9-letter words containing k, e, l, y
- lake eyre — a shallow salt lake or salt flat in NE central South Australia, about 11 m (35 ft) below sea level, divided into two areas (North and South); it usually contains little or no water. Maximum area: 9600 sq km (3700 sq miles)
- lake-eyre — Lake, a shallow salt lake in S South Australia. 3430 sq. mi. (8885 sq. km).
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- leukocyte — white blood cell.
- leukotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- like fury — violently; furiously
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- 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.
- manlikely — in a manlike manner
- mccloskey — John, 1810–85, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: first U.S. cardinal 1875.
- midweekly — midweek.
- mullarkey — Alternative form of malarkey.
- nikolayev — a city in S Ukraine, in the SW on the Bug River.
- nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
- olykoeks' — doughnut.
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- puppylike — resembling a puppy or the manner of a puppy
- puttylike — resembling or characteristic of putty
- rakehelly — of, resembling, or characteristic of a rakehell; profligate
- ricketily — in a rickety or shaky manner
- seakindly — sailing easily in a rough sea.
- skylarker — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- skylounge — a vehicle designed to be lifted by helicopter between an intown passenger terminal and an airport.
- slack-key — a style of Hawaiian popular music played on an acoustic guitar with strings tuned to notes lower than standard guitar tuning for more bass resonance.
- snake fly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- stylebook — a book containing rules of usage in typography, punctuation, etc., employed by printers, editors, and writers.
- sylphlike — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- thelytoky — parthenogenesis in which only females are produced.
- triweekly — every three weeks.
- wakefully — In a wakeful manner.
- yale lock — a type of cylinder lock using a flat serrated key
- yarmulkes — Plural form of yarmulke.
- zemlinsky — Alexander von, 1871–1942, Austrian composer and conductor.