9-letter words containing a, d, l, n
- bellyband — a strap around the belly of a draught animal, holding the shafts of a vehicle
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- bin laden — Osama (əʊˈsɑːmə). 1957–2011, Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network: presumed architect of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001. Killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
- blackband — a type of iron carbonate
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackland — an area of dark peaty soil
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- bland out — to become bland
- blandness — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- breadline — Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed.
- broadline — a company that deals in high volume at the cheaper end of a product line
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- byrd land — a part of Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea: claimed for the US by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1929, though all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959
- cadential — relating to or belonging to a cadence or a cadenza
- calandria — a cylindrical vessel through which tubes pass, esp one forming part of an evaporator, heat exchanger, or nuclear reactor
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- caledonia — Scotland
- calendars — Plural form of calendar.
- calenders — Plural form of calender.
- calendric — Of or pertaining to a calendar.
- calendula — any Eurasian plant of the genus Calendula, esp the pot marigold, having orange-and-yellow rayed flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- call down — to request or invoke
- call-down — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- canalised — to make a canal or canals through.
- canalized — Simple past tense and past participle of canalize.
- cancelled — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- candlelit — A candlelit room or table is lit by the light of candles.
- 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
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- candlepin — a bowling pin, as used in skittles, tenpin bowling, candlepins, etc
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- canefield — A field where cane is grown.
- canoodled — Simple past tense and past participle of canoodle.
- canoodles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canoodle.
- canulated — Simple past tense and past participle of canulate.
- cardinals — of prime importance; chief; principal: of cardinal significance.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- celandine — either of two unrelated plants, Chelidonium majus (greater celandine) or Ranunculus ficaria (lesser celandine)
- chalcedon — ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium: site of the 4th ecumenical council, a.d. 451
- chandelle — an abrupt climbing turn almost to the point of stalling, in which an aircraft's momentum is used to increase its rate of climb
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.