9-letter words containing a, c, o, e
- isooctane — the octane C 8 H 18 , used as one of the standards in establishing the octane number of a fuel.
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- jack rose — a cocktail made with apple brandy, lime or lemon juice, and grenadine.
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.
- jane cowl — Jane, 1884–1950, U.S. actress and playwright.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- jonnycake — Alternative spelling of johnnycake.
- jouisance — joy; delight
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- keratotic — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
- la crosse — a city in W Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River.
- lace into — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- lanceolar — (botany) lanceolate.
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- laodicean — lukewarm or indifferent, especially in religion, as were the early Christians of Laodicea.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- latecomer — a person who arrives late: The latecomers were seated after the overture.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- lectorate — a lecturer in a college or university.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- lidocaine — a synthetic crystalline powder, C 14 H 22 N 2 O, used as a local anesthetic and also in the management of certain arrhythmias.
- lilaceous — of or approaching the color lilac.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- loadspace — the area in a motor vehicle where a load can be carried
- localised — localisation
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- localizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of localize.
- locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- locatelli — Pietro [pee-ey-troh;; Italian pye-traw] /piˈeɪ troʊ;; Italian ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1695–1764, Italian violinist and composer.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- locellate — split into secondary cells
- lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
- lock seam — a joint between two pieces of sheet metal, made by folding up the overlapping edges against each other, then folding them over in the same direction a number of times.
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- loculated — Locular.
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- long face — an unhappy or gloomy expression: He's been walking around with a long face ever since he failed the examination.
- lose face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- 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.
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- macedoine — a mixture of fruits or vegetables, often served as a salad.
- macedonia — Also, Macedon [mas-i-don] /ˈmæs ɪˌdɒn/ (Show IPA). an ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in S Europe: now a region in N Greece, SW Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia.
- macerator — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.