9-letter words containing a, l, r, m, i
- glamourie — Alternative spelling of glamoury.
- 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.
- grimalkin — a cat.
- hail from — to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
- hail mary — Ave Maria.
- hailstorm — a storm with hail.
- 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.
- hill farm — a farm in a high area, usually concentrating on sheep, because of the lack of winter fodder
- hillerman — Tony, 1925–2008, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- 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.
- immolator — One who offers in sacrifice.
- immorally — violating moral principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics.
- immortals — not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying: our immortal souls.
- impartial — not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge.
- 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
- jim clark — Dr. James H. Clark
- kalamkari — A type of cotton cloth printed by hand, originally made in southern India.
- kamilaroi — an Australian aboriginal language spoken in northern New South Wales.
- kilograms — Plural form of kilogram.
- la mirada — a city in SW California.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- lacrimary — of or relating to tears or the lacrimal glands
- lacrimoso — sad or mournful
- 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.
- laminaria — any of various often very large kelps of the genus Laminaria, some species of which are the source of algins used as thickening or stabilizing agents in foodstuffs and other products.
- laminarin — (carbohydrate) A glucan produced by some brown algae.
- laminator — to separate or split into thin layers.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- larviform — (zoology) Having the form or structure of a larva.
- 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.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- latimeria — any coelacanth fish of the genus Latimeria
- lattimore — Richmond Alexander, 1906–84, U.S. poet, translator, and critic, born in China.
- lcm chair — Eames chair (def 1).
- 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.