9-letter words containing a, d, l, e, s
- beardsley — Aubrey (Vincent). 1872–98, English illustrator: noted for his stylized black-and-white illustrations, esp those for Oscar Wilde's Salome and Pope's Rape of the Lock
- bedazzles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedazzle.
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- bedplates — Plural form of bedplate.
- bladeless — without a blade
- blandness — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- bleasdale — Alan. born 1946, British playwright, best known for his television series The Boys From the Blackstuff (1983) and GBH (1991)
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- breadless — without bread; without food
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- calendars — Plural form of calendar.
- calenders — Plural form of calender.
- calloused — A foot or hand that is calloused is covered in calluses.
- canalised — to make a canal or canals through.
- candlemas — Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
- canoodles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canoodle.
- caseloads — Plural form of caseload.
- catalysed — to act upon by catalysis.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- chlamydes — Plural form of chlamys.
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- coalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of coalesce.
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold case — a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- dailiness — the quality or nature of being daily
- dal segno — (of a piece of music) to be repeated from the point marked with a sign to the word fine
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daliesque — of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali: giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- datelines — Plural form of dateline.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- dauntless — A dauntless person is brave and confident and not easily frightened.
- day-lewis — C(ecil). 1904–72, British poet, critic, and (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) author of detective stories; poet laureate (1968–72)
- de valois — Dame Ninette (niːˈnɛt). original name Edris Stannus. 1898–2001, British ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Ireland: a founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet Company (1931), which under her direction became the Royal Ballet (1956)
- dead loss — a person, thing, or situation that is completely useless or unprofitable
- deadfalls — Plural form of deadfall.
- deadliest — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlines — Plural form of deadline.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deathless — immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- decayless — having no tendency to decay
- declassee — (of a woman) having lost social standing or status
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici