9-letter words containing a, s, u, l
- laureates — Plural form of laureate.
- layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
- leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
- leavenous — containing leaven
- ligatures — Plural form of ligature.
- lilaceous — of or approaching the color lilac.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- literatus — singular of literati.
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- lotusland — A place or state concerned solely with, or providing, idle pleasure and luxury.
- louisiana — a state in the S United States. 48,522 sq. mi. (125,672 sq. km). Capital: Baton Rouge. Abbreviation: LA (for use with zip code), La.
- lullabies — Plural form of lullaby.
- lunations — Plural form of lunation.
- lunisolar — pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- lusitania — (italics) a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I.
- lustihead — lustiness
- lustrated — Simple past tense and past participle of lustrate.
- lustrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lustrate.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- majuscule — (of letters) capital.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malamutes — Plural form of malamute.
- 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.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- malleolus — the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- malus-law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- mamelukes — Plural form of mameluke.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manualism — the theory or practice of education for the deaf employing and promoting the use of sign language as the primary means of communication.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculism — Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- mass cult — something regarded as significant by a minority, but a very large one
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- mathusala — Methuselah (def 1).
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- mausoleal — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.