9-letter words containing a, d, g, l
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- languidly — lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow: a languid manner.
- langwidge — Eye dialect of language.
- leaguered — to besiege.
- legal aid — free legal service to persons unable to pay for a lawyer.
- legal pad — a ruled writing tablet, usually yellow and measuring 8½ × 14 inches (22 × 36 cm).
- legalised — to make legal; authorize.
- legalized — Simple past tense and past participle of legalize.
- legendary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- leningrad — a former name (1924–91) of St. Petersburg (def 1)
- leveraged — Simple past tense and past participle of leverage.
- levigated — Simple past tense and past participle of levigate.
- lifeguard — an expert swimmer employed, as at a beach or pool, to protect bathers from drowning or other accidents and dangers.
- litigated — Simple past tense and past participle of litigate.
- lodgeable — Capable of being lodged.
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- long card — a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- longboard — A type of long surfboard.
- longobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- madrigals — Plural form of madrigal.
- magdalena — a river in SW Colombia, flowing N to the Caribbean. 1060 miles (1705 km) long.
- magdalene — the, Mary Magdalene.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- marigolds — Plural form of marigold.
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- medalling — (British spelling) present participle of medal.
- megalodon — Any of a group of extinct sharks from the Oligocene to Pleistocene epochs.
- moonglade — (poetic, rare) The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
- niggardly — reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
- nonglazed — not glazed
- obligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- oil gland — uropygial gland.
- old guard — the imperial guard created in 1804 by Napoleon: it made the last French charge at Waterloo.
- paedology — the study of the character, growth, and development of children
- paraglide — to engage in paragliding.
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- pavlograd — a city in E Ukraine, E of Dnepropetrovsk.
- pedalling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- phalangid — an arachnid that belongs to the family Phalangidae
- plate-dog — a heavy metal plate on which plates, stereos, etc., are locked into position for printing on a rotary press.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- radiogold — a radioactive isotope of gold, used in the medical treatment of certain conditions
- radiology — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
- rangeland — range (def 17).
- red algae — the numerous algae that constitute the phylum Rhodophyta, which contain a red pigment in addition to chlorophyll. The group includes carrageen, dulse, and laver
- regardful — observant; attentive; heedful (often followed by of): a man regardful of the feelings of others.