9-letter words starting with ly
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- lycopolis — the Ancient Greek name for Asyut
- lycopsids — Plural form of lycopsid.
- lygus bug — any of a genus (Lygus, family Miridae) of hemipterous bugs, including many that damage plants
- lyke-wake — a watch held over a dead person, often with festivities
- lymington — a market town in S England, in SW Hampshire, on the Solent: yachting centre and holiday resort. Pop: 14 227 (2001)
- lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- lymphitis — (archaic) lymphadenopathy.
- lymphomas — Plural form of lymphoma.
- lynch law — the administration of summary punishment, especially death, upon a suspected, accused, or convicted person by a mob acting without legal process or authority.
- lynch mob — A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
- lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
- lynchings — Plural form of lynching.
- lynchpins — Plural form of lynchpin.
- lyndhurst — a township in NE New Jersey.
- lynnfield — a town in NE Massachusetts.
- lynx-eyed — sharp-sighted.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyomerous — of or relating to Lyomeri fish
- lyon bean — a vine, Mucuna niveum, of southern Asia and the Philippines, having showy clusters of white flowers and whitish hairy pods, grown widely as a forage crop.
- lyonnaise — (of food, especially fried potatoes) cooked with pieces of onion.
- lyonnesse — the mythical region where Sir Tristram was born, located near Cornwall in SW England and supposed to have been submerged by the sea.
- lyophiled — (of blood, serum, tissue, etc) freeze-dried
- lyophilic — noting a colloid the particles of which have a strong affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyophobic — noting a colloid the particles of which have little or no affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- lyra viol — a lutelike musical instrument popular in the 16th and 17th centuries: the forerunner of the mandolin
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- lyrebirds — Plural form of lyrebird.
- lyrically — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- lyricised — to write lyrics.
- lyricists — Plural form of lyricist.
- lysimeter — an instrument for determining the amount of water-soluble matter in soil.
- lysocline — the depth of the ocean at which the solubility of calcium carbonate increases substantially.
- lysogenic — harboring a temperate virus as a prophage or plasmid.
- lysosomal — Of, pertaining to, or originating in lysosomes.
- lysosomes — a cell organelle containing enzymes that digest particles and that disintegrate the cell after its death.
- lysozymes — Plural form of lysozyme.
- lytically — in a lytic manner or involving a lytic phage
- lyttelton — Humphrey. 1921–2008, British jazz trumpeter and band leader who influenced the British revival of New Orleans jazz
- lyubertsy — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Moscow.
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