9-letter words containing t, a, i, l, s
- internals — situated or existing in the interior of something; interior.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isolating — isolated; alone.
- isolation — an act or instance of isolating.
- isolative — noting a change in part of the sound of a word made independently of the phonetic environment of that part.
- isolators — Plural form of isolator.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- israelite — a descendant of Jacob, especially a member of the Hebrew people who inhabited the ancient kingdom of Israel.
- istambuli — a native or inhabitant of Istanbul.
- italicise — to print in italic type.
- italicism — Italianism, especially an idiom or a characteristic of the Italian language.
- jailbaits — a girl with whom sexual intercourse is punishable as statutory rape because she is under the legal age of consent.
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- jubilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jubilate.
- katalysis — catalysis.
- kilowatts — Plural form of kilowatt.
- klinostat — a rotating and tilting plant-holder used for studying and experimenting with plant growth
- labellist — a person who wears only clothes with fashionable brand names
- laborists — Plural form of laborist.
- laborites — Plural form of laborite.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- laminates — Plural form of laminate.
- laminitis — inflammation of sensitive laminae in the hoof of a horse, caused by stressful events, as trauma, infection, or parturition.
- lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
- 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.
- lantastic — (networking, product) A trademarked name for numerous products of Artisoft, Inc..
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- lassitude — weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor.
- last mile — the distance walked by a condemned person from his or her cell to the place of execution.
- lastingly — continuing or enduring a long time; permanent; durable: a lasting friendship.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.