9-letter words containing el
- reliction — the process by which water recedes over time, changing the waterline and leaving land permanently exposed
- relieving — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- religieux — religious; devout; pious.
- religiose — characterized by religiosity.
- religioso — a musical piece meant to be played devotionally
- religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- reliquary — a repository or receptacle for relics.
- reliquefy — to liquefy again
- reliquiae — remains, as those of fossil organisms.
- relishing — liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
- reloading — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- relocatee — someone who is relocated or moved to a new location
- relocator — a program designed to transfer files from one computer to another
- reluctant — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- reluctate — to show reluctance.
- remodeled — to model again.
- repellant — causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
- repellent — causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
- repelling — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- rerelease — to release again: Some popular films are rereleased every few years.
- retelling — a new, and often updated or retranslated, version of a story.
- reticella — a form of lace popular from the 15th to the 17th centuries
- revelator — a person who makes a revelation.
- revelling — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- revelries — reveling; boisterous festivity: Their revelry could be heard across the river.
- revelrous — of or relating to revelry
- reversely — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
- rhineland — that part of Germany W of the Rhine.
- ricefield — a field where rice is grown
- richelieu — Armand Jean du Plessis [ar-mahn zhahn dy ple-see] /arˈmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dü plɛˈsi/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1585–1642, French cardinal and statesman.
- richfield — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- ridgeline — a line formed along the highest points of a mountain ridge.
- ridgeling — any male animal, especially a colt, with undescended testicles.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- romeldale — a breed of sheep characterized by high-quality and multicoloured fleece
- roosevelt — (Anna) Eleanor, 1884–1962, U.S. diplomat, author, and lecturer (wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt).
- rostellum — Biology. any small, beaklike process.
- roundelay — a song in which a phrase, line, or the like, is continually repeated.
- roundheel — an eagerly immoral woman
- routinely — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rubellite — a deep-red variety of tourmaline, used as a gem.
- rubicelle — a variety of the mineral spinel that is orange or yellow in colour
- rust belt — the heavily industrial area of the northeastern U.S. containing the older industries and factories.
- sabellian — a member of a group of early Italian peoples including the Samnites and Sabines.
- sabrelike — resembling a sabre
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- salt well — a well from which brine is obtained.
- samuelson — Paul A(nthony) 1915–2009, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1970.
- satellite — Astronomy. a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon.
- satelloid — a low-altitude satellite using engines with small thrust to maintain its orbit.