9-letter words containing l, a, c, e, i
- incitable — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- inclimate — Misspelling of inclement.
- inculcate — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- indexical — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- inelastic — not elastic; lacking flexibility or resilience; unyielding.
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- interclan — a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the Mackenzie clan.
- interlace — progressive coding
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- italicise — to print in italic type.
- italicize — to print in italic type.
- jail cell — a small room in a jail where a prisoner is kept
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.
- la chaise — Père François d'Aix de [frahn-swa de duh] /frɑ̃ˈswa dɛ də/ (Show IPA), 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.
- lace into — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lacertian — of or relating to lizards, or like a lizard
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacertine — belonging or relating to a lacertid
- lacewings — Plural form of lacewing.
- laciniate — cut into narrow, irregular lobes; slashed; jagged.
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- laid deck — a wooden deck having planking laid parallel to the sides of the hull so as to follow the curves toward the ends of the vessel.
- lancinate — to stab or pierce.
- laodicean — lukewarm or indifferent, especially in religion, as were the early Christians of Laodicea.
- 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.
- latencies — Plural form of latency.
- 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.
- laticlave — (in ancient Rome) a broad purple stripe on the tunic of a Roman senator or high-ranking official, denoting their high social position
- latreutic — of or relating to latria.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- lemniscal — relating to a lemniscate
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- leucaemia — Alternative spelling of leukemia.
- leukaemic — relating to, or affected by, leukaemia
- levitical — of or relating to the Levites.
- lexically — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.
- lidocaine — a synthetic crystalline powder, C 14 H 22 N 2 O, used as a local anesthetic and also in the management of certain arrhythmias.
- 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.