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9-letter words containing a, d, o, r, l

  • pardalote — any of several tiny, short-tailed Australian songbirds of the genus Pardalotus, having short bills and most having brilliant plumage with gemlike specks on the dark upper parts.
  • parodical — having or of the nature of a parody.
  • patrolled — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
  • pavlograd — a city in E Ukraine, E of Dnepropetrovsk.
  • payloader — a heavy, wheeled vehicle with a large, movable blade or scoop at the front.
  • payrolled — a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
  • placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
  • plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
  • polarised — to cause polarization in.
  • polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
  • polaroids — Polaroid sunglasses
  • polyandry — the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time. Compare monandry (def 1).
  • portalled — a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
  • prodromal — a premonitory symptom.
  • prosodial — of or relating to prosody
  • pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
  • pyridoxal — a naturally occurring derivative of pyridoxine that is a precursor of a coenzyme (pyridoxal phosphate) involved in several enzymic reactions. Formula: (CH2OH)(CHO)C5HN(OH)(CH3)
  • radiogold — a radioactive isotope of gold, used in the medical treatment of certain conditions
  • radioland — the aggregate of listeners within the reach of a radio station's transmission.
  • radiology — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
  • rascaldom — the domain of rascals, a group of rascals
  • read-only — of or relating to files or memory that can be read but cannot normally be changed.
  • real mode — An operating mode of Intel 80x86 processors. The opposite of protected mode.
  • realaudio — (tool, communications)   A program from Real Media for playing audio over the Internet, and the lossy audio compression format it uses. The system is implemented as a client/server architecture. The RealAudio server incorporates an encoder which compresses sound into RealAudio files. The client side is a web browser plug-in or add-on (a recent version of Internet Explorer apparently has built-in support for RealAudio) which allows the stream of data sent from the server to be uncompressed and output using the normal sound facilities of the computer, such as a sound card. A 14.4 KBps or better modem is required, and a 28.8 KBps connection is recommended for music-quality sound.
  • red coral — any of several alcyonarian corals of the genus Corallium, as C. nobile, of the Mediterranean Sea, having a red or pink skeleton, used for jewelry.
  • reloading — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • remoulade — a cold sauce made with mayonnaise and various condiments and herbs, as chopped pickles, capers, mustard, parsley, chervil, and tarragon.
  • rhabdomal — of or relating to rhabdoms
  • road kill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
  • roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • romeldale — a breed of sheep characterized by high-quality and multicoloured fleece
  • rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
  • roundball — basketball
  • roundelay — a song in which a phrase, line, or the like, is continually repeated.
  • sailboard — a long board, usually of Plexiglas, used for windsurfing, having a mount for a sail, a daggerboard, and a small skeg.
  • silk road — ancient trade route extending from China to the Mediterranean
  • slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
  • solar day — Astronomy. the time interval between two successive transits by the sun of the meridian directly opposite that of the observer; the 24-hour interval from one midnight to the following midnight.
  • sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
  • steroidal — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
  • subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
  • swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
  • swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
  • tailboard — the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.
  • thralldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
  • thyroidal — of or relating to the thyroid gland
  • toll road — a road or highway on which a toll is exacted.
  • trainload — the cargo or passenger capacity of a train.
  • truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
  • ultracold — extremely cold
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