9-letter words containing a, l, i, t, o
- long tail — the segment of a market representing the large number of products that sell in small quantities, considered by some to be of greater financial value than the few products that sell in very large quantities
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- lothair i — a.d. 795?–855, king of Germany 840–843; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 840–855 (son of Louis I).
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- low latin — any form of nonclassical Latin, as Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, or Medieval Latin.
- loyalists — Plural form of loyalist.
- loyalties — Plural form of loyalty.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- lunations — Plural form of lunation.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- mail slot — a slot, usually covered with a hinged flap, through which letters, etc are delivered to a building
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- malacotic — softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malathion — an organic phosphate insecticide, C 10 H 19 O 6 S 2 P, of relatively low toxicity for mammals.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- mastoidal — Mastoid.
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melatonin — a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in inverse proportion to the amount of light received by the retina, important in the regulation of biorhythms: in amphibians, it causes a lightening of the skin.
- meliorate — (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- metalloid — a nonmetal that in combination with a metal forms an alloy.
- metalogic — the logical analysis of the fundamental concepts of logic.
- milktoast — milquetoast.
- millocrat — a member of a government or ruling class of mill owners
- miltonian — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- mislocate — to misplace.
- mocktails — Plural form of mocktail.
- moldavite — a green tektite found in Bohemia.
- montclair — a city in NE New Jersey.
- moralists — Plural form of moralist.
- mortalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of mortalize.
- mortality — the state or condition of being subject to death; mortal character, nature, or existence.
- mortalize — (transitive) To make mortal.
- mousetail — (botany) Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family.
- multiatom — involving many atoms
- mutilator — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- nationals — Plural form of national.
- natrolite — a white or colorless zeolite mineral, a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum, Na 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 ⋅2H 2 O, often occurring in acicular crystals.
- nautiloid — a mollusk of the subclass Nautiloidea, including nautiluses and many fossil species that were abundant in the Ordovician and Silurian periods.
- neo-latin — New Latin.
- niocalite — (mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic light yellow mineral containing calcium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, and silicon.
- noctiluca — a dinoflagellate of the genus Noctiluca, capable of producing light and, in groups, of causing a luminous appearance of the sea.
- noncoital — not involving sexual intercourse
- nonpliant — not pliant; inflexible