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

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

clump

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

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

Verb : (ambitransitive) To form clusters or lumps.

cleft

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

Noun : A piece made by splitting.

Adjective : split, divided, or partially divided into two.

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 : An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.

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 : Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.

Noun : An angry argument.

Noun : A skirmish, a hostile encounter.

cloak

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

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

Verb : (transitive, figurative) To cover up, hide or conceal.

clack

Verb : (intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

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

claim

Verb : To demand ownership of.

Noun : A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.

Noun : A demand of ownership made for something.

clang

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

Verb : (intransitive) To give out a clang; to resound.

Verb : (transitive) To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.

clamp

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

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.

Verb : (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.

clink

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.

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

Noun : (dated, slang) A prison.

click

Noun : (graphical user interface) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.

Verb : (computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).

clepe

Verb : (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To report; relate; tell.

Verb : (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be loquacious; tattle; gossip.

Verb : (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal, often with 'on') To tell lies about; inform against (someone).

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

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

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.

Verb : To make such a sound.

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

cline

Noun : Any graduated continuum.

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

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 : A time clock.

cling

Verb : To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.

Verb : To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.

cleve

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

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) A cottage.

Noun : (obsolete) A cliff or hillside.

cloud

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

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

Noun : (cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

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 or 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 : (horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.

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.

Verb : (intransitive) To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).

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

Verb : (transitive, now Scotland, Northern England) To daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.

Noun : A daub.

clonk

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

Verb : To make such a sound.

Verb : (informal) To wallop, clobber.

clift

Noun : (obsolete) A cliff.

Noun : A surname.

clone

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

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.

cleat

Noun : A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.

Noun : An athletic shoe equipped with cleats.

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

clung

Adjective : (obsolete) Shrunken; wasted away.

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 male given name transferred from the surname, popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.

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

Noun : A village in Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada.

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

Noun : (Scotland) Gossip; a gossip.

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

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

cloom

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

cloam

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) Earthenware.

Adjective : (now chiefly dialectal) Made of earthenware.

Verb : (intransitive, UK dialectal) To gutter (as a candle).

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 : (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus, consisting of a set of two clubs.

Noun : (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with clubs.

clint

Noun : A male given name.

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

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

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

Noun : Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)

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

claus

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

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

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 : The yellow waterlily.

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

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 : (uncountable, linguistics) A process of word formation involving shortening by removal of syllables, often terminal ones.

Noun : (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a longer word) created by removing syllables, often terminal ones.

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.

Verb : (intransitive) To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.

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

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 unisex given name.

Noun : A female given name from Latin, more often spelled Claire from the 20th century onward.

Noun : A county of Ireland.

clyde

Noun : (with the) 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 : (chiefly US) A male given name transferred from the place name (the River Clyde in Scotland).

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

claro

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

Noun : A surname.

cleek

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.

Noun : (chiefly Scotland) A large hook.

claps

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

Verb : (transitive) To applaud.

Verb : (intransitive) To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp 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 : (entomology) The fused distal segments of the antenna of a chalcid wasp.

Noun : Synonym of gracile tubercle.

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.

Verb : (intransitive) To form a clot or mass.

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

Noun : A slightly hollow, percussive sound.

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

closh

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

Noun : (obsolete) The game of ninepins.

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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