9-Letter Words Starting with L

""(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

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

Book stores (wordplay)

Two of the 24 merge with volumes

They house books

Recklessly rob titles for opera books

Gilbert works

Operatic texts

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.

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

Ligature

Cords to tie blood vessels

Surgical ties for blood vessels

Musical slurs suit Elgar possibly

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.""

Destitute of light; dark.

Kundera's was insufferable

Lack of weight

Less night where there's absence of weight

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

Lignify

Lignify

Ligroine

Most credible

Standard monetary unit of Swaziland

Swaziland's monetary unit

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.

Limonene

Limonite

Long way to go (wordplay)

Long ride (wordplay)

A way to go by

Limpsey

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.

LINER a commercial ship or aeroplane

Those who wait

Lingerie

Like a stubborn cold

Being slow to leave

Hanging back, tarrying

Linguine

It needs a rubber to put them on

They may be spread in the locker room

Sports doctors' supplies

A salt of linoleic acid.

Linoleum

See Linnet.Linnet.

Mothers with pride (wordplay)

Females with pride (wordplay)

Raisers of cubs

Lioniser

Lionizer

Lipocyte

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

Liposome

Lippen

Lipper

Like rock in a volcano or infant's food

Turned to fluid

That which liquefies.

Thaws

Convert (assets) into cash

Convert to cash

Kill dead, accepting one pound

To render liquid.

Liquify

Liquify

Say Scotch on the rocks is sweet

Sweet drink on the rocks (wordplay)

Pontefract cake ingredient

Liripipe

""LISSOME lithe, also LISSOM""

Auditors' audience (wordplay)

Is that what they do? Hear, hear!

They're at the radio, not the TV

50 = 10 by ear with gin (wordplay)

Kind of post.

Following advice about enlisting

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

Settled by male head showing flexibility

Flexibility.

Homeliest characters can be graceful

Toned graceful model hostile to me

Article in case stuck in tree, not stiff

LITHIAS lithia

Transformed into stone

Lithify

""A white pigment consisting of a mixture of zinc sulfide, zinc oxide, and barium sulfate.""

Like libel, say

Worth suing over

It's possibly a suit likely to dress fool up

Pressed one's suit (wordplay)

Pressed a suit

Took legal action

Contests at the bar (wordplay)

Files a suit against

Engages in legal proceedings

Auto adjunct

Glad item

Wrapper dropper (wordplay)

Scofflaw of a sort

Type of contributor to the street scene.

Recipients of some fines

Mess makers

Untidy picnickers.

Strewing trash

Making a mess of having a multiple birth, perhaps

Making a mess with a multiple birth, perhaps

I urge list of services

Religious rituals

It's up to evil, broken tiles to make one most active

Twirl over for the leafy moss

Flowerless plant

Seaweedlike plant

Guy covered with foie gras (wordplay)

Member of a City Company

Predecessor of a chauffeur.

Stable fellows (wordplay)

Are they irritable when dressed alike (wordplay)

Stable chaps, but apparently irritable ones

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

Livetrap

Red state (wordplay)

""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.""

A stack of rock is magnetic

Magnetite possessing polarity.

It attracts lots to Tyneside

Disinclination

Can't like revolting

A hole most dreadfully repulsive

Liberal profanity a few find offensive

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

Lobeline

Scumbag eating zero degree stew

Stew of meat, vegetables and hardtack

A stew formerly eaten by sailors

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

Localise

Localite

Confined to one area

Localize

Readily found

They indicate places where Clovis ate, perhaps

Lockbox

Lockstep

Moved, jocularly

Locomote

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

Impressive height; nobility (of manner)

Quality of altruistic motives

Stature without bags of money

Verse ()

Logicise

Logicise

Logicize