8-Letter Words Containing: C,E,I,L,N,S

• a reflex response to sudden pain

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily

• a small slip noose made with seizing

• the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet

• a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together

• a tight or amorous embrace

• secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts

• hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches

• hold in a tight grasp

• embrace amorously

• flatten the ends (of nails and rivets)

• settle conclusively

• a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

• make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic

• become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

• genus of Asiatic erect or sprawling herbs: soya bean

• the simplest amino acid found in proteins and the principal amino acid in sugar cane

• a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire

• a hard brick used as a paving stone

• clear out the cinders and clinker from

• turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning

• having a receding chin

• the state of being salient

• change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language

• vary the pitch of one's speech