9-letter words containing k, a, e, l
- larkiness — the quality or characteristic of being larky
- larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- late-wake — a lyke-wake
- lava-like — resembling lava in behaviour or consistency
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- leakiness — The property of being leaky.
- leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
- leaseback — the disposal of a building, land, or other property to a buyer under special arrangements for simultaneously leasing it on a long-term basis to the original seller, usually with an option to renew the lease.
- leetspeak — a coded spelling system and language used in very informal communications on the Internet, featuring letters combined with numbers or special characters in place of letters that they may resemble, and including inventive misspellings, jargon, and slang.
- left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
- left bank — a part of Paris, France, on the S bank of the Seine: frequented by artists, writers, and students.
- leg break — a ball deviating to the off side from the leg side when bowled.
- leg-break — a ball deviating to the off side from the leg side when bowled.
- leninakan — a city in NW Armenia.
- leukaemia — (UK) alternative spelling of leukemia.
- leukaemic — relating to, or affected by, leukaemia
- leukothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- life mask — a cast of the face of a living person.
- lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
- like that — in that way
- line mark — a trademark covering all items of a particular product line.
- link-dead — Said of a MUD character who has frozen in place because of a dropped network connection.
- lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
- lock seam — a joint between two pieces of sheet metal, made by folding up the overlapping edges against each other, then folding them over in the same direction a number of times.
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- lookahead — (computing) The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
- lookalike — a person or thing that looks like or closely resembles another; double.
- lookaside — (computing) The technique of searching for something in a precalculated cache before attempting a more time-consuming search elsewhere.
- lossmaker — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- lovemaker — Someone who makes love.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- lyke-wake — a watch held over a dead person, often with festivities
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- mackellar — Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote My Country, Australia's best known poem
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- make bail — If someone who has been arrested makes bail, or if another person makes bail for them, the arrested person is released on bail.
- make bold — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make like — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make love — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- make sail — to sail upon, over, or through: to sail the seven seas.
- make talk — to talk idly, as in an effort to pass time
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- mallemuck — mollymawk.
- mamelukes — Plural form of mameluke.
- manlikely — in a manlike manner