9-letter words containing e, i, l, a
- afflicter — a person who causes distress, torment, or affliction
- afterlife — The afterlife is a life that some people believe begins when you die, for example a life in heaven or as another person or animal.
- agatelike — Resembling or characteristic of agate.
- age limit — An age limit is the oldest or youngest age at which you are allowed under particular regulations to do something.
- agelastic — never laughing; mirthless
- agentival — of the performer of an action
- agileness — the quality of being agile
- agilities — the power of moving quickly and easily; nimbleness: exercises demanding agility.
- agrestial — inhabiting a rural area
- ahimelech — a priest who was killed by Saul for helping David. I Sam. 21:1–9; 22:9–23.
- aimlessly — without aim; purposeless.
- air alert — the condition in which combat aircraft are airborne and ready for an operation
- air fleet — a group of military aircraft, usually under one commander.
- air layer — to treat a plant by means of air layering.
- air medal — a U.S. military decoration awarded for meritorious achievement during participation in aerial operations
- air miles — Air miles are points that you collect when you buy certain goods or services and which you can use to pay for air travel.
- air rifle — An air rifle is a rifle which is fired by means of air pressure.
- air valve — a device for controlling the flow of air in a pipe
- air-lance — to clean with an air lance.
- air-slake — to slake (lime or the like) with moist air.
- airfields — Plural form of airfield.
- airlifted — Simple past tense and past participle of airlift.
- airlifter — a large aircraft specially designed to transport heavy cargo and to land on and take off from a relatively short runway.
- airliners — Plural form of airliner.
- airmailed — Simple past tense and past participle of airmail.
- airmobile — capable of being moved by air, esp by helicopter
- airplanes — Plural form of airplane.
- alabamine — (formerly) astatine. Symbol: Ab.
- albert ii — full name Albert Felix Humbert Theodore Christian Eugene Marie. born 1934, king of Belgium (1993–2013); abdicated in favour of his son Philippe
- albertine — a female given name: derived from Albert.
- albertite — a black solid variety of bitumen that has a conchoidal fracture and occurs in veins in oil-bearing strata
- albuginea — (anatomy) A layer of white, fibrous tissue.
- alchemies — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alchemise — to change by or as by alchemy; transmute: to alchemize lead into gold.
- alchemist — An alchemist was a scientist in the Middle Ages who tried to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold.
- alchemize — to alter (an element, metal, etc) by alchemy; transmute
- alcimedes — the mother of Jason.
- alcimedon — an Arcadian hero whose daughter, Philao, was seduced by Hercules.
- aldehydic — any of a class of organic compounds containing the group −CHO, which yields acids when oxidized and alcohols when reduced.
- aleatoric — designating or of music that involves chance or unpredictability in composition or performance or both
- alecithal — (of an ovum) having little or no yolk
- alemannic — the group of High German dialects spoken in Alsace, Switzerland, and SW Germany
- alepidote — (of a fish) not having scales.
- aleuronic — related to the aleurone layer
- alexiares — a son of Hercules and Hebe.
- alexius i — (Alexius Comnenus) 1048-1118; emperor of the Byzantine Empire (1081-1118)
- alfileria — Alt form alfilaria.
- algaecide — a chemical substance for killing and preventing the growth of algae
- algebraic — Algebraic equations, expressions, and principles are based on or use algebra.
- algeciras — a port and resort in SW Spain, on the Strait of Gibraltar: scene of a conference of the Great Powers in 1906. Pop: 108 779 (2003 est)