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9-letter words containing s, a, l, t

  • lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
  • lancelets — Plural form of lancelet.
  • landdrost — the chief magistrate of a district
  • landsleit — fellow Jews; sometimes, specif., those from the same town or village in Europe as oneself
  • landsting — (formerly) the upper house of the Danish parliament.
  • landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
  • langouste — spiny lobster.
  • lankester — Sir Edwin Ray, 1847–1929, English zoologist and writer.
  • lantastic — (networking, product)   A trademarked name for numerous products of Artisoft, Inc..
  • lanthorns — Plural form of lanthorn.
  • lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
  • lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
  • larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
  • laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
  • lassitude — weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor.
  • last gasp — a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
  • last mile — the distance walked by a condemned person from his or her cell to the place of execution.
  • last name — surname (def 1).
  • last post — a position of duty, employment, or trust to which one is assigned or appointed: a diplomatic post.
  • last word — the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
  • last-born — last in order of birth; youngest.
  • last-gasp — a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
  • lastingly — continuing or enduring a long time; permanent; durable: a lasting friendship.
  • latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
  • latencies — Plural form of latency.
  • latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
  • laterites — Plural form of laterite.
  • latescent — becoming latent
  • lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
  • latitudes — Plural form of latitude.
  • latosolic — belonging or relating to a latosol
  • laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
  • laureates — Plural form of laureate.
  • lavateras — Plural form of lavatera.
  • lavations — Plural form of lavation.
  • laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
  • lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
  • layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
  • lazy list — A list which is built using a non-strict constructor. Any head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure. Also known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of values from the output of one function to an input of another. See also Lazy evaluation.
  • leachates — Plural form of leachate.
  • lead shot — small round pellets of lead, used in cartridges
  • leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
  • leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
  • leaf site — A machine that merely originates and reads Usenet news or mail, and does not relay any third-party traffic. Often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites gets too high, the network tends to develop bottlenecks. Compare backbone site, rib site.
  • leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
  • leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
  • leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
  • leastwise — at least; at any rate.
  • leetspeak — a coded spelling system and language used in very informal communications on the Internet, featuring letters combined with numbers or special characters in place of letters that they may resemble, and including inventive misspellings, jargon, and slang.
  • leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
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