4-Letter Words Containing: _,_,C,L

• a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

• a strand or cluster of hair

• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

• fasten with a lock

• keep engaged

• become rigid or immoveable

• hold in a locking position

• become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• hold fast (in a certain state)

• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

• pass by means through a lock in a waterway

• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

• the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

• be without

• To be insufficiently prepared

• a salt deposit that animals regularly lick

• touching with the tongue

• (boxing) a blow with the fist

• beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

• pass the tongue over

• find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of

• take up with the tongue

• a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping

• provide with calks

• seal with caulking

• injure with a calk

• United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1898-1978)

• a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

• United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)

• water soaked soil; soft wet earth

• the dead body of a human being

• sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles

• a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

• a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

• a bird's foot

• move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging

• clutch as if in panic

• scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails

• attack as if with claws

• young of domestic cattle

• the muscular back part of the shank

• fine leather from the skin of a calf

• young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo