9-letter words containing e, c, l, a, i, r
- lacertian — of or relating to lizards, or like a lizard
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacertine — belonging or relating to a lacertid
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- lateritic — a reddish ferruginous soil formed in tropical regions by the decomposition of the underlying rocks.
- laticifer — a tubular structure through which latex circulates in a plant.
- latreutic — of or relating to latria.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- life-care — designed to provide for the basic needs of elderly residents, usually in return for an initial fee and monthly service payments: a life-care facility; life-care communities.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- mill-race — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- millraces — (archaic) Plural form of millrace.
- neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- paperclip — a flat wire or plastic clip shaped so that it can hold sheets of paper between two of its loops.
- parceling — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- pearlitic — Metallurgy. a microscopic lamellar structure found in iron or steel, composed of alternating layers of ferrite and cementite.
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.
- percaline — a fine, lightweight cotton fabric, usually finished with a gloss and dyed in one color, used especially for linings.
- percivale — a knight who is allowed to see the Holy Grail
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- periclean — of or relating to Pericles or to the period (Periclean Age) when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- preachily — in a preachy fashion
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- rachillae — Plural form of rachilla.
- racialise — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.
- racialize — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
- reacclaim — to acclaim again