9-letter words containing a, e, r, i, l, m
- greenmail — the practice of buying a large block of a company's stock in order to force a rise in stock prices or an offer by the company to repurchase that block of stock at an inflated price to thwart a possible takeover bid.
- harlemite — a native or inhabitant of Harlem.
- harmaline — a chemical derived from the harmala plant, used as a hallucinogen or used in conjunction with other hallucinogens
- heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- hillerman — Tony, 1925–2008, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
- ilmarinen — one of the heroes of the Kalevala.
- imagerial — the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- impearled — Simple past tense and past participle of impearl.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- impleader — a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- intermale — occurring between males
- lamartine — Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de [al-fawns ma-ree lwee duh pra duh] /alˈfɔ̃s maˈri lwi də pra də/ (Show IPA), 1790–1869, French poet, historian, and statesman.
- lamebrain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- latimeria — any coelacanth fish of the genus Latimeria
- lattimore — Richmond Alexander, 1906–84, U.S. poet, translator, and critic, born in China.
- lemuralia — the annual festival in ancient Rome in which the lemures were exorcised from houses.
- lexigrams — Plural form of lexigram.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- limewater — an aqueous solution of slaked lime, used in medicine, antacids, and lotions, and to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
- line mark — a trademark covering all items of a particular product line.
- literatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- madrilene — a consommé flavored with tomato, frequently jelled and served cold.
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
- mainliner — Slang. a person who mainlines.
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
- malingery — The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- marbleize — marble.
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marialite — a member of the scapolite group, rich in sodium and containing no calcium.
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- marmalize — to beat soundly or defeat utterly; thrash
- marseille — a seaport in and the capital of Bouches-du-Rhône department, in SE France.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- marveling — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- maryville — a city in E Tennessee.
- materials — the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
- materiels — Plural form of materiel.
- megaliter — Alternative spelling of megalitre One million liters.