9-letter words containing o, r, e, l, s
- lotteries — Plural form of lottery.
- lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
- lovebirds — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
- lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- loverless — having no lover
- lower set — (mathematics) A finite non-empty downward closed subset of a partial order.
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- lowermost — lowest1 .
- lusterous — Misspelling of lustrous.
- lyomerous — of or relating to Lyomeri fish
- maelstrom — a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool.
- marlstone — an indurated marl.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mealworms — Plural form of mealworm.
- megestrol — A steroidal progestin.
- meliorism — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- meliorist — A proponent of meliorism.
- memorials — Plural form of memorial.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- mestranol — an estrogen, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives in combination with a progestin.
- mirligoes — dizziness
- misoclere — hostile to clergy
- molesters — Plural form of molester.
- moralised — Simple past tense and past participle of moralise.
- moralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moralize.
- moralless — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
- mortalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of mortalize.
- motorless — Without a motor (machine or device).
- mulierose — (obsolete) Fond of women.
- nervously — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- nonserial — not serial
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- norseller — someone who norsels; someone who fits (a fishing net) with norsels
- obscurely — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obversely — In an obverse manner.
- odourless — Having no odour.
- ogreishly — in the manner of an ogre
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives
- old norse — the Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia. Abbreviation: ON.
- oleanders — Plural form of oleander.
- oleasters — Plural form of oleaster.
- oleoresin — a mixture of an essential oil and a resin, found in nature.
- oligomers — Plural form of oligomer.
- onerously — In an onerous manner.
- onlookers — Plural form of onlooker.
- operosely — In an operose manner.
- orderless — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- orderlies — arranged or disposed in a neat, tidy manner or in a regular sequence: an orderly desk.
- orientals — Plural form of oriental.
- orleanais — a former province in N France. Capital: Orléans.