9-Letter Words Starting with L

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; chiefly used in the plural. plural.

Litharge

Law-practicing reptile (wordplay)

One in legal dispute

One in a court battle.

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

Coastal regions.

Study of rights in speech

I urge list of services

Religious rituals

Service conductor fired primitive tenor

See religious leader stir guilt terribly

Authority on rites

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

Livetrap

Loadstar

Zeitgeist and "umami," linguistically

Karaoke and smorgasbord, linguistically speaking

Weltschmerz and schadenfreude, for example

Lobster

Relating to power of moving mad vehicle!

Relating to shifts of temperature in unusually cool room

Guides for ancient mariners.

Navigational reference points

Sources of inspiration

Slide-rule number

In math, it may be common or natural

Slide rule's basis

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

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

Engaged in political skulduggery

Swapped political favors

Took part in a lumberjack contest

Lumberjack, at times (wordplay)

Exchanger of political favors

Political favor-monger

Teens at a food court, maybe

Group gathering for no reason

Ones hanging around

Wild lion and tiger lurking

Dawdling toiler drunk on gin cocktail

Just hanging around

Fuselage parts

Classical music fans

Classical musicians Slang.

Classical musicians: Slang.

Some ranch cattle

Range sight

Lonestar beeves

Beetle with a lengthy narrow body

Arctic birds.

Longueur

Warm-up deliveries

Lopper

Lordly

Walk all over novice inside school for the little chiefs

Titled British dignitaries

Noble potencies

Eyeglasses with no letter 'g' (wordplay)

Pair of glasses with a handle

Specs on a stick

Loricate

Birds, we hear, transport poet

Colorful parrots

Whistle-blowers (wordplay)

Stage door johnnies.

Gay rakes

Poor retirement plans (wordplay)

Ventures broadcast re T. S. Eliot

Low visibility figure

Round American splits garden tool turning over plant

Soaring honeymooners (wordplay)

Small African parrots or romantic couple

Openly affectionate couple

Small, UNLIKE THIS!

Some letters perhaps from minor lawsuit

Drop the bag ... not like THAT!

On the bottom.

At the bottom of the list.

At the very bottom

High living is not for him

Scot who touched down in the valley (wordplay)

Flat dweller

Lowlifer

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,""

Oil from car black until changed

It helps get the wheels turning

It may keep things moving

Oil (a mechanism)

Apply oil/grease

Smooth Blair cut apart by English

""Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. as, the lubricity of oil.""

Lubric.

""Any of several substances found in luminescent organisms (such as the firefly, Photinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferinPhotinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferin""

Revictual (anagram)

Rewarding development of vital cure

Vertical upstart could be moneymaking

Somewhat ridiculous (ditto without one?)

Absurd or farcical

Curd Louis prepared was laughable

Lumberer

Sawyer's table

Moving like an elephant

Failing to start sleeping, being clumsy

Awful mumbler - a northern feller

Paul Bunyan's calling.

Paul Bunyan, for example

They deal in deal

English word

""A votive candle set into a small, decorative paper bag weighted with sand and placed in a row with others along a walkway, driveway, or rooftop as a holiday decoration. Also called regionally farolito .""

Supposed inhabitants of the moon

Home of counterculture (wordplay)

School's cafeteria

Where students meet to eat

Lungworm

Flowering groundcover plants in the apt genus Pulmonaria

Ecliptic period of Julian calendar.

Concerning both the moon and sun's motions

Like the Hebrew calendar, but not the Islamic

Ghastly quality

Ghastly action started lately underwater clear of the headland

Luster

Lustrate

Lustrate

Lustring

Profuse in growth

(Of hair) thick and healthy

Long shift female ignored, working in a rut

Enjoy greatly, to excess perhaps

Enjoy to excess

Revel in indulgence

Very comfortable

Extravagant

You are you, in short, to be so comfortable with Louis X

Lyrebird

In an enthusiastic or effusive way

Lily and Carly are dancing in an expressive way

How Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote ballads

Lyricise

Lyricise

Lyricism

Important people on Broadway.

Hart and Hammerstein

Songwriters call up securing one in charts

Lyricize

Lyricize

An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.