9-letter words containing a, k, d
- deck beam — a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads
- deck gang — (on a ship) the sailors who are on duty but not on watch.
- deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
- deck load — cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- deer park — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- dekagrams — Plural form of dekagram.
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- dekameter — ten meters, or one tenth of a hectometer (32.808 feet): abbrev. dam
- delinkage — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- demarking — demarcate.
- deskfasts — Plural form of deskfast.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- dish rack — frame for drying dishes
- disjasked — dilapidated; decayed; broken.
- disjaskit — fatigued or rundown
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- disk pack — a cylinder containing several magnetic disks that can be installed in or removed from a disk drive as a unit: used for data storage and retrieval.
- do a bunk — run away
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- dog track — racing circuit for dogs
- door jack — a frame for holding a door while its edge is being planed.
- downy oak — Quercus pubescens
- drag king — a female who dresses as a man and impersonates male characteristics for public entertainment
- drag link — a link connecting cranks on parallel shafts.
- drag rake — a heavy rake with closely set, hooklike teeth, for use in digging for clams.
- drake fly — mayfly (def 2).
- draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- drawnwork — Ornamental work on linen or other fabric, done by drawing out threads and usually with additional needlework.
- drawworks — A drawworks is a drum for reeling the drill string in and out.
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- dressmake — to make dresses
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- drop tank — an external aircraft tank, usually containing fuel, that can be detached and dropped in flight
- drugmaker — a person or company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.
- drunkards — Plural form of drunkard.
- duck hawk — a peregrine falcon of the American subspecies Falco peregrinus anatum, noted for its especially swift flight.
- duck-walk — to walk like a duck, as with legs apart and feet turned outward.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- ducktails — Plural form of ducktail.