9-Letter Words Starting with L

Labdanum

Black-coated retrievers

Did they fetch the game from Canada (wordplay)

Cut material had value

Lear acted badly hurt

Injured by tearing

Lacertid

Lacewood

(Of hair) sprayed to keep in place

Lacquey

Heather, full of terrible dread, is running

Ladleful

Hens, perhaps, spotted beetles

Perhaps hens with spots might be 1 down

Red hens with spots (wordplay)

Ladyhood

The Parisienne upset Yves' old flames

Sweethearts.

Indoor plants popular in waiting rooms

Ladyship

""LAGGARD one who lags, also LAGGER""

Settings of some getaway cabins

Cabin settings

Belts Adam (anagram)

Censured severely or angrily

Beat the little beast like a Teddy

Like most backstage passes

Word for structure of windshield glass

Detail man to work with plates

Mocked, in a way

Skewered, as in a skit

Publicly ridiculed

Lampyrid

""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).""

Car with a folding hood

Early auto style

Small convertible country needs golden permit

Ships' approaches to shores.

Some sightings

Dignified dumps

Geographical features ... or what the circled squares in this puzzle represent

Geographical features ... or what the shaded squares in this puzzle represent

Geographical features... or what the circled squares in this puzzle represent

Territory-expanding ploys

Territory-expanding moves

Unfair property seizures

Grounded connections (wordplay)

Alternatives to mobile phones

Traditional phone connections

Super bosses (wordplay)

Bogie men of housing shortage.

Some men of property

Alamo and Faneuil Hall, for example

Prominent objects in a landscape

Historical buildings, for example

Possessor of real estate

Squire left one bad news

One with much property

Inventor Edwin's cloak (or painting)

Plant trees and shrubs, say

Prospect of unbridled lap dances!

Landside

Lots of scenery - different kinds under wraps

Landsman

Dangerously large victory (wordplay)

Terrain picture (wordplay)

Runaway daughter in end is all upset

Landslip

In a weak or fatigued manner

Lapboard

Revolutionary comrade I saw getting stoned

Pelts with stones

Lapidist

Larboard

An insecticide designed to kill larval pests.

The weariness of girlhood (wordplay)

Not the energy of girlhood, perhaps

The langour of girlhood, perhaps

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Laterize

Latewood

Latinize

Regions where cliches start off

Angular distances from the equator.

Yachting positions

Laudanum

Might P raise this (wordplay)

Praise

Praise be that there's a case at the end of it!

Laudator

Like an ode

Expressing praise and commendation

Full of or giving praise

Discovery zone (wordplay)

Structure on which a rocket sits

Cape Canaveral sight

Cleaned filthy lucre?

Cleaned filthy lucre (wordplay)

Did a household task.

Cleaner (of clothes, linen)

One cleaning up filthy habits

One cleans material turning round less

Garden-party attire?

Garden-party attire (wordplay)

Woman washing clothes

Basement installations

The French gets wet, perhaps, for washing

Under sail perhaps, they may tend to the sheets

Laureate

Given honour and praise, it's right she from France should be embraced

Pale purple flowers

Purple flowers

Mint plants.

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

Leaguer

With erudition

Nearly led astray with erudition (wordplay)

What 12 across has to slacken his grip

Not free to rent cargo space on board

Form of property tenure

Tanned the opponent (wordplay)

Beaten, though there in first place!

Covered with horsehide

Pivoting keels on the sides of a sailboat

Legalise

Like gambling in Nevada

Mythical footary, perhaps (wordplay)

Like a mythical foot (wordplay)

Fabled - green lady (anagram)

Used a salmon-spear

Summer party drinks

Some citrus drinks

Sidewalk-stand sales

Lemuroid

LEOTARD a close-fitting garment

LEPIDOTE covered with small scales

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.""

English word

Bought with borrowed money

Exerted influence on

Like some buyouts

Levigate

Raised volunteers (wordplay)

Did a seance feat

Rose by buoyancy.

Levodopa

Learner I reprimanded and let go

Wild bear I'd let free

Free at last

Having a vital urge

Local Cockney actor poolside

Powerful local anaesthetic

Cover charged by month can sap

Most vital element

Vital force

One of the Beach Boys (wordplay)

Bank magazine-rack overseer (wordplay)

GARFIELD + U = Beach V.I.P

Ligature

Reduced the weight

Took a load off awfully thin ledge

Being illuminated, he tingled with excitement

Lighter

""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

With limitation.

Translucence

Limuloid

Like rock in a volcano or infant's food

Turned to fluid

Convert (assets) into cash

Convert to cash

Kill dead, accepting one pound

State of being fluid.

Available cash

Arachne ultimately got by on 51 Euros in cash

To render liquid.

Liquify

Transformed into stone

Pressed one's suit (wordplay)

Pressed a suit

Took legal action

Red state (wordplay)

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

Lobster

""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

Confined to one area

Lockdown

Moved, jocularly

Plants that make cattle crazy

Problematic plants for ranchers

Plants that produce the intoxicant swainsonine

Guides for ancient mariners.

Navigational reference points

Sources of inspiration

Lake poems with quality must be a magnet

Iron-attracting magnetite

It was used to make the first compass

Porter's room intended, say, for deposit of monies

Doddery old chaps going in to get accommodation

Accommodations

Lodgment

Lodicule

Verse ()

Logicise

Logicize

Engaged in political skulduggery

Swapped political favors

Took part in a lumberjack contest

Longhand

Longhead

Word often paired with latitude

A concern of mariners

Navigator's concern.

Lookdown

Loophole

Lordly

Walk all over novice inside school for the little chiefs

Titled British dignitaries

Noble potencies

Layabouts' dream country

Idyllic spot

Left to love and lust outrageously in this bed of roses

Louden

Loudly

Noisemaker of sorts

Braggart with noisy oral orifice

Ear-splitting yakker

Soaring honeymooners (wordplay)

Small African parrots or romantic couple

Openly affectionate couple

Lowball

High living is not for him

Scot who touched down in the valley (wordplay)

Flat dweller

A lowly state.

Sporty cars with dropped chassis

Customized cars with diminished ground clearance

Cars close to the ground, and a hint to the ends of the starred answers

""Geography a rhumb line or curve on the surface of a sphere intersecting all meridians at the same angle; hence, the course of a ship or aircraft following a constant compass direction. ; loxodromic,""

The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

Somewhat ridiculous (ditto without one?)

Absurd or farcical

Curd Louis prepared was laughable

Lullaby

Lunkhead

Ghastly quality

Ghastly action started lately underwater clear of the headland

State of being lusty; vigor of body.

Lustrate

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

Lyrebird

Lyricise

Lyricize