9-letter words containing i, r, e, c, l
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- merciless — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- microlite — any microscopic crystal.
- 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.
- mill-race — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- millraces — (archaic) Plural form of millrace.
- misoclere — hostile to clergy
- 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
- neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- overchill — to make too cold
- overcivil — too civil
- 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.
- pendicler — the holder or renter of a pendicle
- 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.
- pericline — a variety of albite occurring in large, white opaque crystals.
- pericycle — the outermost cell layer of the stele in a plant, frequently becoming a multilayered zone.
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- pleuritic — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- preachily — in a preachy fashion
- precisely — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- 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.
- predilect — chosen in preference; preferred
- preexilic — of that period of Jewish history preceding the Babylonian Exile (6th cent. b.c.)
- 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.
- priceless — having a value beyond all price; invaluable: a priceless artwork.
- principle — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prolicide — the killing of one's child.
- quercitol — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
- quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
- rachillae — Plural form of rachilla.
- racialise — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.