9-letter words containing l, y, n, c, e
- downcycle — a downward course in the business cycle.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- echoingly — In an echoing way.
- eloquency — (nonstandard) Eloquence.
- entelechy — The realization of potential.
- ethylenic — (organic chemistry) Containing ethylene or an ethylene derivative.
- evincibly — in an evincible manner
- exultancy — Exultance, exultation.
- feculency — an impurity
- flyscreen — A screen attached to the front of a motorcycle, designed to prevent insects from flying into the rider.
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- genically — by a genic process
- glycerine — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- indolency — (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- insolency — Quality of being insolent.
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- line copy — a document, drawing, or the like, consisting of two tones, as black and white, without intermediate gradations. Compare halftone (def 1).
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- lysocline — the depth of the ocean at which the solubility of calcium carbonate increases substantially.
- lysogenic — harboring a temperate virus as a prophage or plasmid.
- minicycle — minibike.
- monocycle — a one-wheeled vehicle.
- necrology — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia
- obscenely — offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved: obscene language.
- once-only — never to be repeated
- phlyctena — a small vesicle, blister, or pustule.
- polygenic — one of a group of nonallelic genes that together control a quantitative characteristic in an organism.
- polynices — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.
- polypneic — characterized by polypnea
- recycling — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- 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.
- say uncle — a brother of one's father or mother.
- sincerely — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- thylacine — a wolflike marsupial, Thylacinus cynocephalus, of Tasmania, tan-colored with black stripes across the back: probably extinct.
- trancedly — in a trancelike manner
- uncleanly — in an unclean manner.
- underclay — a grey or whitish clay rock containing fossilized plant roots and occurring beneath coal seams. When used as a refractory, it is known as fireclay
- virulency — quality of being virulent.
- xylocaine — lidocaine, often used as a local anesthetic by dentists and plastic surgeons