9-letter words containing a, k, e, r, l
- flankered — Simple past tense and past participle of flanker.
- flareback — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- frankable — (AU,finance) Eligible for franking, a system of tax credit.
- frikkadel — A traditional Afrikaner dish of baked (or sometimes deep-fried) meatballs prepared with onion, bread, eggs, vinegar, and spices.
- gaolbreak — Alternative form of jailbreak.
- garfunkel — Arthur ("Art") born 1942, U.S. singer.
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- gluemaker — A manufacturer of glue.
- grapelike — Resembling a grape or some aspect of grapes.
- grasslike — That has the characteristics of grass.
- gravelike — resembling a grave
- grid leak — a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- jailbreak — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
- karlfeldt — Erik Axel [ey-rik ahk-suh l] /ˈeɪ rɪk ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1864–1931, Swedish poet: Nobel Prize posthumously 1931.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- keel-rake — Nautical. to haul (an offender) under the bottom of a ship and up on the other side as a punishment.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- key largo — one of the islands in the Florida Keys. 30 miles (48 km) long; 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
- killarney — a town in the SW Republic of Ireland.
- king lear — a tragedy (1606) by Shakespeare.
- kirikkale — city in central Turkey: pop. 233,000
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- kraepelin — Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1926, German psychiatrist.
- lacemaker — A person who makes lace.
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- lake erie — Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- lake eyre — a shallow salt lake or salt flat in NE central South Australia, about 11 m (35 ft) below sea level, divided into two areas (North and South); it usually contains little or no water. Maximum area: 9600 sq km (3700 sq miles)
- lake-eyre — Lake, a shallow salt lake in S South Australia. 3430 sq. mi. (8885 sq. km).
- lakefront — the land along the edge of a lake: Property along the lakefront is more expensive every year.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lankester — Sir Edwin Ray, 1847–1929, English zoologist and writer.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- larkiness — the quality or characteristic of being larky
- larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
- leg break — a ball deviating to the off side from the leg side when bowled.
- leg-break — a ball deviating to the off side from the leg side when bowled.
- line mark — a trademark covering all items of a particular product line.
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- lossmaker — a business that consistently operates at a loss.