9-letter words starting with le
- leavenous — containing leaven
- lebkuchen — a hard, chewy or brittle Christmas cookie, usually flavored with honey and spices and containing nuts and citron.
- lechering — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lectorate — a lecturer in a college or university.
- lectotype — a specimen designated as the type of a species or subspecies when no holotype was designated by the original author of the name.
- lecturers — Plural form of lecturer.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- ledbetter — Huddie [huhd-ee] /ˈhʌd i/ (Show IPA), ("Leadbelly") 1885?–1949, U.S. folk singer.
- lederberg — Joshua, 1925–2008, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
- ledgement — (architecture) Alternative form of ledgment.
- lee gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- lee shore — a shore toward which the wind blows.
- leeboards — Plural form of leeboard.
- leechlike — Resembling a leech or some aspect of one; clinging, parasitic.
- leeriness — wary; suspicious (usually followed by of): I'm leery of his financial advice.
- leeringly — In a leering manner.
- leetspeak — a coded spelling system and language used in very informal communications on the Internet, featuring letters combined with numbers or special characters in place of letters that they may resemble, and including inventive misspellings, jargon, and slang.
- leewardly — (of a ship) tending to fall to leeward
- left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
- left bank — a part of Paris, France, on the S bank of the Seine: frequented by artists, writers, and students.
- left half — a defensive player who plays midfield, on the left side of the pitch
- left join — outer join
- left over — remaining
- left wing — members of a liberal or radical political party, or those favoring extensive political reform.
- left-face — a 90° turn to the left, especially as a marching command.
- left-hand — on or to the left: a left-hand turn at the intersection.
- left-laid — noting a rope, strand, etc., laid in a left-handed, or counterclockwise, direction as one looks away along it (opposed to right-laid).
- left-wing — members of a liberal or radical political party, or those favoring extensive political reform.
- leftenant — Archaic form of lieutenant.
- leftfield — From out of left field; off-the-wall.
- leftovers — Plural form of leftover.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- leg break — a ball deviating to the off side from the leg side when bowled.
- leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
- leg-break — a ball deviating to the off side from the leg side when bowled.
- legal age — the age at which a person acquires full legal rights and responsibilities, such as the right to make contracts and deeds.
- legal aid — free legal service to persons unable to pay for a lawyer.
- legal cap — ruled writing paper in tablet form, measuring approximately 8½ × 13 to 14 inches (22 × 33 to 36 cm).
- legal pad — a ruled writing tablet, usually yellow and measuring 8½ × 14 inches (22 × 36 cm).
- legalised — to make legal; authorize.
- legalisms — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- legalized — Simple past tense and past participle of legalize.
- legalizer — That which makes legal.
- legalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of legalize.
- legalness — The state of being legal, the property of being within the law.
- legations — Plural form of legation.
- legendary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legendist — a person who writes or compiles legends.
- legendize — to make a legend of: Devoted followers legendized his honesty.