9-letter words containing l, a, r, c
- lectorate — a lecturer in a college or university.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- lictorian — of or relating to a lictor
- 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.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lock rail — the rail of a door that meets the shutting stile at the level of the lock.
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- long card — a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- 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.
- lyrically — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- mackellar — Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote My Country, Australia's best known poem
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- macroalga — Large algae, often living attached in dense beds, such as kelp.
- macroglia — Any of various glial cells that are larger than microglia.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- macrology — Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.
- marcelled — Simple past tense and past participle of marcel.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- marchland — borderland.
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- matchgirl — A girl who sold matches on the streets.
- matricula — a register of people belonging to a group or organization, such as a guild or university
- mcalester — a city in E Oklahoma.
- mcpartlin — Antony. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Declan Donnelly as Ant and Dec
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- metalcore — (music) A genre of rock music related to punk and heavy metal.
- microalga — Any of many microscopic photosynthetic protists, often living as single cells and floating as plankton.
- microbial — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microglia — Glial cells derived from mesoderm that function as macrophages (scavengers) in the central nervous system and form part of the reticuloendothelial system.
- microloan — a very small, short-term loan at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.