9-letter words containing s, o, r, a, l
- laborists — Plural form of laborist.
- laborites — Plural form of laborite.
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- lacrimoso — sad or mournful
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- landdrost — the chief magistrate of a district
- landforms — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- landlords — Plural form of landlord.
- lanthorns — Plural form of lanthorn.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of 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
- lass-lorn — abandoned in love by a young girl
- 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.
- lavoisier — Antoine Laurent [ahn-twan loh-rahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan loʊˈrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1743–94, French scientist: pioneer in the field of chemistry.
- law lords — (in Britain) members of the House of Lords who sit as the highest court of appeal, although in theory the full House of Lords has this role
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- lease rod — a rod or bar between the whip roll and the harness on a loom for keeping the warp in place.
- leeboards — Plural form of leeboard.
- lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
- littorals — Plural form of littoral.
- livraison — one of the numbers of a book published in parts
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- loanshark — Alternative spelling of loan shark.
- loanwords — Plural form of loanword.
- lodestars — Plural form of lodestar.
- logograms — Plural form of logogram.
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- lossmaker — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- low brass — an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc, with traces of lead and iron.
- 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.
- lunisolar — pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
- maelstrom — a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mailrooms — Plural form of mailroom.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- marigolds — Plural form of marigold.
- marlstone — an indurated marl.