9-letter words starting with l
- lace into — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lace stay — that part of an Oxford shoe into which eyelets and laces are inserted.
- lace-fern — a small, tufted fern, Cheilanthes gracillima, having dark-brown stalks and fronds about 4 inches (10.2 cm) long.
- lacemaker — A person who makes lace.
- lacerated — lacerated.
- lacerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lacerate.
- lacertian — of or relating to lizards, or like a lizard
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacertine — belonging or relating to a lacertid
- lacewings — Plural form of lacewing.
- lachrymal — of or relating to tears.
- lacinias' — Botany. a jagged or irregular part of a leaf or petal.
- laciniate — cut into narrow, irregular lobes; slashed; jagged.
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- laconical — laconic.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- laconisms — Plural form of laconism.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lacquerer — One who lacquers.
- lacrimary — of or relating to tears or the lacrimal glands
- lacrimoso — sad or mournful
- lactarian — lactovegetarian (def 1).
- lactating — to produce milk.
- lactation — the secretion or formation of milk.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- lactylate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of a lactylic acid.
- laddering — Present participle of ladder.
- ladderman — a firefighter who is a member of a hook-and-ladder company.
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- ladislaus — Saint, c1040–95, king of Hungary 1077–95.
- ladle out — If you ladle out something such as money, information, or advice, you give it freely and in large quantities.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- lady palm — any of several palms of the genus Rhapis, native to southeastern Asia and cultivated as houseplants.
- ladybirds — Plural form of ladybird.
- ladyloves — Plural form of ladylove.
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- laevulose — (carbohydrate) alternative spelling of levulose (fructose).
- lafayette — Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier [ma-ree zhaw-zef pawl eev rawk zheel-ber dy maw-tyey] /maˈri ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl iv rɔk ʒilˈbɛr dü mɔˈtyeɪ/ (Show IPA), Marquis de. Also, La Fayette. 1757–1834, French soldier, statesman, and liberal leader, who served in the American Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and took a leading part in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830.
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- lager top — a pint or half-pint of lager with a dash of lemonade
- lagerfeld — Karl (Otto). born 1938, German fashion designer working mainly in Paris
- laggardly — in the manner of a laggard.
- laggingly — in a lagging manner
- lagniappe — Chiefly Southern Louisiana and Southeast Texas. a small gift given with a purchase to a customer, by way of compliment or for good measure; bonus.
- lagomorph — any member of the order Lagomorpha, comprising the hares, rabbits, and pikas, resembling the rodents but having two pairs of upper incisors.
- laicizing — Present participle of laicize.