English words: clean as a bean to cleidomastoideus

300 English words, part 94 of 202 of the words starting with C, A to Z. 38 have a page of their own.

English words clean as a bean to cleidomastoideus

clean as a bean adjective: Very clean.
clean as a hound's tooth adjective: Very clean.
clean as a new penny adjective: Extremely clean.
clean as a new pin adjective: Very clean.
clean as a whistle adjective: Very clean.
clean bill of health noun: A bill of health that states that there is no infectious disease present in a ship, or its port of departure.
clean bomb noun: An atomic bomb which leaves little to no radioactive contamination.
clean bowl verb: To bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.
clean break noun: The complete termination of a relationship, or an exit from a situation.
clean bulk noun: A bulk where one tries to gain strength and muscle while putting on as little body fat as possible.
clean chit noun: A (usually oral) exoneration given by law enforcement agencies to suspects in a crime, likely to be flawed.
clean coal noun: Any technology that may mitigate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses that arise from the burning of coal for electrical power.
clean code noun: Non-redundant software code comprising of focused task-specific modules and functions, written in a systematic manner so that another coder can easily...
clean coder noun: A programmer who writes generally clean code.
clean copy noun: A copy of a draft of a document without editing notations.
clean-cut adjective: Having a neat, smart appearance
clean down verb: To clean (something) thoroughly.
clean eating noun: The practice of eating whole foods in their most natural state and avoiding processed foods such as refined sugar to obtain supposed health benefits.
clean electricity noun: Synonym of clean power.
clean fashion noun: Environmentally friendly produced clothing, avoiding “forever chemicals”, synthetic dyes, etc.
clean feed noun: A video signal without added graphics or text.
clean fetish noun: Any non-partialist fetish that does not involve any bodily fluids or waste, smells, messy things, or anything generally considered unclean.
clean fill noun: soil for changing elevation
clean float noun: Synonym of free float (“type of floating exchange rate”).
clean freak noun: Synonym of neat freak.
clean girl noun: A notional girl representing a fashion style characterized by minimalist clothing, neutral colors, tied-back hair, and subtle makeup that emphasizes...
clean-handed adjective: Innocent and candid; free from corruption.
clean-handedly adverb: In a clean-handed manner; honestly and forthrightly.
clean-handedness noun: The quality of being clean-handed; honesty and freedom from wrong-doing.
clean hands noun: Freedom from guilt, especially from the guilt of dishonesty in money matters, or of bribe-taking.
clean house verb: To clean the interior of a house.
clean label adjective, noun: A label on food that indicates a product is made with minimal, recognizable, and natural ingredients, avoiding artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives.
clean language noun: A questioning technique focused on the use of language, assumptions, metaphors, paradigms and sensations familiar to the person questioned.
clean-limbed adjective /ˌkliːnˈlɪmd/: Having a slender, athletic body; lithe.
clean link noun: Synonym of clean URL.
clean-living adjective: Not engaging in acts of moral depravity, such as drinking, smoking or carousing.
clean meat noun: Synonym of cultured meat.
clean money noun: Money that is legally or honestly gained or earned.
clean off verb: To remove (something) by cleaning; to thoroughly clean (something) or make (something) bare.
clean one's plate verb: To finish all of the food served to one, without leaving leftovers.
clean out verb: To clean, especially to tidy by removing the contents.
clean potato noun: Something that is excellent.
clean power noun: Electric power that is free from voltage spikes and drops, or any other abnormalities.
clean price noun: The price of a bond excluding any interest accrued since the bond's issuance and the most recent coupon payment.
clean room noun: Alternative form of cleanroom.
clean-shaved adjective: Alternative form of clean-shaven.
clean shaven adjective: Having had hair (especially facial hair) shaved off, so that it is no longer visible.
clean sheet noun: An absence of debts or indictments.
clean shell noun: A legal entity that demonstrably has no liabilities.
clean skin noun: Alternative spelling of cleanskin.
clean slate noun: A fresh start.
clean someone's clock verb: To defeat someone decisively, in a physical fight or other competition or negotiation.
clean sweep noun: A complete or overwhelming victory, especially one in which all or almost all possible electoral contests are won.
clean teen noun: An adolescent who abstains from the use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and other harmful substances.
clean-timbered adjective: Well-proportioned; symmetrical.
clean up noun, verb: To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
clean up after verb: To clean areas and things that (somebody) has touched or dirtied.
clean up one's act verb: To reform; to improve one's habits.
clean up one's plate verb: To eat all the food on one's plate.
clean URL noun: A web address or URL intended to improve the usability and accessibility of a website, web application, or Web service by being immediately and intuitively...
cleanability noun: The state of being cleanable.
cleanable adjective: That can be cleaned
cleanaholic noun: A very clean and tidy person; one who has high standards of cleanliness for the home, etc.
cleaned adjective, verb /kliːnd/: Having been made clean.
cleaner adjective, noun /ˈkliː.nə/: A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
cleaner fish noun: Any of many fish (in many taxa) that provide a service to other fish species by removing dead skin and parasites.
cleaner shrimp noun: Any of a number of swimming decapod crustaceans that clean other organisms of parasites.
cleaner-up noun: One who cleans up.
cleaner-upper noun: A person responsible for cleaning or tidying up.
cleaner-upperer noun: A cleaner-upper; a person responsible for cleaning or tidying up.
cleaneress noun: A female cleaner.
cleanerfish noun: Alternative form of cleaner fish.
cleaners noun: A professional laundry or dry cleaner.
cleanfill noun: Alternative spelling of clean fill.
cleanfluencer noun /ˈklinflu.ənsə(ɹ)/: An influencer who gives advice on housekeeping and cleaning products.
cleanhanded adjective: Alternative spelling of clean-handed.
cleanhandedly adverb: Alternative form of clean-handedly.
cleanhandedness noun: Alternative form of clean-handedness.
cleanin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of cleaning.
cleaning noun, verb /ˈkliːnɪŋ/: The process of making something clean; a freeing from filth or dirt.
cleaning agent noun: A substance used to remove dirt, including dust, stains, foul odors, and clutter on surfaces.
cleaning fluid noun: A liquid cleaning agent.
cleaning lady noun: A woman who cleans the interiors of houses or other buildings, normally as paid employment.
cleaning rod noun: A firearm maintenance tool used to clean the inside (bore) of a gun's barrel.
cleaning shoe noun: The part of a harvester or combine which both sieves out large impurities such as rocks and blows out light impurities such as chaff.
cleaning sieve noun: The lower sieve in a combine harvester's cleaning shoe assembly, designed for the final separation of clean grain from finer debris.
cleaning woman noun: Synonym of cleaning lady.
cleaningware noun: Cleaning items.
cleanish adjective: Somewhat clean (all senses).
cleanlily adverb: in a cleanly manner
cleanliness noun /ˈklɛn.li.nᵻs/: The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.
cleanliness is next to godliness proverb: It is important and morally sound to keep one's body and home clean; those who practice purity and wholeness are close to God.
cleanly adjective, adverb /ˈklɛnli/: Being habitually clean, practising good hygiene.
cleanness noun /ˈkliːn.nəs/: Moral purity; innocence.
cleanout noun: An opening or drain leading into a plumbing system to provide a location to insert a snake or other implement for cleaning.
cleanroom noun, verb: A room or environment that is controlled in such a way as to minimize airborne particulate matter, typically for the purpose of fabricating sensitive...
cleansability noun: The quality of being cleansable.
cleansable adjective: able to be cleansed
cleanse noun, verb /klɛnz/: To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
cleanser noun: Someone or something that cleanses, such as a detergent.
cleanshaven adjective: Alternative spelling of clean-shaven.
cleansheet noun: Alternative form of clean sheet.
cleansing adjective, noun, verb /ˈklɛn.zɪŋ/: That cleanses.
cleansingly adverb: So as to cleanse.
cleanskin noun /ˈkliːnskɪn/: An unbranded animal.
cleantech noun /ˈkliː.ntɛk/: Technologies that support increased productivity or profitability while also reducing resource consumption or pollution.
cleanth noun /ˈklɛnθ/: The condition or state of being clean; cleanliness
Cleanthean adjective: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Cleanthes or his philosophy.
Cleanthes proper noun: A male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.
cleanup noun /ˈkliːnʌp/: The act of cleaning or tidying something.
cleanup hitter noun: the fourth batter in the batting order, usually a power hitter
cleanup in aisle phrase: Alternative form of cleanup on aisle.
cleanup man noun: A male cleanup hitter.
cleanup on aisle phrase: Indicates that a mess needs to be cleaned up, or that a messy situation needs to be resolved. (followed by an arbitrary number)
clear adjective, adverb, noun, verb /ˈklɪə/: Transparent in colour.
clear-air turbulence noun: The erratic movement of air masses in the absence of any visual cues, especially such movement that causes unexpected turbulence to an aircraft.
clear and convincing evidence noun: A legal standard for deciding the outcome of a dispute: evidence that clearly indicates that a claim is more likely to be true than not, without needing to...
clear as a bell adjective: Totally clear; distinct and unmistakeable.
clear as a mirror adjective: Totally clear; visibly distinct.
clear as crystal adjective: Entirely transparent.
clear as day adjective: Quite clear.
clear as mud adjective: Unclear; difficult or impossible to understand or interpret.
clear as print adjective: Synonym of plain as print (“very clear or obvious”).
clear as the sun at noonday adjective: Synonym of crystal clear
clear away verb: To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat.
clear blue water noun: An obvious, unambiguous divide between the policies of two parties.
clear-channel adjective: Of or relating to those AM radio stations having the highest level of protection from interference from other stations, particularly from nighttime skywave...
clear cut adjective, verb: Straightforward, obvious, simple, or basic.
clear-cutness noun: The state of being clear cut
clear cutting noun, verb: Alternative form of clearcutting.
clear-eyed adjective: Having clear, sharp sight.
clear-felling noun: Alternative form of clearfelling.
clear game noun: A successful finish or completion of a game, level, or specific task.
clear-headed adjective: Alternative spelling of clearheaded.
clear-headedness noun: the state of being clear-headed
clear ice noun: Ice that is clear, that is, free from visible imperfections.
Clear Lake gnat noun: Chaoborus astictopus, a kind of phantom midge.
clear-obscure noun: A chiaroscuro.
clear off verb: To leave abruptly; scram.
clear one's lines verb: To clear the ball away from a dangerous position.
clear one's throat verb: To forcibly, sometimes mutedly, expel air from one's lungs, sometimes to clear mucus, sometimes to attract attention to something; less vigorously than to...
clear out noun, verb: To completely empty.
clear quartz noun: Synonym of rock crystal.
clear round noun: The completion of a show jumping course without knocking down any of the obstacles.
clear sailing noun: A situation where one can proceed with no serious problems.
clear-sighted adjective: Having sharp vision.
clear-sightedness noun: The property of being clear-sighted
clear someone's name verb: To prove the innocence of a person previously considered or suspected to be guilty.
clear stuff noun: timber i.e.boards, planks, etc., that is smooth and free of knots or other irregularities.
clear-swept adjective: Perfectly clear; free of any extraneous matter.
clear the air verb: To assuage a hostile or uncomfortable situation.
clear the decks verb: To remove, or fasten, all loose material, or partitions prior to a naval engagement.
clear the ground verb: Synonym of prepare the ground
clear the market verb: To equate the supply of traded goods with the demand, so that there is no excess.
clear the neighborhood verb: To become gravitationally dominant, such that there are no other bodies of comparable size within its orbit, other than its natural satellites or those...
clear the table verb: To remove plates, etc. from a table after a meal.
clear the way verb: Synonym of prepare the ground
clear title noun: Full ownership of something, usually land, that is free of any encumbrances.
clear up noun, verb /klɪəˈɹʌp/: To clarify, to correct a misconception.
clear view screen noun: A circular disc of plate glass, set into the screen of a ship's bridge and spun at high speed by an electric motor in heavy rain or snow; it offers a clear...
clear-winged adjective: Having transparent wings, or wing with transparent patches.
clearable adjective: able to be cleared
clearage noun: The act of clearing or removing; clearance
clearance noun /ˈklɪə̯.ɹəns/: The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.
clearance hole noun: A hole through an object which is large enough to enable threads of a screw or bolt to pass through but not the head of the screw or bolt. Standards for...
clearance rate noun: The proportion of crimes that are solved by the police with respect to the total number of crimes reported.
clearance sale noun: A sale to quickly reduce inventory; a fire sale.
clearance space noun: In a steam engine, the space enclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke, including the space caused...
clearance time noun: The amount of time required for a payment to be deposited to an account.
Clearbrook proper noun: A small village in Buckland Monachorum parish, West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5265).
clearcoat noun, verb: A (usually glossy and durable) transparent coat sprayed over the pigmented coats of a paint job or similar coating.
clearcole noun, verb: A primer (for paint) containing white lead.
clearcreekite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic pale greenish yellow mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, mercury, and oxygen.
clearcut adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of clear cut.
clearcutness noun: The state of being clearcut
clearcutter noun: One who engages in clearcutting.
clearcutting noun: A forestry practice in which most or all trees in a harvest area are cut down.
cleardown noun: The termination of a call.
clearedness noun: The quality of being cleared.
clearer adjective, noun /ˈklɪəɹə/: Someone who or something which clears.
cleareyed adjective: Alternative form of clear-eyed.
clearfelling noun: Synonym of clearcutting.
Clearfield proper noun: A locality in the Richmond Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
clearheaded adjective: Having the ability to think clearly and act appropriately
clearheadedly adverb: In a clearheaded manner.
clearheadedness noun: The quality of being clearheaded.
clearie noun: Alternative form of cleary.
clearin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of clearing.
clearing noun, verb /ˈklɪɹɪŋ/: The act or process of making or becoming clear.
clearing agent noun: A material used to remove silver halide crystals from film between developing and fixing, or to remove other material from various surfaces
clearing bank noun: Any of a network of banks that have a formal arrangement for the exchange of cheques, drafts, etc.
clearing house noun: A central point where clearing banks and other financial firms exchange checks, settle accounts, etc.
clearing nut noun: The seed of the tree Strychnos potatorum, traditionally used for purifying muddy water.
clearing saw noun: Synonym of brushcutter.
clearing station noun: A temporary field hospital to treat and classify the sick and wounded.
clearinghouse noun: Alternative form of clearing house.
clearish adjective: Somewhat clear.
Clearlake proper noun: A city in Lake County, California, United States.
clearly adverb /ˈklɪɚli/: In a clear manner.
clearness noun: Brightness, brilliancy.
clearness committee noun: Among Quakers, a group of people who meet to seek clarity on how somebody should respond to a concern or dilemma.
clearnet adjective, noun: The Internet as indexed by search engines, as opposed to the Tor network; the searchable Internet.
clearo noun: Clipping of clearomizer.
clearomizer noun: The reservoir and atomizer of an e-cigarette.
clearout noun: Alternative form of clear-out.
clears noun, verb: A relatively strong, coarse flour that has only been sifted once.
clearsach noun: Alternative form of clarsach.
clearsighted adjective: Alternative spelling of clear-sighted.
clearsightedly adverb: In a clearsighted manner, with awareness or good vision.
clearsightedness noun: Alternative spelling of clear-sightedness.
clearskin noun: Synonym of cleanskin (“unbranded animal”).
clearsome adjective, adverb: Characterised or marked by clarity or clearness; clear, bright.
clearspan noun: A span between e.g. roof timbers that is clear of obstructions.
clearstarch verb: To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands.
clearstarcher noun: One who clearstarches.
clearstoried adjective: Alternative form of clerestoried.
clearstory noun: Alternative form of clerestory.
cleartext noun: The unencrypted form of an encrypted text; plain text
clearwater adjective: Having relatively clear water, free of large quantities of mud or tannin.
clearway noun: A road or other path that is kept free of obstructions, or on which stopping is strictly regulated, in order to maintain free flow of movement.
clearweed noun: A herb with a clear stem; the richweed.
clearwing noun: Any of various moths, of the family Sesiidae, that have transparent wings
cleary noun: A clear marble (sphere used in games), usually colored, but without decoration or design.
cleat noun, verb /kliːt/: A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
Cleator proper noun: A village in Cleator Moor parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland district (OS grid ref NY0113).
cleats noun, verb /kliːts/: A pair of athletic shoes equipped with cleats.
cleavability noun: Quality or degree of being cleavable.
cleavable adjective: Capable of being cleaved.
cleavage noun /ˈkliːvɪd͡ʒ/: The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.
cleavage furrow noun: The invagination of the cell membrane, at the equatorial plane of the cell, that characterizes the onset of cytokinesis in animal cells.
cleavage tape noun: Synonym of lingerie tape.
cleavaged adjective: Having (a particular kind of) cleavage.
cleavase noun: A form of endonuclease that cleaves at the junctions between single- and double-stranded DNA
cleave noun, verb /ˈkliːv/: To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
cleave gag noun: A gag consisting of material that is pulled between a person's teeth instead of being tied over the mouth.
cleaved adjective, verb /kliːvd/: Cleft or cloven.
Cleaveland proper noun: Alternative form of Cleveland.
cleavelandite noun: A white lamellar variety of albite.
cleaver noun /ˈklivɚ/: A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.
cleavers noun: Galium aparine, a herbaceous annual bedstraw of the family Rubiaceae.
cleaverwort noun: Synonym of cleavers (“the bedstraw”).
cleaving adjective, noun, verb: That cleaves.
cleavingly adverb: In a cleaving manner
clebopride noun: A dopamine antagonist drug with antiemetic and prokinetic properties, used to treat functional gastrointestinal disorders.
Clebsch-Gordan coefficient noun: Any of a class of numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics. They appear as the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum...
Cleburne proper noun: A surname.
CLEC noun: Initialism of competitive local exchange carrier.
cleché adjective: Alternative form of cleché.
clechée adjective: Alternative form of cleché.
clechy adjective: Alternative form of cleché.
cleck verb: To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).
Cleckheaton proper noun /klɛkˈ(h)iːtən/: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD1825).
clecking noun, verb: A brood.
Cleckley proper noun: A surname.
Cleckleyan adjective: Of or relating to Hervey M. Cleckley (1903–1984), American psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy.
Cleddau proper noun: A river in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with two branches, Eastern Cleddau and Western Cleddau; the combined river flows into Milford Haven.
cledge noun /klɛd͡ʒ/: The upper layer of fuller's earth.
cledgy adjective /ˈklɛ.d͡ʒi/: stiff, stubborn, clayey, tenacious
cledonism noun: Divination through the interpretation of words (written or spoken) encountered by chance.
cledonomancy noun: Divination through interpreting chance remarks or events.
cledonomantic adjective: Of or pertaining to cledonomancy.
cleek noun, verb /kliːk/: A large hook.
cleeker noun: One who fishes with a cleek, or large hook.
cleep verb: Alternative form of clepe.
Cleese proper noun: A surname.
Cleese's woolly lemur noun: Avahi cleesei, a lemur from Madagascar.
Cleesian adjective: Relating to, or characteristic of, the English comedian John Cleese (born 1939).
Cleethorpes proper noun: A seaside town in North East Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA3008).
cleeve noun: A large wickerwork basket for carrying produce or turf.
clef noun /klɛf/: A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff
clefamide noun: An antiprotozoal agent.
cleffer noun: songwriter
cleflike adjective: Resembling a musical clef.
cleft adjective, noun, verb /ˈklɛft/: An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
cleft chin noun: The presence of a genetic trait in which a fissure in the lower jaw causes a visible dimple in the center of the chin.
cleft grafting noun: a method of grafting in which the scion is placed in a cleft or slit in the stock or stump made by sawing off a branch, usually in such a manner that its...
cleft habitus noun: A sense of dislocation experienced when one's life conditions change drastically, for example through social mobility.
cleft lip noun /ˌkleft ˈlɪp/: harelip
cleft of Venus noun: Synonym of pudendal cleft.
cleft palate noun: An abnormal condition in which the two plates of the skull that form the hard palate (roof of the mouth) are not completely joined.
cleft sentence noun: A complex sentence expressible by a simple one, having a dependent clause in front of the main clause and, typically, stressing a particular constituent.
cleft stick noun: A stick with a split at one end, once used by runners to carry written messages
clefted adjective, verb: Having a cleft; cloven.
cleftgraft noun, verb: To engraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
clefting noun, verb: The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
cleftkarren noun: Synonym of kluftkarren.
cleftstone noun: A flagstone or similar stone that has been cleft from a larger one
cleg noun /klɛɡ/: a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid
clegg noun: Alternative spelling of cleg.
Cleggmania noun: Enthusiasm for British Liberal Democrat politician Nick Clegg.
Cleghorn proper noun: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
cleid- prefix /klʌɪ.d/: Of or pertaining to the clavicle.
cleidal adjective: Relating to the clavicle.
cleido- prefix /klʌɪ.də(ʊ)/: Of or pertaining to the clavicle.
cleidocostal adjective: Relating to the clavicle and the ribs
cleidocranial adjective: Relating to, or connecting, the clavicle and the cranium.
cleidoic adjective /klaɪˈdoʊ.ɪk/: Enclosed in a protective shell that limits the interchange of fluids.
cleidomancy noun: Divination by using a hanging key as a pendulum. A form of radiesthesia.
cleidomastoid adjective: Relating to the clavicle and the mastoid process
cleidomastoideus noun: A muscle connecting the clavicle and the mastoid process.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under C: 60,525 words, in 202 parts.