9-Letter Words Starting with L

Labdanum

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

Requiring considerable time and effort

Using much time and effort

Manual workers

Workers

Partying? Or working (wordplay)

It's working OK

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

Trees transform urban slum

(Of hair) sprayed to keep in place

Queer Carl became a varnisher

One putting on coat presents a pound bill: odd? About right

Lacquey

Lacunar

Ladleful

Car with a folding hood

Early auto style

Small convertible country needs golden permit

Langlauf

Reeling out, angles for seafood

It may be eaten roasted

Spiny lobster

French Polish (wordplay)

Glossophile's love

Formalised systems of communication

In a weak or fatigued manner

Element #57

A close run, maybe, for kleptomaniac

Related to theft

Light-fingered clue, arson suspected

Common names for delphiniums

Frolics by cutpurse may be growing

Often-blue garden blooms

Larruper

Beating violently

The weariness of girlhood (wordplay)

Not the energy of girlhood, perhaps

The langour of girlhood, perhaps

Regions where cliches start off

Angular distances from the equator.

Yachting positions

Laudanum

Might P raise this (wordplay)

Praise

Praise be that there's a case at the end of it!

Laudator

Like an ode

Expressing praise and commendation

Full of or giving praise

Adjective for Mr. Peepers.

Incongruous, inviting ridicule

It's hilarious, blowing up a huge ball

LAUGH to express mirth by explosive inarticulate sounds

Laughing

Laughter

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

Laureate

Special poets are honoured people

Nobel Prize winners

Nobelists, e.g

Laurel

Given honour and praise, it's right she from France should be embraced

Idlers - they simply laze

Habitually idle and lazy people

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

Lazulite

Lazurite

Leaguer

Lewd clues, set to entrap 3

Rakish sign about singer in front of us

Nothing in Hercules' disposition was lewd

Angry moms, at times

Angry dads, at times

Visitors to women's clubs.

Avocation of many authors.

Teaching in a college

Instructing or admonishing

In a casual way

Garland, without doubt, is comfortable

Sue Reilly for being relaxed

A band of nerve fibres

Lemuroid

English word

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

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.

Levulose

Defamatory, in Dover

See evil bullies outside being defamatory

Defamatory

Certification for professional practice

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

One of the Beach Boys (wordplay)

Bank magazine-rack overseer (wordplay)

GARFIELD + U = Beach V.I.P

Ligature

Cords to tie blood vessels

Surgical ties for blood vessels

Musical slurs suit Elgar possibly

Bright idea symbol

Source of illumination

Shining example of current usage

Lilliput

Long way to go (wordplay)

Long ride (wordplay)

A way to go by

Limuloid

LINGUAL a sound articulated with the tongue

Linguine

Linguini

Tongue specialists (wordplay)

People skilled in languages

Certain U.N. workers

Linoleum

Liquate

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

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

State of being fluid.

Available cash

Arachne ultimately got by on 51 Euros in cash

To render liquid.

Liquify

Liquify

Say Scotch on the rocks is sweet

Sweet drink on the rocks (wordplay)

Pontefract cake ingredient

Liquor

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

Quick to take action (wordplay)

Quick to sue

Keen to pursue lawsuits

Wrapper dropper (wordplay)

Scofflaw of a sort

Type of contributor to the street scene.

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

Lixivium

Scumbag eating zero degree stew

Stew of meat, vegetables and hardtack

A stew formerly eaten by sailors

""Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.as, a lobulated gland.""

Locution

Lodicule

Lomentum

Living a long time; of great age.

Viking "mead hall," for example

Word often paired with latitude

A concern of mariners

Navigator's concern.

Arctic birds.

Longueur

Cause of high telephone bills.

Talkativeness

Prolixity.

Layabouts' dream country

Idyllic spot

Left to love and lust outrageously in this bed of roses

Louden

Loudly

Noisemaker of sorts

Braggart with noisy oral orifice

Ear-splitting yakker

Round American splits garden tool turning over plant

The state or quality of being lousy.

LOUTISH ill-mannered and coarse

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.

Lucency

The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

""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""

Fortunate quality, having courage when powerless

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

Lullaby

Strains to get to sleep (wordplay)

Soothing songs for babies

They're crooned near cradles

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

Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina

""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 .""

Shine

Glow

Luminism

Luminist

Feature of badly-mixed custard

LUMPISH {stupid=adj}

Supposed inhabitants of the moon

Lunation

Formal midday meals

They take ages at last, of course

Society affairs

Home of counterculture (wordplay)

School's cafeteria

Where students meet to eat

One for when a meal is needed (wordplay)

Inlet much improved by midday (wordplay)

When midday meal is eaten

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

Lunkhead

Ghastly quality

Ghastly action started lately underwater clear of the headland

Luster

LUSTFUL full of lust

State of being lusty; vigor of body.

That Tom Jones quality

Enlists us, perhaps, to what Stone had for life

Vigor

Lustrate

Lustrate

Lustring

Lutanist

Lutecium

Lutefisk

LUTEIN a yellow pigment

Some string players

Some minstrels

Some bards

Luteolin

Lutetium

Luxation

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