9-letter words containing l, a, k, e, s
- keelboats — Plural form of keelboat.
- keelhauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keelhaul.
- kelp bass — a sea bass, Paralabrax clathratus, of southern California coastal waters, valued as a food and game fish.
- kielbasas — Plural form of kielbasa.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lankester — Sir Edwin Ray, 1847–1929, English zoologist and writer.
- lankiness — The state or condition of being lanky.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- larkiness — the quality or characteristic of being larky
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- leakiness — The property of being leaky.
- 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.
- life mask — a cast of the face of a living person.
- lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
- 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.
- 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.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- make sail — to sail upon, over, or through: to sail the seven seas.
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- mamelukes — Plural form of mameluke.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- milkshake — A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
- monk seal — a small, dark brown, subtropical seal of the genus Monachus: the three species, M. tropicalis of the Caribbean, M. schauinslandi of Hawaiian island regions, and M. monachus of the Mediterranean, are endangered.
- necklaces — Plural form of necklace.
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- plackless — lacking money; penniless
- sabrelike — resembling a sabre
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- sailmaker — a person who makes or repairs sails.
- salt cake — an impure form of sodium sulfate, especially as obtained by the interaction of sulfuric acid and common salt in the synthesis of hydrochloric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of glass, ceramic glazes, soaps, and sodium salts.
- salt lake — a body of water having no outlet to the sea and containing in solution a high concentration of salts, especially sodium chloride.
- sand leek — a Eurasian alliaceous plant, Allium scorodoprasum, having reddish-pink flowers, purple bulbils, and a garlic-like bulb
- scalelike — Zoology. one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins. one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- seakindly — sailing easily in a rough sea.
- self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
- sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
- shalelike — having the properties or appearance of shale
- sharklike — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- sheepwalk — a tract of land on which sheep are pastured.
- sheldrake — any of several Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna, certain species of which have highly variegated plumage.