9-Letter Words Starting with L

Laager

LABEL to attach a tag to

Bottling-plant machines

Calling leg ball in play (wordplay)

Putting an identifying mark on

Putting identifying slips on

To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

Churchill's opposition

Members of a certain political party.

Members of Attlee's party.

Manual workers

Workers

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

Fringed, as petals.

Jagged, as a leaf

Fringed

Lacker

Lackey

(Of hair) sprayed to keep in place

Queer Carl became a varnisher

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

Lacquey

Lacrosse

Heather, full of terrible dread, is running

Ladleful

The Parisienne upset Yves' old flames

Sweethearts.

Laetrile

Trifling gifts, in New Orleans variable

Trifling gifts, in New Orleans Var.

A sack of candy, maybe

Small gift strangely appealing

A little gift for the customer.

Laitance

Certain shore area

Summer-cottage site

Buffalo and Toronto.

Fisherman's spot, sometimes

Place for an inland beach

Settings of some getaway cabins

Cabin settings

Belts Adam (anagram)

Censured severely or angrily

Beat the little beast like a Teddy

Calls on the carpet

Excoriates

Thrashes

LAMBENT flickering like a flame

Expert in ornamental fabrics (wordplay)

No genius he

Bozo or dodo

Covered with scales

Weepers.

Complaining of incorrect alignment

Bemoaning faulty alignment

What a hell of a thing a matriarchy would be!

Like most backstage passes

Word for structure of windshield glass

Detail man to work with plates

Mica, shale, and butcher block

Divides into thin layers

Like some building materials

Lamister

Lampers

Mocked, in a way

Skewered, as in a skit

Publicly ridiculed

Trump satirist Sarah Cooper, for example

Parodist performing in Palermo resort

Hit on river, one right for satirist

Sea creature hit police sergeant? He will!

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).""

Car with a folding hood

Early auto style

Small convertible country needs golden permit

Grounded connections (wordplay)

Alternatives to mobile phones

Traditional phone connections

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

Landsman

Dangerously large victory (wordplay)

Terrain picture (wordplay)

Runaway daughter in end is all upset

Reeling out, angles for seafood

It may be eaten roasted

Spiny lobster

Langrage

Langsyne

French Polish (wordplay)

Glossophile's love

Formalised systems of communication

Laniary

Gaunt quality

Male falcons

Lanoline

Revolutionary comrade I saw getting stoned

Pelts with stones

Lapper

Tape larks when camouflaged

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

Bighead's generosity

Size of girl stuffed with green bananas

Great property

Instances of magnanimity

Bountiful gifts.

Liberal gifts.

Somewhat slow (music)

In a fairly slow tempo (>music)

Line to gather unravels quite slowly

""Larkier , larkiest High-spirited; zestful: "It's a very larky Nureyev whom we see a buoyant imp who . . . cavorts in various disguises" (Arlene Croce).""

Larruper

An insecticide designed to kill larval pests.

Relating to the voice box

A yell rang out, coming from the throat

Developing an allergy of the throat

The weariness of girlhood (wordplay)

Not the energy of girlhood, perhaps

The langour of girlhood, perhaps

They're made to go indoors

One jumping on the bandwagon, say

Fashionable sort (wordplay)

Fashionable one (wordplay)

Mediterranean sailing vessels

Psychoanalytic stages

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Eleventh hour revival from the side

Subsequent supporter for 'Sideways'

After aid on the side

Laterite

Of soil produced by the decomposition of rocks

Laterize

Laterize

Latewood

Barbers, at times

Shaving preliminary

A plant duct containing latex.

Latinize

Translates into a certain language.

Regions where cliches start off

Angular distances from the equator.

Yachting positions

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

Adjective for Mr. Peepers.

Incongruous, inviting ridicule

It's hilarious, blowing up a huge ball

Laughter

Launcher

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

Special poets are honoured people

Nobel Prize winners

Nobelists, e.g

Laurel

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

Pendant on a chain

Ornament on a chain

Pendant ornament.

Lavalier

Laveer

Pale purple flowers

Purple flowers

Mint plants.

Laverock

Lavisher

Lavish

Lawgiver

In the wrong way

How a mob acts

Anarchically

Senators, for example

Weighers of bills

They know how to handle bills

Lawyer

They make you #2

They're taken to go

They get you going

Laxness

Layerage

Layering

Church attendees

Non-expert, say

Non-clergy type

No reply as affecting ordinary guy

Pl. lazarettos also lazarets or lazarettes A hospital treating contagious diseases.

Place for keeping stores on a ship

Hospital for infectious diseases

Quarantine facility

Lazulite

Lazurite

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.""