Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like IAL often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: actuarial, adverbial, altricial.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| actuarial | 9 | 3 | |
| adverbial | 9 | 3 | |
| altricial | 9 | 3 | |
| ambrosial | 9 | 3 | |
| auctorial | 9 | 3 | |
| authorial | 9 | 3 | |
| bacterial | 9 | 3 | |
| biosocial | 9 | 3 | |
| branchial | 9 | 2 | |
| bronchial | 9 | 2 | |
| cadential | 9 | 3 | |
| cantorial | 9 | 3 | |
| celestial | 9 | 3 | |
| censorial | 9 | 3 | |
| cercarial | 9 | 3 | |
| cladodial | 9 | 3 | |
| collegial | 9 | 3 | |
| colluvial | 9 | 3 | |
| congenial | 9 | 3 | |
| connubial | 9 | 3 | |
| convivial | 9 | 3 | |
| cursorial | 9 | 3 | |
| custodial | 9 | 3 | |
| decennial | 9 | 3 | |
| demential | 9 | 3 | |
| dissocial | 9 | 3 | |
| ecclesial | 9 | 3 | |
| editorial | 9 | 4 | |
| epitaxial | 9 | 4 | |
| essential | 9 | 3 | |
| estuarial | 9 | 3 | |
| factorial | 9 | 3 | |
| financial | 9 | 3 | |
| forestial | 9 | 3 | |
| fossorial | 9 | 3 | |
| impartial | 9 | 3 | |
| khedivial | 9 | 3 | |
| marsupial | 9 | 3 | |
| mercurial | 9 | 3 | |
| microbial | 9 | 3 | |
| miliarial | 9 | 3 | |
| nonracial | 9 | 3 | |
| nonsocial | 9 | 3 | |
| orificial | 9 | 4 | |
| parochial | 9 | 3 | |
| perennial | 9 | 3 | |
| petechial | 9 | 3 | |
| pictorial | 9 | 3 | |
| postaxial | 9 | 3 | |
| posttrial | 9 | 2 | |
| potential | 9 | 3 | |
| precocial | 9 | 3 | |
| preputial | 9 | 3 | |
| presidial | 9 | 3 | |
| primatial | 9 | 3 | |
| pycnidial | 9 | 3 | |
| raptorial | 9 | 3 | |
| rectorial | 9 | 3 | |
| rhizobial | 9 | 3 | |
| sartorial | 9 | 3 | |
| sciential | 9 | 2 | |
| sectorial | 9 | 3 | |
| sensorial | 9 | 3 | |
| stapedial | 9 | 3 | |
| subaerial | 9 | 3 | |
| subsocial | 9 | 3 | |
| suctorial | 9 | 3 | |
| surficial | 9 | 3 | |
| sympodial | 9 | 3 | |
| syncytial | 9 | 3 | |
| tonsorial | 9 | 3 | |
| triennial | 9 | 2 | |
| trinomial | 9 | 3 | |
| uredinial | 9 | 4 | |
| vaccinial | 9 | 3 | |
| vectorial | 9 | 3 | |
| vestigial | 9 | 3 | |
| vicennial | 9 | 3 | |
| vizierial | 9 | 3 |
What’s typical about IAL-ending words?
IAL often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.