9-Letter Words That Start With: CLIN

• very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.

• (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

• an argument that is conclusive

• a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively

• a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets

• 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

• a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments

• Having a tendency to cling.

• (usually derogatory) Pathetically attached to, or possessive of someone, usually a significant other.

• any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries