9-Letter Words Starting with L

Laager

Labdanum

Calling leg ball in play (wordplay)

Putting an identifying mark on

Putting identifying slips on

Partying? Or working (wordplay)

It's working OK

...which follows party holding power making heavy weather of things

Trees transform urban slum

Home of the circled letters (nonverbal)

Warren's bra thinly disguised!

Complex network of paths

Cousins of ant lions

Neuropteran insects

Delicate insects

Fringed, as petals.

Jagged, as a leaf

Fringed

Lacker

Lackey

Laconism

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

Heather, full of terrible dread, is running

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.

Laicise

Laicize

Laitance

Certain shore area

Summer-cottage site

LAMBENT flickering like a flame

Small diplomas (wordplay)

Materials for babies' rugs

Hides from gentle animals

Expert in ornamental fabrics (wordplay)

No genius he

Bozo or dodo

Weepers.

Complaining of incorrect alignment

Bemoaning faulty alignment

What a hell of a thing a matriarchy would be!

This is On the Beach - long song about dictator

A polymer of glucose and mannitol that is the main form of food storage of brown algae.

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

ID maker's machine

One covers nonsense creature's return

Gizmo used in making photo ID's

Inflammation of the lamin\'91 or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.

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

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

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

Langlauf

Reeling out, angles for seafood

It may be eaten roasted

Spiny lobster

Langrage

Langshan

Langsyne

French Polish (wordplay)

Glossophile's love

Formalised systems of communication

In a weak or fatigued manner

Laniary

Gaunt quality

Male falcons

Lanoline

Element #57

Lanthorn

Lapper

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

Lariat

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

Trappers' footwear

Larrikin

Beating violently

Relating to the voice box

A yell rang out, coming from the throat

Developing an allergy of the throat

Nostalgically upset, having lost coal production in a way that's permanent

Mediterranean sailing vessels

Psychoanalytic stages

Shaving preliminary

Latinize

Translates into a certain language.

Lattice

Laudanum

Might P raise this (wordplay)

Praise

Laughing

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

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

Laurel

Lavation

Laveer

Pale purple flowers

Purple flowers

Mint plants.

Giving in abundance

Enacting laws; legislative.

Lawyer

Laxation

Laxness

Layering

Non-expert, say

Non-clergy type

No reply as affecting ordinary guy

Couch potato (wordplay)

Person prone to proneness (wordplay)

Idler (colloq.)

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.

Tendency towards verbal slips

Sieve quality

Sievelike quality

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

Is Val making the engine rise (wordplay)

Yeast, for one

The type of agent involved in The Rising

Living a licentious lifestyle

Lecithin

Avocation of many authors.

Teaching in a college

Instructing or admonishing

In a wolfish way

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

Adjective (-al)

A band of nerve fibres

Summer party drinks

Some citrus drinks

Sidewalk-stand sales

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

""(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]""

Shrinking German city Heather goes round

Cutting down on

How a single sen is down in value

Lesson

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)

Levanter

Levant

Making flat and smooth

Cutting down - even on fish

Pool table quality

Moby Dick, for example

Moby Dick, e.g

Massive thing lit a haven development

Lewisson

Spirit-ed creations (wordplay)

Blend basil into alcoholic drinks

Martini and gimlet, for example

Libelant

Suer for damages

Suitor left in ballet movement

Libel

Don Juan, for one

Row about French composer, a philanderer

Sensually indulgent person

Having a vital urge

Book keeper (wordplay)

Quieter in a school, maybe

Book overseer (wordplay)

Librate

Balancing small party quota

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.""

Local Cockney actor poolside

Powerful local anaesthetic

Palmist's concern.

Items in palmistry.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire options

Tissues that may be torn

Bands of connective tissue

Tissues that connect bones

Ligation

Reduced the weight

Took a load off awfully thin ledge

Being illuminated, he tingled with excitement

Summer hair product

Lighting

Kundera's was insufferable

Lack of weight

Less night where there's absence of weight

Flashy sort of striker (wordplay)

Flashy sort of striker

Franklin's aid

Lignify

Lignify

Ligroine

Standard monetary unit of Swaziland

Swaziland's monetary unit

LILTING lilt

Doing calisthenics (with "up").

Warming up for exercise

Furnaces for reducing calcium carbonate

A mineral prepared from fruit (sound)

Luray Caverns material

Tie lemons up in sedimentary rock

Study of lakes and ponds

Limonene

Limonite

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

Long way to go (wordplay)

Long ride (wordplay)

A way to go by

Linalool

They secure wheels on axles

Vital components

Vital entities

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

LINGUAL a sound articulated with the tongue

Linguine

Linguini