9-letter words containing a, d, o, l
- goalwards — toward or in the direction of the opposing team's goal
- god-awful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- gold card — A gold card is a special type of credit card that gives you extra benefits such as a higher spending limit.
- gold leaf — gold in the form of very thin foil, as for gilding.
- gold star — a gold-colored star displayed, as on a service flag, to indicate that a member of one's family, organization, or the like, was killed in war as a member of the armed forces.
- goldarned — goddamn (used as a euphemism in expressions of anger, disgust, surprise, etc.).
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- good deal — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- goodfella — a gangster, esp one in the Mafia
- gray mold — a disease of plants, characterized by a gray, furry coating on the decaying parts, caused by any of several fungi.
- half-done — past participle of do1 .
- hand tool — handheld instrument
- 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).
- handblown — (of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld blowpipe: handblown crystal.
- handholds — Plural form of handhold.
- handlooms — Plural form of handloom.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- hard coal — anthracite.
- hard loan — a foreign loan which is to be paid back in an agreed currency which has stability and economic strength
- hard-boil — to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
- harold ii — 1022?–66, king of England 1066: defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings (son of Earl Godwin).
- hazelwood — a town in E Missouri.
- head cold — a form of the common cold characterized especially by nasal congestion and sneezing.
- head-load — baggage or goods arranged so as to be carried on the heads of African porters
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- helgoland — a German island in the North Sea. ¼ sq. mi. (0.6 sq. km).
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hexapodal — of or relating to the hexapods
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- hold sway — have influence
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- holdfasts — Plural form of holdfast.
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- hollandia — former name of Jayapura.
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homicidal — of or relating to homicide.
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.
- idealogue — One given to fanciful ideas or theories, someone who theorizes.