9-letter words containing t, e, a, c
- le cateau — a town in NE France: site (August 26, 1914) of the largest British battle since Waterloo, which led to the disruption of the German attack on the Allies. Pop: 6998 (2009)
- leachates — Plural form of leachate.
- lectorate — a lecturer in a college or university.
- left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
- left-face — a 90° turn to the left, especially as a marching command.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- levitical — of or relating to the Levites.
- lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.
- lift cage — the box of a lift, in the form of an open framework
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- locatelli — Pietro [pee-ey-troh;; Italian pye-traw] /piˈeɪ troʊ;; Italian ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1695–1764, Italian violinist and composer.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- locellate — split into secondary cells
- lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
- loculated — Locular.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- macerated — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- macerates — Plural form of macerate.
- macerator — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- machinate — Engage in plots and intrigues; scheme.
- machmeter — a device that indicates airspeed relative to the speed of sound.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- magnetics — the science of magnetism.
- maieutics — the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
- majestick — Archaic spelling of majestic.
- malachite — a green mineral, basic copper carbonate, Cu 2 CO 3 (OH) 2 , an ore of copper, used for making ornamental articles.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- maleffect — an undesirable effect
- manchette — armpad.
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- mast cell — a large granular cell, common in connective tissue, that produces heparin, histamine, and serotonin.
- masticate — Chew (food).
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- matchable — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.