9-letter words containing a, k, d
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- corkboard — a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- crackhead — a person addicted to the drug crack
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- damaskeen — Alternative form of damascene.
- damasking — Present participle of damask.
- damyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- dandyfunk — a type of dessert typically eaten at sea, consisting of a cake or biscuit baked in fat and molasses
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- dark ages — the period from about the late 5th century ad to about 1000 ad, once considered an unenlightened period
- dark meat — meat that is dark in appearance after cooking, especially a leg or thigh of chicken or turkey (distinguished from white meat).
- dark star — an invisible star known to exist only from observation of its radio, infrared, or other spectrum or of its gravitational effect, such as an invisible component of a binary or multiple star
- dark-eyed — (of a person) having dark eyes
- darkeners — Plural form of darkener.
- darkeness — Obsolete form of darkness.
- darkening — Present participle of darken.
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- darklings — in darkness
- darknesse — Archaic spelling of darkness.
- darkrooms — Plural form of darkroom.
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- data bank — A data bank is the same as a database.
- data fork — Macintosh file system
- data jack — (hardware) A wall-mounted or desk-mounted connector (frequently a wide telephone-style 8-pin RJ-45) for connecting to data cabling in a building.
- data link — a telecommunications link between two locations enabling the transmission and receiving of data
- date back — If something dates back to a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- datebooks — Plural form of datebook.
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- dead duck — If you describe someone or something as a dead duck, you are emphasizing that you think they have absolutely no chance of succeeding.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deadstick — To land an aircraft without power.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income
- dealmaker — A dealmaker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- debeaking — Present participle of debeak.