9-letter words containing a, l, e, n, c
- englacial — Situated, occurring, or formed inside a glacier.
- enranckle — to upset, make irate
- enucleate — Remove the nucleus from (a cell).
- esclandre — (archaic) Infamy.
- euclidean — (rare) alternative spelling of Euclidean.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- evangelic — Evangelical.
- exultance — Exultation.
- exultancy — Exultance, exultation.
- face-nail — to secure with nails driven perpendicular to the surface. Compare toenail (def 4).
- faceplant — (informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident or error.
- falconers — Plural form of falconer.
- falconets — Plural form of falconet.
- falconine — any of several birds of prey of the family Falconidae, especially of the genus Falco, usually distinguished by long, pointed wings, a hooked beak with a toothlike notch on each side of the upper bill, and swift, agile flight, typically diving to seize prey: some falcon species are close to extinction.
- fanciable — Sexually attractive.
- fanciless — Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.
- flagrance — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flamencos — Plural form of flamenco.
- floricane — a plant stem that grows for a year before bearing fruit and flowers, as in the bramble or raspberry.
- freelance — Also, freelancer. a person who works as a writer, designer, performer, or the like, selling work or services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
- frenzical — (obsolete) frantic.
- galenical — an herb or other vegetable drug, distinguished from a mineral or chemical drug.
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- generical — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- genetical — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- genically — by a genic process
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- genitalic — Relating to the genitals.
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- half cent — a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent, issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857.
- halfpence — Plural form of halfpenny.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- ice plant — a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, native to the Mediterranean region, having fleshy leaves that are covered with glistening vesicles and are sometimes eaten as greens.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- icelandic — of or relating to Iceland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- identical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- immanacle — to tie with fetters
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- inbalance — Alternative spelling of imbalance.
- incapable — not capable.
- incitable — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- inclimate — Misspelling of inclement.
- inculcate — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.