9-letter words containing w, e, r, l
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- landowner — an owner or proprietor of land.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- lawgivers — Plural form of lawgiver.
- lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
- lawmonger — an inferior lawyer
- lawnmower — a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.
- lawyering — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- leewardly — (of a ship) tending to fall to leeward
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- legwarmer — a footless, stockinglike knitted covering for the leg, usually worn over tights, trousers, boots, etc., for warmth, as in a dance class or while exercising, or as a fashion accessory.
- lifeworld — All the immediate experiences, activities, and contacts that make up the world of an individual or corporate life.
- limewater — an aqueous solution of slaked lime, used in medicine, antacids, and lotions, and to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
- litz wire — a wire used as a conductor of alternating current, composed of a number of insulated strands woven together to reduce skin effect.
- live wire — an energetic, keenly alert person.
- 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.
- livewires — Plural form of livewire.
- lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
- low rider — an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.
- low water — water at its lowest level, as in a river.
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- low-power — (of a radio station) having the power to broadcast to a radius of only 10 to 15 miles (16 to 24 km).
- lower jaw — the mandible or lower part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. In higher vertebrates the lower jaw is fused to the cranium and the upper jaw
- lower leg — the lower part of your leg between your ankle and your knee
- lower set — (mathematics) A finite non-empty downward closed subset of a partial order.
- 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.
- lowermost — lowest1 .
- lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
- lug screw — a small screw without a head
- malware's — software intended to damage a computer, mobile device, computer system, or computer network, or to take partial control over its operation: tips on finding and removing viruses, spyware, and other malware.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- mealworms — Plural form of mealworm.
- meltwater — water from melted snow or ice.
- metalware — work of metal, especially utensils, flatware, etc.
- metalwork — objects made of metal.
- navelwort — a European plant, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, round leaves and yellowish-green flowers.
- new world — Western Hemisphere (def 1).
- newsgirls — Plural form of newsgirl.
- newsreels — Plural form of newsreel.
- nonlawyer — a person who is not a lawyer
- orwellian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
- overblown — (of a flower) past the stage of full bloom; more than full-blown: an overblown rose.
- overflown — to fly over a particular territory, country, etc.: The plane approached the border but never overflew.
- overswell — to overflow
- overwhelm — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.