9-letter words containing c, l, i, n, e
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- isoclines — Plural form of isocline.
- isolectin — Any of a number of closely related lectins that are difficult to separate, and act together.
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- klendusic — resistant to disease
- lace into — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lacertian — of or relating to lizards, or like a lizard
- lacertine — belonging or relating to a lacertid
- lacewings — Plural form of lacewing.
- laciniate — cut into narrow, irregular lobes; slashed; jagged.
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- lancinate — to stab or pierce.
- laodicean — lukewarm or indifferent, especially in religion, as were the early Christians of Laodicea.
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- latencies — Plural form of latency.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- lechering — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- lemniscal — relating to a lemniscate
- lemniscus — a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- lenticels — Plural form of lenticel.
- lenticule — one of many tiny cylindrical or spherical lens segments embossed on the surface of a film used in stereoscopic and color photography.
- leucoline — quinoline.
- licencees — a person, company, etc., to whom a license is granted or issued.
- licencing — license.
- licensees — Plural form of licensee.
- licensing — Grant a license to (someone or something) to permit the use of something or to allow an activity to take place.
- licensors — Plural form of licensor.
- licensure — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- lichenism — the symbiotic association between a fungus and alga that forms a lichen
- lichenist — a person who studies lichenology
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- licitness — The property of being licit, legalness, appropriateness.
- licker-in — a roller on a carding machine, especially the roller that opens the stock as it is fed into the card and transfers the fibers to the main cylinder.
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- 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.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- limerence — The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation of one’s feelings but not primarily for a sexual relationship.
- line call — the judgment of the umpire or linesman as to whether the ball has landed in or out of court
- line copy — a document, drawing, or the like, consisting of two tones, as black and white, without intermediate gradations. Compare halftone (def 1).
- linolenic — Of or pertaining to linolenic acid or its derivatives.
- locked in — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lucencies — shining.
- lucidness — the quality of being easily understood, completely intelligible, or comprehensible: She makes her argument with pointed logic and exemplary lucidity.
- luciferin — a pigment occurring in luminescent organisms, as fireflies, that emits light when undergoing oxidation.
- luckiness — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- luminance — brightness
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.