9-letter words containing a, d, s, p
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- gypsyhead — a flanged drum on a winch, for winding in lines.
- hampstead — a former borough of London, England, now part of Camden.
- 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.
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- handicaps — Plural form of handicap.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- hands up! — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handshape — (in sign language) the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- handstamp — an implement for stamping an impression
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hardparts — the skeleton
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- hardships — Plural form of hardship.
- head shop — a shop selling paraphernalia of interest to drug users or associated with the use of drugs.
- headlamps — Plural form of headlamp.
- headships — Plural form of headship.
- headspace — empty space left above the contents of a closed jar, can, or other container.
- heapstead — the buildings at the surface of a mine
- hempstead — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- hospodars — Plural form of hospodar.
- ideoscape — (according to w Arjun Appadurai) The global flow of ideologies.
- idioplasm — germ plasm.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- in spades — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
- inspanned — Simple past tense and past participle of inspan.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- knapweeds — Plural form of knapweed.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampstand — a support for a light bulb
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- landslips — Plural form of landslip.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- lespedeza — any shrub or herb belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and lavender flowers, grown for forage, soil improvement, etc.
- lindalisp — Linda for Lisp.
- loadspace — the area in a motor vehicle where a load can be carried
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- maladapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maladapt.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.