Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like CAL often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: angelical, archducal, arsenical.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| angelical | 9 | 4 | |
| archducal | 9 | 3 | |
| arsenical | 9 | 4 | |
| ascetical | 9 | 4 | |
| botanical | 9 | 4 | |
| canonical | 9 | 4 | |
| classical | 9 | 3 | |
| dandiacal | 9 | 3 | |
| deistical | 9 | 3 | |
| demonical | 9 | 4 | |
| dominical | 9 | 4 | |
| dropsical | 9 | 3 | |
| druidical | 9 | 3 | |
| dynamical | 9 | 4 | |
| elegiacal | 9 | 4 | |
| empirical | 9 | 4 | |
| equivocal | 9 | 4 | |
| eristical | 9 | 4 | |
| erratical | 9 | 4 | |
| fanatical | 9 | 4 | |
| fatidical | 9 | 4 | |
| galenical | 9 | 4 | |
| genetical | 9 | 4 | |
| graphical | 9 | 3 | |
| heretical | 9 | 4 | |
| identical | 9 | 4 | |
| idiotical | 9 | 4 | |
| illogical | 9 | 4 | |
| indexical | 9 | 4 | |
| juridical | 9 | 4 | |
| lemniscal | 9 | 3 | |
| monodical | 9 | 4 | |
| numerical | 9 | 4 | |
| piratical | 9 | 4 | |
| polemical | 9 | 4 | |
| political | 9 | 4 | |
| practical | 9 | 3 | |
| psychical | 9 | 3 | |
| quizzical | 9 | 3 | |
| satirical | 9 | 4 | |
| sceptical | 9 | 3 | |
| skeptical | 9 | 3 | |
| spherical | 9 | 3 | |
| subapical | 9 | 4 | |
| synodical | 9 | 4 | |
| technical | 9 | 3 | |
| theriacal | 9 | 3 | |
| umbilical | 9 | 4 | |
| uncynical | 9 | 4 | |
| unethical | 9 | 4 | |
| unlyrical | 9 | 4 | |
| unmusical | 9 | 4 | |
| untypical | 9 | 4 | |
| veridical | 9 | 4 | |
| whimsical | 9 | 3 |
What’s typical about CAL-ending words?
CAL often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.