9-letter words containing s, e, r, i, a, l
- grasslike — That has the characteristics of grass.
- grillages — Plural form of grillage.
- grisaille — monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
- guerillas — Plural form of guerilla.
- hair seal — any of various seals having coarse hair and no soft underfur.
- hairlines — Plural form of hairline.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- harestail — a species of cotton grass, Eriophorum vaginatum, more tussocky than common cotton grass and having only a single flower head
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- idolaters — Plural form of idolater.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- installer — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- integrals — Plural form of integral.
- internals — situated or existing in the interior of something; interior.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- islanders — Plural form of islander.
- israelite — a descendant of Jacob, especially a member of the Hebrew people who inhabited the ancient kingdom of Israel.
- jaileress — a female jailer
- laborites — Plural form of laborite.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- larkiness — the quality or characteristic of being larky
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- laterites — Plural form of laterite.
- laundries — Plural form of laundry.
- lavoisier — Antoine Laurent [ahn-twan loh-rahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan loʊˈrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1743–94, French scientist: pioneer in the field of chemistry.
- lawgivers — Plural form of lawgiver.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- learnings — knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
- lexigrams — Plural form of lexigram.
- liberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liberate.
- libraries — Plural form of library.
- lifesaver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- ligatures — Plural form of ligature.
- literates — Plural form of literate.
- literatus — singular of literati.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marseille — a seaport in and the capital of Bouches-du-Rhône department, in SE France.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.