9-letter words containing n, a, r, i, l
- land girl — a girl or woman who does farm work, esp in wartime
- land rail — corn crake.
- land rain — a steady, heavy rain.
- lapsarian — Of or pertaining to the fall of man from innocence, especially to the role of women in that fall.
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- largition — an act of, or the quality of, generosity or largesse
- lariating — Present participle of lariat.
- larkiness — the quality or characteristic of being larky
- larrikins — Plural form of larrikin.
- larruping — very; exceedingly: That was a larruping good meal.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- latration — an instance of barking
- latrociny — banditry
- laundries — Plural form of laundry.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- lautering — The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain.
- lawyering — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- learnings — knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
- legionary — of, relating to, or belonging to a legion.
- leningrad — a former name (1924–91) of St. Petersburg (def 1)
- librarian — a person trained in library science and engaged in library service.
- librating — Present participle of librate.
- libration — a real or apparent oscillatory motion, especially of the moon.
- lictorian — of or relating to a lictor
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- line mark — a trademark covering all items of a particular product line.
- linearity — the property, quality, or state of being linear.
- linearize — to make linear; give linear form to.
- link arms — If two or more people link arms, or if one person links arms with another, they stand next to each other, and each person puts their arm round the arm of the person next to them.
- link farm — (file system, Unix) A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
- link road — a road used to link two cities or two more major hubs of road transport
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- livraison — one of the numbers of a book published in parts
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- luminaria — (especially in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a Christmas lantern consisting of a lighted candle set in sand inside a paper bag.
- lunisolar — pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
- luxuriant — abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation.
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- madrilene — a consommé flavored with tomato, frequently jelled and served cold.
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- mainliner — Slang. a person who mainlines.
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
- malingery — The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
- mandrills — Plural form of mandrill.