9-letter words that end in re
- homospore — (botany) any plant producing spores of the same size and type.
- houseware — Homeware.
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hydrosere — a sere originating in water.
- hyperpure — extremely pure or completely uncontaminated
- hyperware — (hypertext) Software that implements or uses hypertext.
- immixture — the act of immixing.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- in future — from now on; henceforth
- inclosure — enclosure.
- inculture — (obsolete) Lack or neglect of cultivation or culture.
- indenture — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- insincere — not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
- interfere — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
- intermure — to wall in
- investure — (obsolete) To clothe; to invest.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- ipso jure — by the law itself; by operation of law.
- jane eyre — a novel (1847) by Charlotte Brontë.
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- jobcentre — Alternative spelling of Jobcentre.
- jonquiere — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- jump wire — jumper1 (def 6).
- kilolitre — a unit of volume, equal to 1000 liters; a cubic meter. Abbreviation: kl.
- kilometre — a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.
- kol nidre — a liturgical prayer for recitation at the beginning of the service on the eve of Yom Kippur asking that all unfulfilled vows to God be nullified and all transgressions forgiven.
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- lake eyre — a shallow salt lake or salt flat in NE central South Australia, about 11 m (35 ft) below sea level, divided into two areas (North and South); it usually contains little or no water. Maximum area: 9600 sq km (3700 sq miles)
- lake-eyre — Lake, a shallow salt lake in S South Australia. 3430 sq. mi. (8885 sq. km).
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lattimore — Richmond Alexander, 1906–84, U.S. poet, translator, and critic, born in China.
- lavaliere — an ornamental pendant, usually jeweled, worn on a chain around the neck.
- lee shore — a shore toward which the wind blows.
- lehrjahre — an apprenticeship
- licensure — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- life-care — designed to provide for the basic needs of elderly residents, usually in return for an initial fee and monthly service payments: a life-care facility; life-care communities.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- 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.
- livermore — a city in W California.
- longshore — existing, found, or employed along the shore, especially at or near a seaport: longshore jobs; longshore current.
- look here — used when raising an objection
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- macromere — one of the large blastomeres that form toward the vegetal pole in embryos undergoing unequal cleavage.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- madrepore — any true or stony coral of the order Madreporaria, forming reefs or islands in tropical seas.
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- maneouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.