9-letter words containing a, d, u, l
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daliesque — of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali: giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- dauntless — A dauntless person is brave and confident and not easily frightened.
- day pupil — a pupil at a boarding school who attends lessons during the day but does not sleep at the school
- de gaulle — Charles (André Joseph Marie) (ʃarl). 1890–1970, French general and statesman. During World War II, he refused to accept Pétain's armistice with Germany and founded the Free French movement in England (1940). He was head of the provisional governments (1944–46) and, as first president of the Fifth Republic (1959–69), he restored political and economic stability to France
- de la rue — Warren, 1815–89, English astronomer and inventor.
- deauville — a town and resort in NW France: casino. Pop: 3968 (2008)
- debateful — quarrelsome
- decalogue — Ten Commandments
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- defaulted — failure to act; inaction or neglect: They lost their best client by sheer default.
- defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- deludable — Capable of being deluded; gullible.
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- deputable — able to be deputed
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- devaluate — (transitive) To reduce in value.
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
- dialogued — Simple past tense and past participle of dialogue.
- dialogues — Plural form of dialogue.
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- difflugia — a genus of ameboid protozoans that construct a shell of cemented sand grains.
- dilutable — capable of being diluted
- dip fault — a fault that runs perpendicular to the strike of the affected rocks (i.e. parallel to the plane of the angle of dip of the rocks)
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- disulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- disvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of disvalue.
- diurnally — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- diuturnal — Durable, long-lasting.
- divulgate — to make publicly known; publish.
- dolgellau — a market town and tourist centre in NW Wales, in Gwynedd. Pop: 2407 (2001)
- double ax — an ax with a double-edged blade, frequently depicted in prehistoric decorative designs of the eastern Mediterranean region, especially in Minoan religious sites.
- doubleday — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- doubtable — (uncommon) Capable of being doubted; doubtful; dubious; dubitable. See usage notes below.
- doubtably — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- doughball — a small ball of bread dough, cooked in a stew, as an accompaniment to a meal, etc
- doum palm — doom palm.
- drainplug — A plug for a drain.
- drawerful — an amount sufficient to fill a drawer: a drawerful of socks.
- dreadfull — Archaic spelling of dreadful.
- droitural — pertaining to right of ownership as distinguished from right of possession.
- druidical — Alt form Druidical.
- du bellay — Joachim [French zhaw-a-keem] /French ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), Bellay, Joachim du.
- dual boot — (operating system) Any system offering the user the choice of two operation systems (OSes) under which to start a computer. A dual boot system allows the user to run programs for both operating systems on a single computer (though not simultaneously). The term "multiple boot" or "multiboot" extends the idea to more than two OSes. The OSes are generally unaware of each other's existence. They are installed on separate hard disk partitions or on separate disks. They may be able to access each other's files, possibly via some extra driver software if they use different file systems. The OSes need not be completely different - they might be different versions of Microsoft Windows (e.g. Windows XP and Windows NT) or Linux (e.g. Debian and Fedora). A dual boot system differs from an emulator such as vmware, which runs one or more OSes "on top" of the primary OS, using its resources.
- dual-band — of or relating to mobile telephones that can operate on two GSM frequency bands