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

Pivoting keels on the sides of a sailboat

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)

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

Adjective (-al)

Summer party drinks

Some citrus drinks

Sidewalk-stand sales

LEOTARD a close-fitting garment

A natural family of mammals comprising the hares and rabbits.

""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.""

Deadliness

Fatalness

The garlic (anagram)

The reverse of energetic

Short of energy

'Top Ten List' reader

Star seen late at night

Stupid Pet Tricks talk show host

Leucemia

Cancer of the blood

Type of cancer

Disease in which white blood cells multiply

Leukemia

Levanter

Levant

Levator

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

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

Libelant

Suer for damages

Suitor left in ballet movement

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

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

Local Cockney actor poolside

Powerful local anaesthetic

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

Mae West perhaps flies around state

Candy with a hole in the middle

An opportune rescuer.

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

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

English word

Standard monetary unit of Swaziland

Swaziland's monetary unit

Fruit juice? Clear colourless solution

Tartish drink

Tannery solution

Subject to checks and balances

Linalool

The quality of being linea<?/.

An outline of the face.

Part of mug's tin and enamel cracked

(Facial) feature

Get into a row and rebel after treatment of alien

With frightful lies around, I mean to get into a row

LINEAR resembling a straight line

Make straight

Delineation; a line or lines.

LINGUAL a sound articulated with the tongue

A salt of linoleic acid.

LIPOSOME a microscopic globule composed of lipids

Liquate

""The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.""

Convert (assets) into cash

Convert to cash

Kill dead, accepting one pound

Time honoured county town (wordplay)

Really on fire and really worried!

Being exactly as stated

Readers, for example

Readers and writers.

They're well-informed

How accurate copies are made

Letter for letter

Letter-for-letter

Book reviewer

Critic.

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; chiefly used in the plural. plural.

Litharge

Lithemia

LITHIAS lithia

""The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.""

Like libel, say

Worth suing over

It's possibly a suit likely to dress fool up

Persons engaged in lawsuits.

Parties to a lawsuit

Do they go to law for the gilt saint (wordplay)

Pressed one's suit (wordplay)

Pressed a suit

Took legal action

Contests at the bar (wordplay)

Files a suit against

Engages in legal proceedings

Law-practicing reptile (wordplay)

One in legal dispute

One in a court battle.

Auto adjunct

Glad item

Coastal regions.

Guy covered with foie gras (wordplay)

Member of a City Company

Predecessor of a chauffeur.

Livetrap

""To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.""

Loadstar

A stack of rock is magnetic

Magnetite possessing polarity.

It attracts lots to Tyneside

Zeitgeist and "umami," linguistically

Karaoke and smorgasbord, linguistically speaking

Weltschmerz and schadenfreude, for example

Hail an object's dislikes (wordplay)

Disinclination

Can't like revolting

A hole most dreadfully repulsive

Liberal profanity a few find offensive

Lobation

""Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.as, a lobulated gland.""

Old Celia's moving around in a restricted area

Restricted diet instead missing even elements

Boozer on other side limited to one place

Localise

Localism

Localist

Localite

Confined to one area

Localize

Readily found

See small particles in positions

Film credits list

Places, sites

They indicate places where Clovis ate, perhaps

Guides for ancient mariners.

Navigational reference points

Sources of inspiration

Verse ()

Slide-rule number

In math, it may be common or natural

Slide rule's basis

Using reason

Following reason

Close to home occupied by soldier with good reason

Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, for example

Type of statistical distribution

Logogram

Programmer's graphic symbol (wordplay)

Sign of trademark diagram

Logomach

An argument about words.

Dispute concerning words

Leave Mum in lake and start your verbal sparring

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

Drags one's feet

Dawdles

Huey's craft

Vessels on vessels

Classical music fans

Classical musicians Slang.

Classical musicians: Slang.

Longhand

Longhead

Cause of high telephone bills.

Talkativeness

Prolixity.

Loricate

Whistle-blowers (wordplay)

Stage door johnnies.

Gay rakes

Layabouts' dream country

Idyllic spot

Left to love and lust outrageously in this bed of roses

Lowball

Small, UNLIKE THIS!

Some letters perhaps from minor lawsuit

Drop the bag ... not like THAT!

High living is not for him

Scot who touched down in the valley (wordplay)

Flat dweller

A lowly state.

Loyalism

Nonrevolutionaries

Stalwarts

Not, perhaps, 15 down sort of neckwear

Ties alloy into allegiances

Oil from car black until changed

It helps get the wheels turning

It may keep things moving

Oil (a mechanism)

Apply oil/grease

Smooth Blair cut apart by English

Revictual (anagram)

Rewarding development of vital cure

Vertical upstart could be moneymaking

Lullaby

Strains to get to sleep (wordplay)

Soothing songs for babies

They're crooned near cradles

Awful mumbler - a northern feller

Paul Bunyan's calling.

Paul Bunyan, for example

English word

Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina

""A votive candle set into a small, decorative paper bag weighted with sand and placed in a row with others along a walkway, driveway, or rooftop as a holiday decoration. Also called regionally farolito .""

Supposed inhabitants of the moon

Lunation

Ecliptic period of Julian calendar.

Concerning both the moon and sun's motions

Like the Hebrew calendar, but not the Islamic

Lunkhead

Lustrate

Lustrate

Lutanist

Luxation

Profuse in growth

(Of hair) thick and healthy

Long shift female ignored, working in a rut

Enjoy greatly, to excess perhaps

Enjoy to excess

Revel in indulgence

Pity Hal with the MC for a gland

Lymphoma

Like a cat's oniony dish (wordplay)

Like a cat's oniony dish?

Kind of potatoes for simba

In an enthusiastic or effusive way

Lily and Carly are dancing in an expressive way

How Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote ballads

LYSOSOME a saclike part of a cell

LYTIC pertaining to {lysis=n}