9-letter words containing l, a, r, c
- la coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- la crosse — a city in W Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River.
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- lace card — (Obsolete) A punched card with all holes punched (also called a "whoopee card" or "ventilator card"). Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism. Card punches could also jam trying to produce these things owing to power-supply problems. When some practical joker fed a lace card through the reader, you needed to clear the jam with a "card knife" - which you used on the joker first.
- lace-fern — a small, tufted fern, Cheilanthes gracillima, having dark-brown stalks and fronds about 4 inches (10.2 cm) long.
- lacemaker — A person who makes lace.
- lacerated — lacerated.
- lacerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lacerate.
- lacertian — of or relating to lizards, or like a lizard
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacertine — belonging or relating to a lacertid
- lachrymal — of or relating to tears.
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lacquerer — One who lacquers.
- lacrimary — of or relating to tears or the lacrimal glands
- lacrimoso — sad or mournful
- lactarian — lactovegetarian (def 1).
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
- lanceolar — (botany) lanceolate.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- land crab — any of several crabs, especially of the family Gecarcinidae, that live chiefly upon land, returning to the sea to breed.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- lap-chart — a log of every lap covered by each car in a race, showing the exact position throughout
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- largactil — a brand of chlorpromazine used as a tranquillizer, sedative, and antipsychotic
- large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
- larry car — a car moving on rails and equipped on its underside with a hopper, used to charge coke ovens from above.
- larvacean — Any of various solitary, free-swimming tunicates of the class Larvacea.
- 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.
- latecomer — a person who arrives late: The latecomers were seated after the overture.
- 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.
- latreutic — of or relating to latria.
- latrociny — banditry
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- law court — court of law.
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- lcm chair — Eames chair (def 1).
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- leaf scar — the mark left on a stem or twig after a leaf falls.