9-letter words starting with le
- le cateau — a town in NE France: site (August 26, 1914) of the largest British battle since Waterloo, which led to the disruption of the German attack on the Allies. Pop: 6998 (2009)
- leachable — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leachates — Plural form of leachate.
- lead foot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- lead line — a line by which a lead is lowered into the water to take soundings: in deep-sea practice, divided into levels one fathom apart, variously treated as marks and deeps.
- lead pipe — a pipe made of lead
- lead shot — small round pellets of lead, used in cartridges
- lead time — the period of time between the initial phase of a process and the emergence of results, as between the planning and completed manufacture of a product.
- lead tree — any of several tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Leucaena, of the legume family, especially L. glauca, having pinnate leaves and white flowers.
- lead-foot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- lead-free — unleaded.
- leadbelly — Huddie [huhd-ee] /ˈhʌd i/ (Show IPA), ("Leadbelly") 1885?–1949, U.S. folk singer.
- leaderene — a female leader, esp one who is strong and formidable
- leadplant — a North American shrub, Amorpha canescens, of the legume family, the leaves and twigs of which have a gray cast.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- leadville — a town in central Colorado: historic mining boom town.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- leaf lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leaf mold — a compost or layer of soil consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
- leaf roll — a viral disease of plants, especially potatoes, characterized by upward rolling of the leaflets, chlorosis, stunting, and necrosis of the phloem.
- leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
- leaf scar — the mark left on a stem or twig after a leaf falls.
- leaf site — A machine that merely originates and reads Usenet news or mail, and does not relay any third-party traffic. Often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites gets too high, the network tends to develop bottlenecks. Compare backbone site, rib site.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- leaf-lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- leafiness — The state or condition of being leafy.
- leafleted — Simple past tense and past participle of leaflet.
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- leaguered — to besiege.
- leakiness — The property of being leaky.
- leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
- lean-burn — (esp of an internal-combustion engine) designed to use a lean mixture of fuel and air in order to reduce petrol consumption and exhaust emissions
- leap year — (in the Gregorian calendar) a year that contains 366 days, with February 29 as an additional day: occurring in years whose last two digits are evenly divisible by four, except for centenary years not divisible by 400.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- learnable — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
- learnedly — In an educated and knowledgable manner.
- learnings — knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
- lease rod — a rod or bar between the whip roll and the harness on a loom for keeping the warp in place.
- leaseback — the disposal of a building, land, or other property to a buyer under special arrangements for simultaneously leasing it on a long-term basis to the original seller, usually with an option to renew the lease.
- leasehold — property acquired under a lease.
- leash law — a local ordinance requiring that dogs be leashed when not on their owners' property.
- leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
- leastwise — at least; at any rate.
- leathered — Simple past tense and past participle of leather.
- leave off — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leaveless — (obsolete) leafless.
- leavening — a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
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