9-letter words containing e, c, a, l, r
- farcelike — Resembling or characteristic of farce.
- febricula — a slight and short fever, especially when of obscure causation.
- file card — a card of a size suitable for filing, typically 3 × 5 inches (7.62 × 12.7 cm) or 4 × 6 inches (10.16 × 15.24 cm).
- fire clay — a refractory clay used for making crucibles, firebricks, etc.
- fireplace — the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned; hearth.
- flagrance — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flareback — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flat race — a race run on a level track having no hurdles, water jumps, hedges, or the like to hinder the speed of the entrants.
- fleet car — A car that is bought as one of a number owned and operated by a particular company, e.g. as company cars
- floricane — a plant stem that grows for a year before bearing fruit and flowers, as in the bramble or raspberry.
- forceable — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- fortalice — a small fort; an outwork.
- fractable — a coping concealing the slopes of the roof, especially one having an ornamental silhouette.
- fractiles — Plural form of fractile.
- freelance — Also, freelancer. a person who works as a writer, designer, performer, or the like, selling work or services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
- frenzical — (obsolete) frantic.
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- generical — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- georgical — Georgic; relating to rural affairs.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
- glaciered — covered by, or coming from, glaciers
- glare ice — ice having a smooth, glassy surface that reflects sunlight.
- gracefull — Archaic form of graceful.
- graceless — without any sense of right or propriety.
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- graticule — Navigation. a network of parallels and meridians on a map or chart.
- grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- hair cell — an epithelial cell having hairlike processes, as that of the organ of Corti.
- half-acre — a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- interclan — a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the Mackenzie clan.
- interlace — progressive coding
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- la crosse — a city in W Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River.
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- lace card — (Obsolete) A punched card with all holes punched (also called a "whoopee card" or "ventilator card"). Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism. Card punches could also jam trying to produce these things owing to power-supply problems. When some practical joker fed a lace card through the reader, you needed to clear the jam with a "card knife" - which you used on the joker first.