9-letter words containing o, n, r, e, l
- lohengrin — the son of Parzival, and a knight of the Holy Grail.
- loitering — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- long ream — 500 sheets of paper
- long-term — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- longerons — Plural form of longeron.
- longliner — a commercial fishing vessel that uses a longline.
- longshore — existing, found, or employed along the shore, especially at or near a seaport: longshore jobs; longshore current.
- longtimer — One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- longueurs — Plural form of longueur.
- looker-on — a person who looks on; onlooker; witness; spectator.
- lorgnette — a pair of eyeglasses mounted on a handle.
- lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- mangalore — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- marlstone — an indurated marl.
- melbourne — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- mellotron — a synthesizer that plays a prerecorded sound, stored on tape, when a key is pressed
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- meroclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells.
- mestranol — an estrogen, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives in combination with a progestin.
- moldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- monolayer — molecular film.
- montreuil — a suburb of Paris, in N France.
- myoneural — of or relating to both muscle and nerve.
- natrolite — a white or colorless zeolite mineral, a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum, Na 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 ⋅2H 2 O, often occurring in acicular crystals.
- navelwort — a European plant, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, round leaves and yellowish-green flowers.
- necrology — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- neglector — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- nervously — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- neurocoel — the system of cavities of the embryonic brain and spinal cord.
- neuroglia — a class of cells in the brain and spinal cord that form a supporting structure for the neurons and provide them with insulation.
- neurology — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- neuropile — Alternative form of neuropil.
- new world — Western Hemisphere (def 1).
- niemöller — Martin [mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), 1892–1984, German Lutheran clergyman: resisted Nazism.
- nilometer — a graduated pillar by which the rise and fall of the Nile can be measured
- no longer — not anymore
- noble fir — a fir, Abies procera, of the northwestern U.S., which may grow to a height of 250 feet (76 meters).
- noble rot — the fungus Botrytis cinerea, which is cultivated in some winemaking processes, especially in the making of French Sauternes, where the ripened grapes become shriveled as a result of its introduction, thereby concentrating the juice and increasing the sugar content.
- nonarable — (of land) not arable or suitable for farming
- noncereal — not related to or derived from cereal products or industries
- nongolfer — a person who is not a golfer
- nonlawyer — a person who is not a lawyer
- nonlinear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- nonneural — not neural, not related to or containing nerves