Words Containing: C,L,Y,S

• (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green

• collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils

• a short mantle or cape fastened at the shoulder; worn by men in ancient Greece

• (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph

• A series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

• minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms

• (Greek mythology) one of a group of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead

• with superficial plausibility

• in a relaxed manner; not rigid

• a male servant (especially a footman)

• a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage