9-letter words containing s, a, t, i
- latitudes — Plural form of latitude.
- latosolic — belonging or relating to a latosol
- lavations — Plural form of lavation.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- 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.
- 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.
- leastwise — at least; at any rate.
- legations — Plural form of legation.
- legislate — to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws.
- levigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of levigate.
- libations — Plural form of libation.
- liberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liberate.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lift-slab — noting or pertaining to a technique of constructing multistory buildings in which all horizontal slabs are cast at ground level and, when ready, are raised into position by hydraulic jacks.
- liftgates — Plural form of liftgate.
- ligaments — Plural form of ligament.
- ligations — Plural form of ligation.
- ligatures — Plural form of ligature.
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- lipoplast — a small particle in plant cytoplasm, esp that of seeds, in which fat is stored
- literates — Plural form of literate.
- literatus — singular of literati.
- lithiasis — the formation or presence of stony concretions, as calculi, in the body.
- litigants — Plural form of litigant.
- litigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of litigate.
- littorals — Plural form of littoral.
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loathings — Plural form of loathing.
- localists — Plural form of localist.
- locations — Plural form of location.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- loyalists — Plural form of loyalist.
- loyalties — Plural form of loyalty.
- lunations — Plural form of lunation.
- lusitania — (italics) a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I.
- lustihead — lustiness
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- machinist — a person who operates machinery, especially a skilled operator of machine tools.
- macintosh — a raincoat made of rubberized cloth.
- maggotish — Maggoty.
- magisters — Plural form of magister.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- magistral — Pharmacology. prescribed or prepared for a particular occasion, as a remedy. Compare officinal (def 1).
- magmatism — Geology. molten material beneath or within the earth's crust, from which igneous rock is formed.
- magnesite — a mineral, magnesium carbonate, MgCO 3 , having a characteristic conchoidal fracture and usually occurring in white masses.
- magnetics — the science of magnetism.
- magnetise — to make a magnet of or impart the properties of a magnet to.
- magnetism — the properties of attraction possessed by magnets; the molecular properties common to magnets.