9-Letter Words Starting with L

Couch potato (wordplay)

Person prone to proneness (wordplay)

Idler (colloq.)

LEACH to allow a liquid to percolate

Leachate

Leachy

A shrub (Amorpha canescens) of sandy woodlands and streambanks of the Western U. S. having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; it is thought to indicate the presence of lead ore.Amorpha canescens) of sandy woodlands and streambanks of the Western U. S. having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; it is thought to indicate the presence of lead ore.

English word

Leadwork

Leadwort

Leaflet

Stem protrusion

Slender stem that supports plant's flat green structure

Petiole

Leafworm

Leaguer

Tendency towards verbal slips

Sieve quality

Sievelike quality

Snug, as a roof.

Sealed so as not to allow seepage

Like a good travel mug

Progresses in jumps or stages

Goes over another's head

Flog spare rubbish in vaults

Like good lessons for students

That can be studied when left to get fit

That can be taken in, or left with the listener to catch the French

With erudition

Nearly led astray with erudition (wordplay)

Learning

Property seller's arrangement

Property seller's temp arrangement

What 12 across has to slacken his grip

Not free to rent cargo space on board

Form of property tenure

Ruins, lays waste at any rate

If nothing else

At any rate

If nothing else, most foolish (wordplay)

Most foolish, however (wordplay)

It's the most foolish, anyway

Tanned the opponent (wordplay)

Beaten, though there in first place!

Covered with horsehide

Is Val making the engine rise (wordplay)

Yeast, for one

The type of agent involved in The Rising

Lechayim

Lechery

Living a licentious lifestyle

Lewd clues, set to entrap 3

Rakish sign about singer in front of us

Nothing in Hercules' disposition was lewd

Lecithin

The specimen or element selected as the type of a species when a holotype has not been defined.

Angry moms, at times

Angry dads, at times

Visitors to women's clubs.

Avocation of many authors.

Teaching in a college

Instructing or admonishing

Pivoting keels on the sides of a sailboat

Tenacious

In a wolfish way

Soup ingredients, perhaps

Takeout food (wordplay)

Remains of the cricket match (wordplay)

Legalese

Legalise

Decriminalises

Lawyer's terms

Sticklers among the top people surrounded by members

Members keeping within group of top people? They know the rules

Like gambling in Nevada

""LEGALIZE to make lawful, also LEGALISE""

Legalize

Residences of diplomatic ministers.

Residences of diplomats.

Diplomatic missions

Mythical footary, perhaps (wordplay)

Like a mythical foot (wordplay)

Fabled - green lady (anagram)

""LEGGIN a covering for the leg, also LEGGING""

He was employed in a gory line

Roman soldier

Yearlong travels around Italy for soldier

Lay down the law (wordplay)

Put on an act (wordplay)

Work in a chamber, say

Used a salmon-spear

In a casual way

Garland, without doubt, is comfortable

Sue Reilly for being relaxed

Top drawer vocation for one in Windsor

Recurring musical theme

Theme of fancy tile design

Limit vote (anagram)

Recurring literary theme

Recurring musical phrase

Adjective (-al)

A band of nerve fibres

Summer party drinks

Some citrus drinks

Sidewalk-stand sales

Lemuroid

What some mascara does to lashes

Increases, in a way

Stretches out

Extending further

More protracted

In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.

Lenience

Gently unravel line, gently cutting top

With kid gloves

In an merciful manner

Lenition

Lenitive

Lenticel

English word

LEOTARD a close-fitting garment

LEPIDOTE covered with small scales

A natural family of mammals comprising the hares and rabbits.

Leprosy

""LEPROUS affected with leprosy, also LEPROSE, LEPROTIC""

""A person with a slender, thin, or frail body.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) the first stage of the prophase of meiosis during which the nuclear material becomes resolved into slender single-stranded chromosomes [from lepto- + -tene, from Greek tainia band, filament]""

""Any shrubby or herbaceous plant of the genus Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.""

Shrinking German city Heather goes round

Cutting down on

How a single sen is down in value

Lesson

Deadliness

Fatalness

The garlic (anagram)

The reverse of energetic

Short of energy

Sign makers, for example

Poster painters.

Some signmakers

Calligrapher's activity

It's seen on gilt "Enter" sign

Calligrapher's skill

'Top Ten List' reader

Star seen late at night

Stupid Pet Tricks talk show host

Some college athletes

College athletes.

Students with outstanding character (wordplay)

Leucemia

Cancer of the blood

Type of cancer

Disease in which white blood cells multiply

Leukemia

Leukemic

English word

See white blood cell .

Pl. leukotomies also leucotomies Chiefly British A prefrontal lobotomy.

Levanter

Levant

Levator

"Zeitgeist" U.K. band

Zeitgeist U.K. band

Equalisers

Making flat and smooth

Cutting down - even on fish

Pool table quality

Bought with borrowed money

Exerted influence on

Like some buyouts

Buys on margin, for example

Borrows for a buyout

Certain mechanical effects.

Moby Dick, for example

Moby Dick, e.g

Massive thing lit a haven development

Levigate

Levigate

Levirate

LEVIRATE the custom of marrying the widow of one's brother

Raised volunteers (wordplay)

Did a seance feat

Rose by buoyancy.

Picks oneself up (wordplay)

Helps to get up

Rises and floats in the air.

Levodopa

Levulose

Lewisite

Lewisson

LEXICAL pertaining to the words of a language

Disadvantage or financial obligation

Left one with talent a burden

Debt of 1 Euros on gift

Spirit-ed creations (wordplay)

Blend basil into alcoholic drinks

Martini and gimlet, for example

English word

Libeccio

Libelant

Libelist

Suer for damages

Suitor left in ballet movement

Libellee

Libeller

Libel

Defamatory, in Dover

See evil bullies outside being defamatory

Defamatory

Baron in story meeting magnanimously

Learner I reprimanded and let go

Wild bear I'd let free

Free at last

Learner one harshly scolds and releases

Steals, slangily

Delivers lectures after colleague's third one

Bolivar, for one

Bolivar, for one

Bolivar's epithet

Rights it's wrong to take (wordplay)

Subjects of the Bill of Rights.

Cads take them

Don Juan, for one

Row about French composer, a philanderer

Sensually indulgent person

Having a vital urge

Book keeper (wordplay)

Quieter in a school, maybe

Book overseer (wordplay)

Book stores (wordplay)

Two of the 24 merge with volumes

They house books

Librate

Balancing small party quota

Balancing

Recklessly rob titles for opera books

Gilbert works

Operatic texts

""Having the form of liber, or resembling liber.""

Licencee

Licencer

Licence

Royalty payers, say

They're permitted (wordplay)

Software users, often

Licenser

Such laws restrict service opportunities for landlords

Licensor

Certification for professional practice

Lichen

Lichenin

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens.""

Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.

Lickspit

Dried-root candies

Local Cockney actor poolside

Powerful local anaesthetic

Cover charged by month can sap

Most vital element

Vital force

They're only out for your savings

Ship's equipment.

They rescue people

One of the Beach Boys (wordplay)

Bank magazine-rack overseer (wordplay)

GARFIELD + U = Beach V.I.P

Palmist's concern.

Items in palmistry.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire options

Mae West perhaps flies around state

Candy with a hole in the middle

An opportune rescuer.

Existing fashion (wordplay)

It may be Spartan

You get used to it

They last till the last of us

That's all we have for a living

Spans of three-score years and ten.

Lifework

Liftgate

Tissues that may be torn

Bands of connective tissue

Tissues that connect bones

Ligation

Ligature

Cords to tie blood vessels

Surgical ties for blood vessels

Musical slurs suit Elgar possibly

Bright idea symbol

Source of illumination

Shining example of current usage

Reduced the weight

Took a load off awfully thin ledge

Being illuminated, he tingled with excitement

Summer hair product

Lighter

""A typeface or font of characters having relatively thin, light lines.""

English word

Lighting

Destitute of light; dark.

Kundera's was insufferable

Lack of weight

Less night where there's absence of weight

Flashy sort of striker (wordplay)

Flashy sort of striker

Franklin's aid

Beacon-bearing boat

Beacon vessel at sea

Pilot's warning device.

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright.

""Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.""

Lignify

Lignify

Ligroine

Most credible

Standard monetary unit of Swaziland

Swaziland's monetary unit

Lilliput

LILTING lilt

Limber

Doing calisthenics (with "up").

Warming up for exercise

Furnaces for reducing calcium carbonate

Green illumination (wordplay)

Radiation that reaches a star (wordplay)

Center of interest

Five-line verses

Five-lined verses

"A flea in a fly in a flue," and others.

A mineral prepared from fruit (sound)

Luray Caverns material

Tie lemons up in sedimentary rock

Fruit juice? Clear colourless solution

Tartish drink

Tannery solution

Subject to checks and balances

With limitation.

Very large, extensive

nfinit (wordplay)

Like outer space.

Study of lakes and ponds

Limonene

Limonite

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

Long way to go (wordplay)

Long ride (wordplay)

A way to go by

Translucence

Limpsey

Limuloid