9-letter words containing l, y, c, a, n
- day-clean — the time after first dawn when the sun begins to shine; clear daybreak
- de lancey — James, 1703–60, American jurist and politician in New York.
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- dilatancy — dilating; expanding.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dynamical — Dynamic.
- exultancy — Exultance, exultation.
- flagrancy — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- genically — by a genic process
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- incapably — In an incapable manner.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
- latitancy — The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.
- latrociny — banditry
- lynch law — the administration of summary punishment, especially death, upon a suspected, accused, or convicted person by a mob acting without legal process or authority.
- manically — In a manic manner.
- militancy — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
- myoclonia — a disease characterized by myoclonus.
- narcology — The study of drug abuse.
- nyctalgia — night pain that occurs in the sleep.
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia
- nyctalops — a person affected by nyctalopia
- ontically — In an ontic sense.
- panically — in a panicky manner
- phlyctena — a small vesicle, blister, or pustule.
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- relevancy — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- salcantay — a mountain in the Andes in S central Peru: highest peak in the Cordillera Vilcabamba. 20,574 feet (6271 meters).
- say uncle — a brother of one's father or mother.
- scaringly — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- sonically — in a sonic manner
- staunchly — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- synclinal — sloping downward from opposite directions so as to meet in a common point or line.
- syncytial — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- syndactyl — having certain digits joined together.
- synodical — of a synod; synodal
- thylacine — a wolflike marsupial, Thylacinus cynocephalus, of Tasmania, tan-colored with black stripes across the back: probably extinct.
- tonically — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
- trancedly — in a trancelike manner
- uncannily — having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
- unclarity — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.