noun : (obsolete) A cliff or hillside.

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.

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.

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.

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 person.

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.

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.

clart

Noun : A daub.

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

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

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.

clift

Noun : (obsolete) A cliff.

Noun : A surname.

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.

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.

clung

Adjective : (obsolete) wasted away; shrunken

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.

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.

clime

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

Noun : Climate.

Noun : (figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.

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 the mid-twentieth century.

Noun : A village in Alberta.

clara

Noun : A female given name from Latin.

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

Noun : A town in County Offaly, Ireland.

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:

clair

Noun : A female given name from French.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A village in New Brunswick, Canada

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.

clase

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.]

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.

cloom

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

cloam

Noun : (obsolete) Clay.

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) Earthenware.

Adjective : (now chiefly dialectal) Made of earthenware.

clams

Noun : informal terms for mone

clast

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

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.]

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.

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.]

clomb

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.

claus

Noun : A male given name from Dutch or from German [in turn from Ancient Greek].

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

Noun : A surname from Dutch or from German [in turn from Ancient Greek].

clong

Noun : (conlanging, humorous) Synonym of conlang

clefs

Noun : (music) A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]

clote

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

Noun : (botany) The yellow waterlily.

clerc

Noun : A surname.

clicc

clann

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

clats

Noun : Synonym of slops (“scraps fed to animals; household wastewater”)

clane

Adjective : Pronunciation spelling of clean. [Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.]

cleep

Verb : Alternative form of clepe [(intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To give a call; cry out; appeal.]

cleit

Noun : (Scotland) A stone storage hut or bothy.

clipp

Noun : The act by which something is clipped (in any sense).

Noun : (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.

Noun : (countable, journalism) An article clipped from a newspaper (especially) or from a magazine.

cloon

cloos

clost

Adjective : Pronunciation spelling of close. [Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.]

clasa

clawy

Adjective : (informal) Of or resembling a claw; clawlike.

cliil

clilc

cliqu

Noun : A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.

Noun : (graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.

Noun : (Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.

clivi

Noun : (music) A neume representing two notes descending.

cloye

Verb : Obsolete form of cloy. [(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.]

clrae

clumb

clary

Noun : clary sage (Salvia sclarea)

clips

Noun : (C Language Integrated Production System) a public-domain software tool for building expert systems.

Noun : (sometimes known as The Official Game of the Planet) a Canadian game show that aired on YTV from 1993 to 1996 and produced by The Robert Essery Organization, as was the case for its sister show, Video & Arcade Top 10, which also aired on YTV at the time.

Noun : a mobile video editing software application created by Apple Inc.

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.

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.

claro

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

Noun : A surname.

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.

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.

claws

Noun : an American comedy-drama television series created by Eliot Laurence that aired on TNT from June 11, 2017, to February 6, 2022.

Noun : a 1977 U.S. horror-thriller film.

Noun : "Claws" (stylized in all lowercase) is a song by English singer-songwriter Charli XCX.

clave

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

Noun : Ellipsis of autoclave. [A strong, pressurized, heated vessel, as for laboratory experiments, sterilization, cooking or mineral processing.]

Verb : Ellipsis of autoclave. [(transitive) To sterilize laboratory equipment in an autoclave.]

cleon

Noun : A male given name from Ancient Greek.

clews

Noun : A surname.

clava

Noun : Synonym of gracile tubercle

Noun : (entomology) The fused distal segments of the antenna of a chalcid wasp.

clogs

Noun : a mostly instrumental project led by Bryce Dessner and Padma Newsome.

clots

Noun : A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.

Noun : A solidified mass of any liquid.

Noun : A silly person.

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).

cloop

Noun : A slightly hollow, percussive sound.

Noun : The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

Noun : The sound made by the movement of liquid into a hollow space.

closh

Noun : (obsolete) The game of ninepins.

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

clans

Noun : a German-style board game designed by Leo Colovini.

Noun : a 1999 action role-playing game developed by ComputerHouse GBG AB.

clino

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