9-Letter Words Starting with L

A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

Cut material had value

Lear acted badly hurt

Injured by tearing

Cuts (flesh) roughly

Spike tears dreadfully

Ale crates smashed causing tears

Lacertid

Cousins of ant lions

Neuropteran insects

Delicate insects

Lacewood

Lacework

Of tears or weeping

Charm ally with tears

'E's out to leach rye meal of drops

Fringed, as petals.

Jagged, as a leaf

Fringed

Lacker

Lackey

Laconism

(Of hair) sprayed to keep in place

Queer Carl became a varnisher

One putting on coat presents a pound bill: odd? About right

Lacquey

Lacrimal

Lacrosse

Reportedly have no money invested in label producing baby food

Dairy process

Play at this in the dairy with a lion around

Sounds as if one might lack this to a tin of milk

Lacunar

Laicise

Laicize

Laitance

Light colour for soot (wordplay)

Soot used as a pigment

Powdery form of carbon

Primitive marine organisms

""A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonase\'91). Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonase\'91).""

Inventor Edwin's cloak (or painting)

Plant trees and shrubs, say

Prospect of unbridled lap dances!

Larcener

Petty thefts

Thefts

One taking clarinets off

Thief dressed in scarlet

Brigand or burglar

A close run, maybe, for kleptomaniac

Related to theft

Light-fingered clue, arson suspected

An insecticide designed to kill larval pests.

They're made to go indoors

One jumping on the bandwagon, say

Fashionable sort (wordplay)

Fashionable one (wordplay)

Psychoanalytic stages

Of soil produced by the decomposition of rocks

A plant duct containing latex.

LATOSOL a tropical soil

Lattice

Launcher

Pushing the boat out (wordplay)

Sending off (a rocket)

Firing one that's eating out

Discovery zone (wordplay)

Structure on which a rocket sits

Cape Canaveral sight

Laverock

LEACH to allow a liquid to percolate

Leachate

Leachy

English word

Property seller's arrangement

Property seller's temp arrangement

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

Tenacious

Adjective (-al)

A band of nerve fibres

Lenience

Lenticel

English word

The garlic (anagram)

The reverse of energetic

Short of energy

Leucemia

Leukemic

See white blood cell .

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

LEXICAL pertaining to the words of a language

English word

Libeccio

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

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

Five-line verses

Five-lined verses

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

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

They secure wheels on axles

Vital components

Vital entities

Linstock

Lipocyte

Pl. lipolyses (-s z ) The hydrolysis of lipids.

Cosmetics-counter array

Tubes in purses

Basic cosmetics.

Say Scotch on the rocks is sweet

Sweet drink on the rocks (wordplay)

Pontefract cake ingredient

Study of rights in speech

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

Surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (such as the lung or brain).

Scumbag eating zero degree stew

Stew of meat, vegetables and hardtack

A stew formerly eaten by sailors

Lobstick

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

Lockbox

Lockdown

Fable about smoked salmon (wordplay)

Hair stylist's other job (wordplay)

Keystone ring wearer (wordplay)

Lockstep

Anti-Tammany reformers of 1835.

Match-lighting party of 1835

Friction matches

Moved, jocularly

Locomote

Relating to power of moving mad vehicle!

Relating to shifts of temperature in unusually cool room

Plants that make cattle crazy

Problematic plants for ranchers

Plants that produce the intoxicant swainsonine

Locution

Lodicule

Verse ()

Using reason

Following reason

Close to home occupied by soldier with good reason

Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, for example

Logicise

Logicise

Logicize

Logicize

Task of movement and supply of troops

Science of moving troops.

How-to-get-it-done science

Logomach

An argument about words.

Dispute concerning words

Leave Mum in lake and start your verbal sparring

Perhaps ageless ethnological weave

Minimum clothing (wordplay)

Fig leaf successor (wordplay)

Beetle with a lengthy narrow body

Lopstick

Cause of high telephone bills.

Talkativeness

Prolixity.

Loricate

Romantic keepsakes of old

'Flowing hair', as the canal flight fan said (wordplay)

'Mud in your eye' coming up without a lot of speed for old dandy's curls

Small, UNLIKE THIS!

Some letters perhaps from minor lawsuit

Drop the bag ... not like THAT!

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

""Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. as, the lubricity of oil.""

Lubric.

Lucency

The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

""Any of several substances found in luminescent organisms (such as the firefly, Photinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferinPhotinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferin""

Fortunate quality, having courage when powerless

Revictual (anagram)

Rewarding development of vital cure

Vertical upstart could be moneymaking

Somewhat ridiculous (ditto without one?)

Absurd or farcical

Curd Louis prepared was laughable

Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina

Shine

Glow

Formal midday meals

They take ages at last, of course

Society affairs

Home of counterculture (wordplay)

School's cafeteria

Where students meet to eat

One for when a meal is needed (wordplay)

Inlet much improved by midday (wordplay)

When midday meal is eaten

Lutecium

Lychnis

Lycopene

Pity Hal with the MC for a gland

Lynching

Buttons with the director of "Blue Velvet" on them (wordplay)

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

LYOPHOBE not readily dispersed

In an enthusiastic or effusive way

Lily and Carly are dancing in an expressive way

How Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote ballads

Lyricise

Lyricise

Lyricism

Important people on Broadway.

Hart and Hammerstein

Songwriters call up securing one in charts

Lyricize

Lyricize

Harboring a temperate virus

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