9-letter words containing a, l
- daedalean — an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
- daedalian — of Daedalus
- daedalion — a son of Lucifer who, despondent over the death of his daughter Chione, leaped off Parnassus: Apollo changed him into a hawk.
- daffodils — Plural form of daffodil.
- dailiness — the quality or nature of being daily
- dairyland — an area or region specializing in dairy production, as Wisconsin and Minnesota in the U.S.
- dal segno — (of a piece of music) to be repeated from the point marked with a sign to the word fine
- 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.
- dalliance — If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.
- dalmatian — A Dalmatian is a large dog with short, smooth, white hair and black or dark brown spots.
- dalmatics — Plural form of dalmatic.
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- daltonian — relating to John Dalton or his atomic theory
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- daly city — city in W Calif.: suburb of San Francisco: pop. 104,000
- damn fool — Damn fool means 'very stupid'.
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damningly — in a damning manner
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- danceable — appropriate for or conducive to dancing: danceable music.
- dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- dandelion — A dandelion is a wild plant which has yellow flowers with lots of thin petals. When the petals of each flower drop off, a fluffy white ball of seeds grows.
- dandiacal — of the nature of a dandy, like a dandy
- dapatical — (obsolete) sumptuous in cheer.
- daredevil — Daredevil people enjoy doing physically dangerous things.
- darklings — in darkness
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- darlingly — in a darling or charming manner
- dartingly — In a darting manner; rapidly.
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- dashlight — a light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile, esp at night
- dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
- dasypygal — (nonce) Having hairy buttocks.
- data file — a file containing data that is used by a computer program
- data flow — (architecture) A data flow architecture or language performs a computation when all the operands are available. Data flow is one kind of data driven architecture, the other is demand driven. It is a technique for specifying fine-grain concurrency, usually in the form of two-dimensional graphs in which instructions that are available for concurrent execution are written alongside each other while those that must be executed in sequence are written one under the other. Data dependencies between instructions are indicated by directed arcs. Instructions do not reference memory since the data dependence arcs allow data to be transmitted directly from the producing instruction to the consuming one. Data flow schemes differ chiefly in the way that they handle re-entrant code. Static schemes disallow it, dynamic schemes use either "code copying" or "tagging" at every point of reentry. An example of a data flow architecture is MIT's VAL machine.
- data link — a telecommunications link between two locations enabling the transmission and receiving of data
- dataglove — a glove connected to a computer and equipped with sensors allowing the actual movements of a person's hand to manipulate virtual objects
- date line — international date line
- date palm — A date palm is a palm tree on which dates grow.
- datelined — Simple past tense and past participle of dateline.
- datelines — Plural form of dateline.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- dauntless — A dauntless person is brave and confident and not easily frightened.
- davy lamp — an early safety lamp for miners, in which the flame was enclosed by wire gauze as a protection against firedamp
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.