9-letter words containing a, c, e, l, r
- lace-fern — a small, tufted fern, Cheilanthes gracillima, having dark-brown stalks and fronds about 4 inches (10.2 cm) long.
- lacemaker — A person who makes lace.
- lacerated — lacerated.
- lacerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lacerate.
- lacertian — of or relating to lizards, or like a lizard
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacertine — belonging or relating to a lacertid
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lacquerer — One who lacquers.
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
- lanceolar — (botany) lanceolate.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
- larvacean — Any of various solitary, free-swimming tunicates of the class Larvacea.
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- latecomer — a person who arrives late: The latecomers were seated after the overture.
- lateritic — a reddish ferruginous soil formed in tropical regions by the decomposition of the underlying rocks.
- laticifer — a tubular structure through which latex circulates in a plant.
- latreutic — of or relating to latria.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- leaf scar — the mark left on a stem or twig after a leaf falls.
- lectorate — a lecturer in a college or university.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- life-care — designed to provide for the basic needs of elderly residents, usually in return for an initial fee and monthly service payments: a life-care facility; life-care communities.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- mackellar — Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote My Country, Australia's best known poem
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- marcelled — Simple past tense and past participle of marcel.