9-letter words containing a, d, s, l
- astraddle — with a leg on either side of something
- auslander — (in a German-speaking country) a foreigner
- autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
- backlands — Plural form of backland.
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- bad lands — a deeply eroded barren region of SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska
- badgeless — without a badge
- baldheads — Plural form of baldhead.
- balladist — someone who composes or performs ballads
- ballasted — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- balsawood — The wood of the balsa tree.
- band list — a list of Canadian Indians formally recognized as belonging to a band
- bandshell — a type of bandstand enclosed at the back
- base load — the more or less constant part of the total load on an electrical power-supply system
- bastardly — of no value; worthless.
- beadblast — a jet of small glass beads blown from a nozzle under air or steam pressure
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beardless — without a beard
- beardsley — Aubrey (Vincent). 1872–98, English illustrator: noted for his stylized black-and-white illustrations, esp those for Oscar Wilde's Salome and Pope's Rape of the Lock
- bedazzles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedazzle.
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- bedplates — Plural form of bedplate.
- billiards — Billiards is a game played on a large table, in which you use a long stick called a cue to hit balls against each other or into pockets around the sides of the table.
- bladeless — without a blade
- blandness — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- bleasdale — Alan. born 1946, British playwright, best known for his television series The Boys From the Blackstuff (1983) and GBH (1991)
- blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
- bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
- body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
- body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- brandless — having or displaying no brand
- breadless — without bread; without food
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- cadastral — Surveying. (of a map or survey) showing or including boundaries, property lines, etc.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- caddishly — in a caddish manner
- caladiums — Plural form of caladium.
- calendars — Plural form of calendar.
- calenders — Plural form of calender.
- calloused — A foot or hand that is calloused is covered in calluses.
- canalised — to make a canal or canals through.
- 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
- canoodles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canoodle.
- cardinals — of prime importance; chief; principal: of cardinal significance.
- cartloads — Plural form of cartload.
- caseloads — Plural form of caseload.
- catalysed — to act upon by catalysis.