9-letter words containing l, i, n, t, o
- long suit — Cards. the suit in which the most cards are held in a hand. (in bridge) a suit in which four or more cards are held in a hand.
- long tail — the segment of a market representing the large number of products that sell in small quantities, considered by some to be of greater financial value than the few products that sell in very large quantities
- long-list — A long-list for something such as a job or a prize is a large group that has been chosen from all the people who applied for the job, or all the people or things that are competing for the prize. The successful ones from this group are chosen to go on the shortlist.
- long-time — You use long-time to describe something that has existed or been a particular thing for a long time.
- longevity — a long individual life; great duration of individual life: Our family is known for its longevity.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- longtimer — One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- look into — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- losingest — losing more than average; less successful than average.
- lovingest — extremely loving and affectionate.
- low latin — any form of nonclassical Latin, as Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, or Medieval Latin.
- luck into — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- lunations — Plural form of lunation.
- lymington — a market town in S England, in SW Hampshire, on the Solent: yachting centre and holiday resort. Pop: 14 227 (2001)
- malathion — an organic phosphate insecticide, C 10 H 19 O 6 S 2 P, of relatively low toxicity for mammals.
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melatonin — a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in inverse proportion to the amount of light received by the retina, important in the regulation of biorhythms: in amphibians, it causes a lightening of the skin.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- middleton — Thomas, c1570–1627, English dramatist.
- milestone — a stone functioning as a milepost.
- millionth — coming last in a series of a million.
- millstone — either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill.
- miltonian — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- molesting — Present participle of molest.
- monoliths — Plural form of monolith.
- montclair — a city in NE New Jersey.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- monthling — a baby or a thing that is one month old
- monticule — a subordinate volcanic cone.
- montreuil — a suburb of Paris, in N France.
- montville — a town in SE Connecticut.
- moonlight — the light of the moon.
- multipion — involving several or many pions
- multitone — having or characterized by more than one musical tone
- multizone — Of or pertaining to more than one zone.
- mylonitic — relating to or resembling mylonite
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- nationals — Plural form of national.
- natrolite — a white or colorless zeolite mineral, a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum, Na 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 ⋅2H 2 O, often occurring in acicular crystals.
- nautiloid — a mollusk of the subclass Nautiloidea, including nautiluses and many fossil species that were abundant in the Ordovician and Silurian periods.
- neo-latin — New Latin.
- neolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- neologist — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- netbollix — ["bollix": to bungle] IBM's NetBIOS, an extremely brain-damaged network protocol that, like Blue Glue, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
- niccolite — nickeline.
- nicolette — a female given name, form of Nicole.
- night owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- night-owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nightglow — a dim light from the upper atmosphere caused by emissions from atoms and molecules ionized by solar radiation: observed at night (nightglow) during the day (dayglow) and at twilight (twilight glow) with each having slightly different characteristics.