9-letter words containing l, y, c, a
- jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
- lace stay — that part of an Oxford shoe into which eyelets and laces are inserted.
- lachrymal — of or relating to tears.
- lacrimary — of or relating to tears or the lacrimal glands
- lactylate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of a lactylic acid.
- lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- larry car — a car moving on rails and equipped on its underside with a hopper, used to charge coke ovens from above.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- latitancy — The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.
- latrociny — banditry
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- les cayes — Les. Les Cayes.
- lexically — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- lock away — put in prison
- logically — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- logomachy — a dispute about or concerning words.
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
- ludically — in a ludic or playful manner
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- 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.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- 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.
- lyrically — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- lytically — in a lytic manner or involving a lytic phage
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- macrology — Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.
- magically — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- manically — In a manic manner.
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- matchplay — Alternative form of match play.
- medically — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- 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.
- militancy — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
- mimically — In a mimicking or imitative manner.
- musically — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- mycoflora — the fungi characteristic of a particular environment.
- 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
- ochlagogy — (rare) Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
- octastyle — having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.
- ohmically — By means of ohmic heating, the process by which the passage of an electric current through a conductor releases heat.
- olfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.