6-letter words containing a, d, l
- gadfly — any of various flies, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals.
- galled — to make sore by rubbing; chafe severely: The saddle galled the horse's back.
- gaoled — to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.
- gelada — a large baboonlike cliff-dwelling monkey, Theropithecus gelada, native to mountains of Ethiopia, having a brown coat and, in the male, a luxuriant mane: an endangered species.
- geland — A kind of andisol associated with very cold climates.
- gerald — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “spear” and “rule.”.
- gilead — a district of ancient Palestine, E of the Jordan River, in present N Jordan.
- glad's — gladiolus (def 1).
- gladen — Sword grass.
- glades — Plural form of glade.
- gladly — feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased: glad about the good news; glad that you are here.
- gladys — Elizabeth, 1911–79, U.S. poet.
- glands — a sleeve within a stuffing box, fitted over a shaft or valve stem and tightened against compressible packing in such a way as to prevent leakage of fluid while allowing the shaft or stem to move; lantern ring.
- glared — Stare in an angry or fierce way.
- glazed — having a surface covered with a glaze; lustrous; smooth; glassy.
- glenda — a female given name.
- hadlee — Sir Richard (John). born 1951, New Zealand cricketer: an all-rounder, he played in 86 test matches in which he took 431 wickets and scored 3124 runs
- hadley — Henry Kimball [kim-buh l] /ˈkɪm bəl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1937, U.S. composer and conductor.
- hailed — to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
- halide — a chemical compound in which one of the elements is a halogen.
- haloed — Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
- haloid — Also, halogenoid [hal-uh-juh-noid, hey-luh-] /ˈhæl ə dʒəˌnɔɪd, ˈheɪ lə-/ (Show IPA). resembling or derived from a halogen.
- halted — Simple past tense and past participle of halt.
- halved — Simple past tense and past participle of halve.
- handel — George Frideric [free-der-ik,, -drik] /ˈfri dər ɪk,, -drɪk/ (Show IPA), (Georg Friedrich Händel) 1685–1759, German composer in England after 1712.
- handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- handly — Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
- harald — 1937- ; king of Norway (1991- )
- hardly — only just; almost not; barely: We had hardly reached the lake when it started raining. hardly any; hardly ever.
- hareld — The long-tailed duck, or oldsquaw.
- harold — Duane, 1925–1996, U.S. artist and sculptor.
- hauled — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- headly — (archaic) Chief; principal; capital; (of sins) deadly.
- healed — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
- herald — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- holard — (dated) The total water content of a sample of soil.
- ideals — a conception of something in its perfection.
- illiad — a wink
- inlaid — set into the surface of something: an inlaid design on a chest.
- inland — pertaining to or situated in the interior part of a country or region: inland cities.
- inlead — (transitive, mechanical, and, electrical) To lead into; conduct.
- iridal — (rare) Pertaining to a rainbow.
- island — a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
- isolda — a female given name, form of Iseult.
- jailed — Simple past tense and past participle of jail.
- jandal — (New Zealand) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps mounted between the big toe and index toe.
- kendal — a town in NW England, in Cumbria: a gateway town to the Lake District, with an ancient woollen industry. Pop: 28 030 (2001)
- khalid — (Khalid ibn Abdul-Aziz al Saud) 1913–82, king of Saudi Arabia 1975–82 (son of ibn-Saud and brother of Faisal).
- kodaly — Zoltán [zawl-tahn] /ˈzɔl tɑn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1967, Hungarian composer.
- l-dopa — Pharmacology. levodopa.