9-Letter Words Starting with L

Tough promises by Miliband's lot, or ...

Requiring considerable time and effort

Using much time and effort

Churchill's opposition

Members of a certain political party.

Members of Attlee's party.

Manual workers

Workers

Partying? Or working (wordplay)

It's working OK

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

Black-coated retrievers

Did they fetch the game from Canada (wordplay)

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

Lacewood

Lacework

Laconism

Lacrosse

Dairy process

Play at this in the dairy with a lion around

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

Ladyhood

The Parisienne upset Yves' old flames

Sweethearts.

One of the Lagomorpha.

Certain shore area

Summer-cottage site

Buffalo and Toronto.

Fisherman's spot, sometimes

Place for an inland beach

ID maker's machine

One covers nonsense creature's return

Gizmo used in making photo ID's

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

Part of the street scene.

They light the way

Streetlight supports

""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).""

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

Super bosses (wordplay)

Bogie men of housing shortage.

Some men of property

Possessor of real estate

Squire left one bad news

One with much property

Reeling out, angles for seafood

It may be eaten roasted

Spiny lobster

Lanoline

Lanthorn

Lapboard

Larboard

A close run, maybe, for kleptomaniac

Related to theft

Light-fingered clue, arson suspected

Somewhat slow (music)

In a fairly slow tempo (>music)

Line to gather unravels quite slowly

One jumping on the bandwagon, say

Fashionable sort (wordplay)

Fashionable one (wordplay)

Latewood

Lathwork

LATOSOL a tropical soil

Might P raise this (wordplay)

Praise

Laudator

Like an ode

Expressing praise and commendation

Full of or giving praise

Lavation

Laverock

Laxation

Idlers - they simply laze

Habitually idle and lazy people

In the outskirts of Leeds, there's always a fight for good-for-nothings

Church attendees

Non-expert, say

Non-clergy type

No reply as affecting ordinary guy

Place for keeping stores on a ship

Hospital for infectious diseases

Quarantine facility

Couch potato (wordplay)

Person prone to proneness (wordplay)

Idler (colloq.)

Leadwork

Leadwort

Leafworm

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

What 12 across has to slacken his grip

Not free to rent cargo space on board

Form of property tenure

Lewd clues, set to entrap 3

Rakish sign about singer in front of us

Nothing in Hercules' disposition was lewd

The specimen or element selected as the type of a species when a holotype has not been defined.

Pivoting keels on the sides of a sailboat

Soup ingredients, perhaps

Takeout food (wordplay)

Remains of the cricket match (wordplay)

Residences of diplomatic ministers.

Residences of diplomats.

Diplomatic missions

He was employed in a gory line

Roman soldier

Yearlong travels around Italy for soldier

Top drawer vocation for one in Windsor

Recurring musical theme

Theme of fancy tile design

Limit vote (anagram)

Recurring literary theme

Recurring musical phrase

Summer party drinks

Some citrus drinks

Sidewalk-stand sales

Lemuroid

Lenition

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.""

""(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]""

Lesson

English word

See white blood cell .

Pl. leukotomies also leucotomies Chiefly British A prefrontal lobotomy.

Levator

Levodopa

Levulose

Lewisson

Spirit-ed creations (wordplay)

Blend basil into alcoholic drinks

Martini and gimlet, for example

English word

Libeccio

Defamatory, in Dover

See evil bullies outside being defamatory

Defamatory

Bolivar, for one

Bolivar, for one

Bolivar's epithet

Balancing small party quota

Balancing

Recklessly rob titles for opera books

Gilbert works

Operatic texts

""Having the form of liber, or resembling liber.""

Licensor

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens.""

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

Lifework

Ligation

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

""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.""

Ligroine

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

Limuloid

Linalool

Delineation; a line or lines.

Linkwork

A salt of linoleic acid.

Linoleum

Linstock

Mothers with pride (wordplay)

Females with pride (wordplay)

Raisers of cubs

Lioniser

Assigning great social importance to

Acclaiming return of number one Liberal, I celebrate

Lionizer

Lionize

Lipocyte

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

Decomposition of fat

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

LIPOSOME a microscopic globule composed of lipids

Liposome

""The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.""

Say Scotch on the rocks is sweet

Sweet drink on the rocks (wordplay)

Pontefract cake ingredient

Liquor

""LISSOME lithe, also LISSOM""

Book reviewer

Critic.

Homeliest characters can be graceful

Toned graceful model hostile to me

Article in case stuck in tree, not stiff

""The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.""

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

Lithosol

""The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.""

Law-practicing reptile (wordplay)

One in legal dispute

One in a court battle.

Quick to take action (wordplay)

Quick to sue

Keen to pursue lawsuits

Coastal regions.

Twirl over for the leafy moss

Flowerless plant

Seaweedlike plant

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

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

Hail an object's dislikes (wordplay)

Disinclination

Can't like revolting

A hole most dreadfully repulsive

Liberal profanity a few find offensive

Lobation

Lobbygow

Lobbyism

Influential Washington group

Some D.C. workers

Capitol Hill wheeler-dealers

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

Lobstick

""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

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

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 ()

Slide-rule number

In math, it may be common or natural

Slide rule's basis

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

Type of statistical distribution

Logogram

Programmer's graphic symbol (wordplay)

Sign of trademark diagram

Anagram, for example

Puzzle based on recombination of the letters of a word

Logomach

An argument about words.

Dispute concerning words

Leave Mum in lake and start your verbal sparring

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

The Golden Arches, for McDonald's

Company emblems

Engaged in political skulduggery

Swapped political favors

Took part in a lumberjack contest

Lumberjack, at times (wordplay)

Exchanger of political favors

Political favor-monger

Perhaps ageless ethnological weave

Minimum clothing (wordplay)

Fig leaf successor (wordplay)