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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 cayesLes. 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.
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