9-letter words containing a, l, t, e, r, i
- literates — Plural form of literate.
- literatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- literator — littérateur.
- literatus — singular of literati.
- litterbag — a small paper or plastic bag for trash or rubbish, as one carried in an automobile.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- luxuriate — to enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
- 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.
- 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.
- megalitre — A unit of volume equivalent to 1000000 litres. Symbol: Ml.
- meliorate — (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- meritable — Deserving of reward.
- metralgia — pain in the uterus.
- misrelate — (transitive) To relate inaccurately.
- mitraille — the shot or small pieces of iron that are fired from a cannon
- mortalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of mortalize.
- mortalize — (transitive) To make mortal.
- multiyear — Having a duration of multiple years.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- nailbiter — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- 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.
- orientals — Plural form of oriental.
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- pearlitic — Metallurgy. a microscopic lamellar structure found in iron or steel, composed of alternating layers of ferrite and cementite.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- portatile — portable
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prelatial — of, or relating to, a prelate
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- prelatize — to advocate or bring under the authority of prelacy
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate