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9-letter words containing c, o, l, i, r

  • inclosers — Plural form of incloser.
  • inclosure — enclosure.
  • inflictor — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
  • interlock — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
  • involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
  • ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
  • kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
  • lacrimoso — sad or mournful
  • lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
  • latrociny — banditry
  • licensors — Plural form of licensor.
  • lictorian — of or relating to a lictor
  • liquorice — licorice.
  • 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.
  • lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
  • lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
  • longicorn — having long antennae.
  • lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
  • ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
  • lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
  • lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
  • 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.
  • microalga — Any of many microscopic photosynthetic protists, often living as single cells and floating as plankton.
  • microbial — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
  • microblog — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
  • microfilm — a film bearing a miniature photographic copy of printed or other graphic matter, usually of a document, newspaper or book pages, etc., made for a library, archive, or the like.
  • microglia — Glial cells derived from mesoderm that function as macrophages (scavengers) in the central nervous system and form part of the reticuloendothelial system.
  • microlite — any microscopic crystal.
  • microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
  • microloan — a very small, short-term loan at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
  • micrology — excessive attention to petty details or distinctions.
  • micromole — (chemistry, physics) One millionth of a mole.
  • micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
  • microslop — (company, abuse)   A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
  • microvolt — a unit of electromotive force or potential difference equal to one millionth of a volt. Symbol: μV, μ v.
  • millocrat — a member of a government or ruling class of mill owners
  • miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
  • misoclere — hostile to clergy
  • montclair — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • multicore — (computer hardware, of a processor) Combining two or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit.
  • necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
  • nonracial — of or relating to the social construct of race: racial diversity; racial stereotypes.
  • ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
  • oil color — a paint made by grinding a pigment in oil, usually linseed oil.
  • oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
  • oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
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