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9-letter words containing l, e, t, r, s

  • herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
  • hesternal — (rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
  • hillcrest — The crest of a hill.
  • hitlerism — the doctrines, principles, and practices of the Nazi party, especially as developed by Hitler; Nazism.
  • hollister — a town in W California.
  • holstered — a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
  • horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
  • hostelers — Plural form of hosteler.
  • hosteller — a person who operates a hostel.
  • hoteliers — Plural form of hotelier.
  • idolaters — Plural form of idolater.
  • inshelter — to put in a shelter
  • installer — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
  • instiller — One who instills.
  • integrals — Plural form of integral.
  • interlisp — (language)   A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
  • internals — situated or existing in the interior of something; interior.
  • intervals — Plural form of interval.
  • israelite — a descendant of Jacob, especially a member of the Hebrew people who inhabited the ancient kingdom of Israel.
  • jetliners — Plural form of jetliner.
  • k&r style — (programming)   An ugly, obsolete, deprecated source code indent style that looks like this: if (cond) { } The basic indent is eight spaces (or one tab) per level; less commonly four. It is named after Kernighan & Ritchie because the examples in K&R are formatted this way. It is also called "kernel style" (because the Unix kernel was written in it) or Egyptian brackets. This style was popular when programmers worked on small displays, or when printing code on paper, becuase it saves vertical space. It should be avoided because the opening brace is easy to miss at the end of a long condition in an "if" or "while" statement and it makes it hard to pair up braces.
  • laborites — Plural form of laborite.
  • lacerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lacerate.
  • lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
  • lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
  • lamenters — Plural form of lamenter.
  • 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).
  • lankester — Sir Edwin Ray, 1847–1929, English zoologist and writer.
  • lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
  • lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
  • larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
  • laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
  • laterites — Plural form of laterite.
  • laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
  • laureates — Plural form of laureate.
  • lavateras — Plural form of lavatera.
  • leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
  • leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
  • lecturers — Plural form of lecturer.
  • leftovers — Plural form of leftover.
  • leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
  • leicester — 1st Earl of, Robert Dudley.
  • leprosity — the state of being leprous
  • letterset — a process of printing that transfers the image from a letterpress-type relief plate to a roller or blanket from which it is offset.
  • levanters — Plural form of levanter.
  • liberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liberate.
  • liberties — Plural form of liberty.
  • librettos — Plural form of libretto.
  • ligatures — Plural form of ligature.
  • listeners — Plural form of listener.
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