9-letter words containing l, a, r
- crucially — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cruz alta — a city in S Brazil.
- cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryptical — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- crystall- — crystallo-
- cuadrilla — a small group, esp a matador's assistants
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cultivars — Plural form of cultivar.
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- culturati — the cultured elite of a society
- cunicular — a small conduit or burrow, as an underground drain or rabbit hole.
- cup coral — any of several species of coral in which the polyp forms and houses itself in a cup-shaped depression in the skeleton.
- curb ball — stoop ball played off a street curb.
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- curialist — a member or supporter of the papal curia
- curlpaper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curricula — the aggregate of courses of study given in a school, college, university, etc.: The school is adding more science courses to its curriculum.
- cursorial — adapted for running
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtailer — One who curtails.
- curtal ax — a cutlass
- curtalaxe — a cutlass
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
- cuticular — Of or pertaining to the cuticle.
- cyclorama — a large picture, such as a battle scene, on the interior wall of a cylindrical room, designed to appear in natural perspective to a spectator in the centre
- dado rail — a moulding at about waist height on an interior wall, used for decoration and to protect the wall
- dairyland — an area or region specializing in dairy production, as Wisconsin and Minnesota in the U.S.
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- daredevil — Daredevil people enjoy doing physically dangerous things.
- darklings — in darkness
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- darlingly — in a darling or charming manner
- dartingly — In a darting manner; rapidly.
- dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
- day-liner — a train, boat, etc., having a regularly scheduled route during daylight hours.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- de la rue — Warren, 1815–89, English astronomer and inventor.
- de valera — Eamon (ˈeɪmən). 1882–1975, Irish statesman; president of Sinn Féin (1917–26) and of the Dáil (1918–22); formed the Fianna Fáil party (1927); prime minister (1937–48; 1951–54; 1957–59) and president (1959–73) of the Irish Republic
- dealmaker — A dealmaker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration