9-letter words containing c, a, l, e, o
- ileocecal — of, relating to, or involving the ileum and cecum.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- jane cowl — Jane, 1884–1950, U.S. actress and playwright.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- la crosse — a city in W Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River.
- lace into — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- lanceolar — (botany) lanceolate.
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- laodicean — lukewarm or indifferent, especially in religion, as were the early Christians of Laodicea.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- latecomer — a person who arrives late: The latecomers were seated after the overture.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- lectorate — a lecturer in a college or university.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- lidocaine — a synthetic crystalline powder, C 14 H 22 N 2 O, used as a local anesthetic and also in the management of certain arrhythmias.
- lilaceous — of or approaching the color lilac.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- loadspace — the area in a motor vehicle where a load can be carried
- localised — localisation
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- localizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of localize.
- locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- locatelli — Pietro [pee-ey-troh;; Italian pye-traw] /piˈeɪ troʊ;; Italian ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1695–1764, Italian violinist and composer.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- locellate — split into secondary cells
- lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
- lock seam — a joint between two pieces of sheet metal, made by folding up the overlapping edges against each other, then folding them over in the same direction a number of times.
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- loculated — Locular.
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- long face — an unhappy or gloomy expression: He's been walking around with a long face ever since he failed the examination.
- lose face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- megacolon — (uncountable) Abnormal dilatation of the colon, not caused by mechanical obstruction.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melomanic — characterized by a great enthusiasm for music
- meloxicam — an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat osteoarthritis
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- mesoscale — pertaining to meteorological phenomena, such as wind circulation and cloud patterns, that are about 1–100 km (0.6–60 miles) in horizontal extent.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.