Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like LIC often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: alcoholic, alicyclic, apostolic.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| alcoholic | 9 | 4 | |
| alicyclic | 9 | 4 | |
| apostolic | 9 | 4 | |
| autotelic | 9 | 4 | |
| catabolic | 9 | 4 | |
| cytosolic | 9 | 4 | |
| diastolic | 9 | 3 | |
| echolalic | 9 | 4 | |
| epicyclic | 9 | 4 | |
| evangelic | 9 | 4 | |
| exocyclic | 9 | 4 | |
| fumarolic | 9 | 4 | |
| genitalic | 9 | 4 | |
| hydraulic | 9 | 3 | |
| imbecilic | 9 | 4 | |
| isocyclic | 9 | 4 | |
| latosolic | 9 | 4 | |
| lyophilic | 9 | 3 | |
| metabolic | 9 | 4 | |
| noncyclic | 9 | 3 | |
| nonpublic | 9 | 3 | |
| oxyphilic | 9 | 4 | |
| parabolic | 9 | 4 | |
| pedocalic | 9 | 4 | |
| pilgarlic | 9 | 3 | |
| preexilic | 9 | 3 | |
| shambolic | 9 | 3 | |
| tricyclic | 9 | 3 | |
| ureotelic | 9 | 4 | |
| vitriolic | 9 | 3 | |
| zoophilic | 9 | 3 |
What’s typical about LIC-ending words?
LIC often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.