9-letter words containing a, d, k, l
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- dealmaker — A dealmaker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
- deck load — cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- delinkage — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- drag link — a link connecting cranks on parallel shafts.
- drake fly — mayfly (def 2).
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- duck-walk — to walk like a duck, as with legs apart and feet turned outward.
- ducktails — Plural form of ducktail.
- dudelsack — doodlesack.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- flankered — Simple past tense and past participle of flanker.
- floodmark — A mark indicating the height reached by the waters in a previous flood.
- frankland — Sir Edward, 1825–99, English chemist: developed theory of valence.
- frikkadel — A traditional Afrikaner dish of baked (or sometimes deep-fried) meatballs prepared with onion, bread, eggs, vinegar, and spices.
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- gavelkind — (originally) a tenure of land in which the tenant was liable for a rental in money or produce rather than for labor or military service.
- glandlike — Resembling a gland or some aspect of one.
- grid leak — a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.
- half deck — (in a sailing ship) the portion of the deck below the upper or spar deck and aft of the mainmast.
- half-deck — a deck on an old ship of war that is situated below the upper deck and extends aft from the mainmast
- hand-walk — to carry (a memorandum, check, or other document) from one person or office to another so as to assure prompt delivery.
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- jaywalked — Simple past tense and past participle of jaywalk.
- kamchadal — Itelmen.
- kapil dev — (Ramlal) Nikhanj (nɪˈkændʒ). born 1959, Indian cricketer: an all-rounder, he played in 131 test matches and captained India to victory in the 1983 World Cup
- karlfeldt — Erik Axel [ey-rik ahk-suh l] /ˈeɪ rɪk ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1864–1931, Swedish poet: Nobel Prize posthumously 1931.
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
- knaidlach — a dumpling, especially a small ball of matzo meal, eggs, and salt, often mixed with another foodstuff, as ground almonds or grated potato, usually served in soup.
- kneadable — Capable of being kneaded, or worked into a mass.
- kundalini — the vital force lying dormant within one until activated by the practice of yoga, which leads one toward spiritual power and eventual salvation.
- kzyl-orda — a city in S Kazakhstan, on the Syr Darya.
- lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
- laid deck — a wooden deck having planking laid parallel to the sides of the hull so as to follow the curves toward the ends of the vessel.
- laid-back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
- lake chad — a lake in N central Africa: fed chiefly by the Shari River, it has no apparent outlet. Area: at fullest extent 10 000 to 26 000 sq km (4000 to 10 000 sq miles), varying seasonally; it has shrunk considerably in recent years
- lake mead — a reservoir in NW Arizona and SE Nevada, formed by the Hoover Dam across the Colorado River: one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. Area: 588 sq km (227 sq miles)