9-letter words containing l
- almandite — almandine.
- almodóvar — Pedro. born 1949, Spanish film director. His provocative black comedies include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), The Flower of My Secret (1995), Talk to Her (2002), Volver (2006), and The Skin I Live In (2011)
- almohades — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa during the 12th and 13th centuries.
- almoravid — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
- almsgiver — a person who gives alms
- almshouse — Almshouses are houses in Britain which were built and run by charities to provide accommodation for poor or old people who could not afford to pay rent.
- almsman's — a person supported by or receiving alms.
- almswoman — a woman who gives or receives alms
- aloe vera — Aloe vera is a substance that contains vitamins and minerals and is often used in cosmetics. Aloe vera is also the name of the plant from which this substance is extracted.
- aloeswood — agalloch.
- aloha net — (networking) (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa. Its purpose was to link the University mainframe computer to client computers located on outer islands at University campuses. Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net. Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the commercial phone lines.
- aloneness — the state of being alone
- alongside — If one thing is alongside another thing, the first thing is next to the second.
- aloofness — the quality or state of being aloof, distant, or reserved; indifference: His girlfriend's recent aloofness may be a sign that the relationship is over.
- alopecoid — resembling a fox
- alpargata — a sandal
- alpenglow — a reddish light on the summits of snow-covered mountain peaks at sunset or sunrise
- alpenhorn — a long, powerful horn of wood or bark, with a cupped mouthpiece and a curved bell at opposite ends, used by Swiss herders and mountaineers.
- alpha ev6 — EV6
- alpha ray — ionizing radiation consisting of a stream of alpha particles
- alphabets — Plural form of alphabet.
- alphagram — The letters of a word, or any other set of letters, arranged into alphabetical order.
- alphasort — to arrange in alphabetical order
- alphonsus — a crater in the SE quadrant of the moon, about 112 km in diameter, in which volcanic activity may have occurred
- alpinists — Plural form of alpinist.
- alt-right — (in the US) a political movement whose supporters hold extreme right-wing views and reject mainstream politics
- altar boy — In the Roman Catholic church, an altar boy is a boy who helps the priest during Mass.
- altarwise — in the position of an altar
- altdorfer — Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). ?1480–?1538, German painter and engraver: one of the earliest landscape painters
- alter ego — Your alter ego is the other side of your personality from the one which people normally see.
- alterable — capable of being altered.
- alterably — In an alterable manner.
- altercate — to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
- alternant — alternating
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- althusser — Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife
- altigraph — an instrument that measures altitude and records the measurements graphically
- altimeter — An altimeter is an instrument in an aircraft that shows the height of the aircraft above the ground.
- altimetre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of altimeter.
- altimetry — the science of measuring altitudes, as with an altimeter
- altiplano — a plateau of the Andes, covering two thirds of Bolivia and extending into S Peru: contains Lake Titicaca. Height: 3000 m (10 000 ft) to 3900 m (13 000 ft)
- altissimo — (of music) very high in pitch
- altitudes — Plural form of altitude.
- alto clef — the clef that establishes middle C as being on the third line of the staff
- altricial — (of the young of some species of birds after hatching) naked, blind, and dependent on the parents for food
- altruists — Plural form of altruist.
- alum rock — a town in W central California, near San Jose.
- aluminate — a salt of the ortho or meta acid forms of aluminium hydroxide containing the ions AlO2– or AlO33–
- aluminise — To coat with a layer of aluminium.
- aluminite — a mineral, hydrous aluminum sulfate, Al 2 (SO 4)(OH) 4 ⋅7H 2 O, occurring in white, chalky masses.