9-letter words containing l, a, y, e
- lethality — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- lexically — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- liberally — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- lineality — The quality of being lineal.
- linearity — the property, quality, or state of being linear.
- literally — in the literal or strict sense: She failed to grasp the metaphor and interpreted the poem literally. What does the word mean literally?
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- loyalness — faithful to one's sovereign, government, or state: a loyal subject.
- loyalties — Plural form of loyalty.
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- lyke-wake — a watch held over a dead person, often with festivities
- lyon bean — a vine, Mucuna niveum, of southern Asia and the Philippines, having showy clusters of white flowers and whitish hairy pods, grown widely as a forage crop.
- lyonnaise — (of food, especially fried potatoes) cooked with pieces of onion.
- 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.
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- maleberry — swamp andromeda.
- malingery — The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
- malleably — In a malleable manner; flexibly.
- manlikely — in a manlike manner
- manslayer — a person who kills another human being.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- maryellen — a female given name.
- maryville — a city in E Tennessee.
- massively — consisting of or forming a large mass; bulky and heavy: massive columns.
- may apple — an American plant, Podophyllum peltatum, of the barberry family, bearing an edible, yellowish, egg-shaped fruit.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- meaningly — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- medalplay — (in golf) scoring system in which the score is based on the total number of strokes taken
- mediately — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- medically — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- medullary — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling the medulla of an organ or the medulla oblongata.
- megacycle — Electricity. a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second; megahertz. The term megahertz is now preferred in technical use. Abbreviation: Mc, mc.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- meghalaya — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- melt away — thaw
- memorably — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
- metaxylem — the part of the primary xylem that is the last to be formed, usually having weblike or pitted surfaces.
- methylase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyse methylation
- methylate — Also called methoxide. any derivative of methyl alcohol, as sodium methylate, CH 3 ONa.
- millenary — consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, especially a thousand years.
- minelayer — a naval ship equipped for placing mines in the water.
- miserably — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- molybdate — a salt of any molybdic acid.
- monolayer — molecular film.