9-letter words containing a, d, l, n
- gippsland — a fertile region of SE Australia, in SE Victoria, extending east along the coast from Melbourne to the New South Wales border. Area: 35 200 sq km (13 600 sq miles)
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- girl band — A girl band is a band consisting of young women who sing pop music and dance.
- glad hand — greet insincerely
- glad-hand — to greet warmly.
- gladdened — Simple past tense and past participle of gladden.
- gladstone — William Ewart [yoo-ert] /ˈyu ərt/ (Show IPA), 1809–98, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
- glandered — affected with glanders.
- glandless — Without glands.
- glandlike — Resembling a gland or some aspect of one.
- glandular — consisting of, containing, or bearing glands.
- glandules — Plural form of glandule.
- glissandi — Plural form of glissando.
- glissando — performed with a gliding effect by sliding one or more fingers rapidly over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp.
- goadingly — So as to goad or incite.
- goldarned — goddamn (used as a euphemism in expressions of anger, disgust, surprise, etc.).
- grand mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
- grassland — an area, as a prairie, in which the natural vegetation consists largely of perennial grasses, characteristic of subhumid and semiarid climates.
- greendale — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- greenland — a self-governing island belonging to Denmark, located NE of North America: the largest island in the world. About 844,000 sq. mi. (2,186,000 sq. km); about 700,000 sq. mi. (1,800,000 sq. km) icecapped. Capital: Godthåb.
- grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.
- grunewald — Mathias [mah-tee-ahs] /mɑˈti ɑs/ (Show IPA), (Mathias Neithardt-Gothardt) c1470–1528, German painter and architect.
- guanadrel — a substance, C 20 H 40 N 6 O 8 S, used as an antihypertensive.
- guildsman — a member of a guild.
- haldimand — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- half-done — past participle of do1 .
- hallstand — A piece of furniture, near to an outside door, on which hats and coats are hung, and umbrellas are stored.
- hand bell — a small handheld bell, especially as part of a tuned set having different notes or pitches and played by a group.
- hand lens — a magnifying glass designed to be held in the hand.
- hand tool — handheld instrument
- hand-held — held in the hand or hands: a handheld torch.
- hand-list — a list containing some rough or brief details
- hand-play — the practice of fighting with fists
- hand-roll — (jargon) (From mainstream slang "hand-rolled cigarette" in opposition to "ready-made") To perform a normally automated software installation or configuration process by hand; implies that the normal process failed due to bugs or was defeated by something exceptional in the local environment. "The worst thing about being a gateway between four different nets is having to hand-roll a new sendmail configuration every time any of them upgrades."
- hand-tool — tool (defs 8, 9).
- hand-walk — to carry (a memorandum, check, or other document) from one person or office to another so as to assure prompt delivery.
- handballs — Plural form of handball.
- handbells — Plural form of handbell.
- handbills — Plural form of handbill.
- handblown — (of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld blowpipe: handblown crystal.
- handclaps — Plural form of handclap.
- handclasp — a gripping of hands by two or more people, as in greeting, parting, making a commitment, or expressing affection.
- handhelds — Plural form of handheld.
- handholds — Plural form of handhold.
- handlebar — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- handlooms — Plural form of handloom.
- handplant — (skateboarding) A move in which the skater balances on his hand after skating up to the top of a halfpipe.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- handseled — Simple past tense and past participle of handsel.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands