9-letter words containing a, o, r, i
- livraison — one of the numbers of a book published in parts
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lock rail — the rail of a door that meets the shutting stile at the level of the lock.
- logarithm — the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log: 2 is the logarithm of 100 to the base 10 (2 = log10 100).
- lombardia — a region of N central Italy, bordering on the Alps: dominated by prosperous lordships and city-states during the Middle Ages; later ruled by Spain and then by Austria before becoming part of Italy in 1859; intensively cultivated and in parts highly industrialized. Pop: 9 108 645 (2003 est). Area: 23 804 sq km (9284 sq miles)
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- 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.
- lunisolar — pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyra viol — a lutelike musical instrument popular in the 16th and 17th centuries: the forerunner of the mandolin
- macaronic — composed of or characterized by Latin words mixed with vernacular words or non-Latin words given Latin endings.
- maccaroni — macaroni.
- macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
- macroglia — Any of various glial cells that are larger than microglia.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- madarosis — the abnormal loss of eyebrows or eyelashes
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- mail room — sorting office for post
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
- mailrooms — Plural form of mailroom.
- main door — the principal or largest door that is used to enter a building which has more than one door
- main road — principal street
- mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- mammiform — having the shape of a breast
- mansionry — (obsolete) The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- māori rat — a small brown rat, Rattus exulans, native to New Zealand
- maracaibo — a seaport in NW Venezuela.
- marasmoid — Resembling or characteristic of marasmus.
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- marigolds — Plural form of marigold.
- mariology — the body of belief, doctrine, and opinion concerning the Virgin Mary.
- markowitz — Harry M, born 1927, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- marlovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Christopher Marlowe or his writings, especially his plays.
- marooning — to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- martinson — Harry Edmund [har-ee ed-muh nd;; Swedish hah-ri ed-moo nt] /ˈhær i ˈɛd mənd;; Swedish ˈhɑ rɪ ˈɛd mʊnt/ (Show IPA), 1904–78, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel prize 1974.