9-letter words containing l, e, a
- analogues — Plural form of analogue.
- analyzers — Plural form of analyzer.
- ancestral — You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
- anchylose — ankylose
- anciently — in ancient times
- andouille — a spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin
- androcles — (in Roman legend) a slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had once extracted a thorn
- anecdotal — Anecdotal evidence is based on individual accounts, rather than on reliable research or statistics, and so may not be valid.
- anelastic — relating to anelasticity
- anemology — the study of winds
- aneuploid — (of polyploid cells or organisms) having a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number, caused by one chromosome set being incomplete
- angel bed — French Furniture. a bed having a suspended or bracketed canopy of less than full length. Compare duchesse bed.
- angelfish — any of various small tropical marine percoid fishes of the genus Pomacanthus and related genera, which have a deep flattened brightly coloured body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- angelhood — the state of being an angel
- angelical — of or belonging to angels: the angelic host.
- angelicas — Plural form of angelica.
- angelique — a female given name.
- angelwing — A kind of mollusk; a piddock.
- angerless — showing no sign of anger
- angle bar — an iron or a steel structural bar that has an L-shaped cross section
- angle-bar — an iron or steel bar, brace, or cleat in the form of an angle.
- angle-off — the angle formed by the line of flight of an aerial target and the line of sight on a gun of an attacking aircraft.
- anglesite — a white or grey secondary mineral consisting of lead sulphate in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in lead-ore deposits and is a source of lead. Formula: PbSO4
- anglewing — any of several nymphalid butterflies, especially of the genus Polygonia, having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings.
- anglewise — at an angle, in an angular manner
- angleworm — an earthworm used as bait by anglers
- anglicise — (transitive) To make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.
- anglicize — If you anglicize something, you change it so that it resembles or becomes part of the English language or English culture.
- anglified — (sometimes lowercase) to Anglicize.
- angouleme — city in SW France: pop. 46,000
- angulated — Simple past tense and past participle of angulate.
- animalier — a painter or sculptor of animal subjects, esp a member of a group of early 19th-century French sculptors who specialized in realistic figures of animals, usually in bronze
- animalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of animalize.
- animalize — to rouse to brutality or sensuality or make brutal or sensual
- animately — In an animate way.
- anklebone — the bone of the ankle; talus
- ankylosed — Simple past tense and past participle of ankylose.
- annalised — Simple past tense and past participle of annalise.
- annandale — suburb of Washington, D.C., in NE Va.: pop. 55,000
- annealing — Annealing is the process of heating a metal or alloy to a temperature below its melting point in order to make it softer.
- annelidan — Of or pertaining to the annelids.
- annoyable — Capable of being annoyed.
- annoyedly — With annoyance.
- annualise — To express (a quantity such as an interest rate, profit, expenditure etc.) as if it applied or were measured over one year.
- annualize — to convert (a rate of interest) to an annual rate when it is quoted for a period of less than a year
- annulated — Having rings.
- annulment — The annulment of a contract or marriage is an official declaration that it is invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.
- anomalies — a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form. Synonyms: abnormality, exception, peculiarity.
- anopheles — any of various mosquitoes constituting the genus Anopheles, some species of which transmit the malaria parasite to man
- anorectal — relating to the anus and rectum