9-letter words containing t, r, o, i, l
- latrociny — banditry
- lattimore — Richmond Alexander, 1906–84, U.S. poet, translator, and critic, born in China.
- lentiform — lenticular.
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- liberator — a four-engined heavy bomber widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. Symbol: B-24.
- libration — a real or apparent oscillatory motion, especially of the moon.
- libratory — oscillatory.
- librettos — Plural form of libretto.
- lictorian — of or relating to a lictor
- linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- lipotropy — the process of breaking down excess fat in the human body
- literator — littérateur.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- litigator — a courtroom lawyer.
- littorals — Plural form of littoral.
- liver-rot — a disease chiefly of sheep and cattle, characterized by sluggishness, weight loss, and local damage to the liver, caused by infection from the liver fluke.
- liverwort — any mosslike plant of the class Hepaticae, growing chiefly on damp ground, rocks, or on tree trunks and helping the decay of logs and the disintegration of rocks.
- logarithm — the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log: 2 is the logarithm of 100 to the base 10 (2 = log10 100).
- loitering — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
- longtimer — One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- lorikeets — Plural form of lorikeet.
- lothair i — a.d. 795?–855, king of Germany 840–843; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 840–855 (son of Louis I).
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- lotteries — Plural form of lottery.
- louvertie — a female given name.
- lustrious — Fantastic; amazing; splendid.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- meliorate — (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
- meliorist — A proponent of meliorism.
- meliority — superiority.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- microlite — any microscopic crystal.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- microvolt — a unit of electromotive force or potential difference equal to one millionth of a volt. Symbol: μV, μ v.
- milkworts — Plural form of milkwort.
- millocrat — a member of a government or ruling class of mill owners
- milometer — An odometer graduated in miles.
- montclair — a city in NE New Jersey.
- montreuil — a suburb of Paris, in N France.
- moralists — Plural form of moralist.
- mortalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of mortalize.
- mortality — the state or condition of being subject to death; mortal character, nature, or existence.
- mortalize — (transitive) To make mortal.
- motor oil — oil for engine lubrication
- multicore — (computer hardware, of a processor) Combining two or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit.