9-Letter Words Starting with L

Labdanum

Bottling-plant machines

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

Black-coated retrievers

Did they fetch the game from Canada (wordplay)

Trees transform urban slum

Cuts (flesh) roughly

Spike tears dreadfully

Ale crates smashed causing tears

Lacertid

Cousins of ant lions

Neuropteran insects

Delicate insects

Lacewood

Lacework

Laconism

Lacrimal

Lacrosse

Ladleful

Hens, perhaps, spotted beetles

Perhaps hens with spots might be 1 down

Red hens with spots (wordplay)

Ladyhood

The Parisienne upset Yves' old flames

Sweethearts.

Indoor plants popular in waiting rooms

Ladyship

Laetrile

Trifling gifts, in New Orleans variable

Trifling gifts, in New Orleans Var.

Laicise

Laitance

Buffalo and Toronto.

Fisherman's spot, sometimes

Place for an inland beach

Settings of some getaway cabins

Cabin settings

Dawdles

Belts Adam (anagram)

Censured severely or angrily

Beat the little beast like a Teddy

Calls on the carpet

Excoriates

Thrashes

Lambkill

Small diplomas (wordplay)

Materials for babies' rugs

Hides from gentle animals

Weepers.

Mica, shale, and butcher block

Divides into thin layers

Like some building materials

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

Lamister

Lampers

Part of the street scene.

They light the way

Streetlight supports

Sea creature hit police sergeant? He will!

Lampyrid

Primitive marine organisms

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

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

Laniary

Gaunt quality

Male falcons

Lanoline

Lanthorn

Lapboard

Pelts with stones

Lapidist

Tape larks when camouflaged

Larboard

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.

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

Common names for delphiniums

Frolics by cutpurse may be growing

Often-blue garden blooms

Trappers' footwear

Larrikin

Larruper

The weariness of girlhood (wordplay)

Not the energy of girlhood, perhaps

The langour of girlhood, perhaps

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

They're made to go indoors

Mediterranean sailing vessels

Psychoanalytic stages

Laterite

Laterize

Latewood

Barbers, at times

Lathwork

LATHY long and slender

Translates into a certain language.

Regions where cliches start off

Angular distances from the equator.

Yachting positions

LATOSOL a tropical soil

Laudanum

Laudator

Laughing

Laughter

Launcher

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

Special poets are honoured people

Nobel Prize winners

Nobelists, e.g

Samoan garments

Lavalier

Lavation

Pale purple flowers

Purple flowers

Mint plants.

Laverock

Lavisher

Lavish

Giving in abundance

Lawgiver

In the wrong way

How a mob acts

Anarchically

Senators, for example

Weighers of bills

They know how to handle bills

Laxation

They make you #2

They're taken to go

They get you going

Laxness

Idlers - they simply laze

Habitually idle and lazy people

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

Layerage

Layering

Non-expert, say

Non-clergy type

No reply as affecting ordinary guy

Lazulite

Lazurite

Couch potato (wordplay)

Person prone to proneness (wordplay)

Idler (colloq.)

Leachate

Leachy

English word

Leadwork

Leadwort

Stem protrusion

Slender stem that supports plant's flat green structure

Petiole

Leafworm

Tendency towards verbal slips

Sieve quality

Sievelike quality

Progresses in jumps or stages

Goes over another's head

Flog spare rubbish in vaults

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

Lechayim

Lechery

Lewd clues, set to entrap 3

Rakish sign about singer in front of us

Nothing in Hercules' disposition was lewd

Lecithin

Angry moms, at times

Angry dads, at times

Visitors to women's clubs.

Pivoting keels on the sides of a sailboat

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

Legalize

Residences of diplomatic ministers.

Residences of diplomats.

Diplomatic missions

""LEGGIN a covering for the leg, also LEGGING""

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

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

Lenience

Lenition

Lenitive

Lenticel

LEPIDOTE covered with small scales

Leprosy

""LEPROUS affected with leprosy, also LEPROSE, LEPROTIC""

""A person with a slender, thin, or frail body.""

""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

Sign makers, for example

Poster painters.

Some signmakers

Leucemia

Leukemia

Leukemic

Levanter

Levator

"Zeitgeist" U.K. band

Zeitgeist U.K. band

Equalisers

Pool table quality

Buys on margin, for example

Borrows for a buyout

Certain mechanical effects.

Levigate

Levirate

Picks oneself up (wordplay)

Helps to get up

Rises and floats in the air.

Levodopa

Levulose

Lewisite

Lewisson

Spirit-ed creations (wordplay)

Blend basil into alcoholic drinks

Martini and gimlet, for example

Libeccio

Libelant

Libelist

Libellee

Libeller

Defamatory, in Dover

See evil bullies outside being defamatory

Defamatory

Learner one harshly scolds and releases

Steals, slangily

Delivers lectures after colleague's third one

Rights it's wrong to take (wordplay)

Subjects of the Bill of Rights.

Cads take them

Book stores (wordplay)

Two of the 24 merge with volumes

They house books

Recklessly rob titles for opera books

Gilbert works

Operatic texts