9-letter words containing a, y, c
- lachrymal — of or relating to tears.
- lacrimary — of or relating to tears or the lacrimal glands
- lactylate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of a lactylic acid.
- lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- larry car — a car moving on rails and equipped on its underside with a hopper, used to charge coke ovens from above.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- latitancy — The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.
- latrociny — banditry
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- les cayes — Les. Les Cayes.
- lexically — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- lock away — put in prison
- logically — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- logomachy — a dispute about or concerning words.
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
- ludically — in a ludic or playful manner
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- lynch law — the administration of summary punishment, especially death, upon a suspected, accused, or convicted person by a mob acting without legal process or authority.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- lyrically — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- lytically — in a lytic manner or involving a lytic phage
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macrocopy — an enlargement of printed material for easier reading
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macrology — Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.
- magic eye — a miniature cathode-ray tube in some radio receivers, on the screen of which a pattern is displayed in order to assist tuning
- magically — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- manically — In a manic manner.
- manoscopy — the measurement of the densities of gases
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- match day — the day on which a sports match, esp a football match, takes place
- matchplay — Alternative form of match play.
- mccartney — (Sir) (James) Paul, born 1942, English singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for the Beatles.
- medically — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- megacycle — Electricity. a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second; megahertz. The term megahertz is now preferred in technical use. Abbreviation: Mc, mc.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mercenary — working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- metacryst — a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.
- militancy — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
- mimically — In a mimicking or imitative manner.