9-letter words starting with l
- lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
- lawmaking — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- lawmonger — an inferior lawyer
- lawnmower — a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.
- lawyering — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- laxnesses — Plural form of laxness.
- lay aside — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- lay it on — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
- layerable — one of several items of clothing worn one on top of the other.
- laymanize — to simplify (technical information) into a form that can be understood by ordinary people
- laypeople — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- lazarette — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
- lazaretto — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
- lazy list — A list which is built using a non-strict constructor. Any head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure. Also known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of values from the output of one function to an input of another. See also Lazy evaluation.
- lazybones — a lazy person.
- lazzarone — One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; beggars.
- lcm chair — Eames chair (def 1).
- 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.