9-letter words containing a, n, l, o
- corn meal — meal made from maize
- cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
- cornelian — carnelian
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornicula — plural form of singular corniculum: small horn
- corniglia — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- coronally — in a coronal manner
- corraling — Present participle of corral.
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- countable — capable of being counted
- countably — in a countable manner
- covalence — the number of pairs of electrons that an atom can share with its neighboring atoms
- covalency — the formation and nature of covalent bonds
- crinoidal — (zoology) Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids.
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- crown law — criminal law
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- cut along — to hurry off
- cyclopean — of, relating to, or resembling the Cyclops
- cyclopian — having only one eye
- daedalion — a son of Lucifer who, despondent over the death of his daughter Chione, leaped off Parnassus: Apollo changed him into a hawk.
- dal segno — (of a piece of music) to be repeated from the point marked with a sign to the word fine
- daltonian — relating to John Dalton or his atomic theory
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- damn fool — Damn fool means 'very stupid'.
- 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.
- 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.
- de molina — Tirso (ˈtirso). Pen name of Gabriel Téllez. ?1571–1648, Spanish dramatist; author of the first dramatic treatment of the Don Juan legend El Burlador de Sevilla (1630)
- decagonal — Shaped like a decagon.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- defoliant — A defoliant is a chemical used on trees and plants to make all their leaves fall off. Defoliants are especially used in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- denominal — denominative (def 2).
- denotable — Capable of being denoted or marked.
- detonable — able to be detonated
- 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
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- diagonals — Plural form of diagonal.
- dial down — to reduce or become reduced
- dial tone — The dial tone is the same as the dialling tone.
- dialation — Misspelling of dilation.
- dictional — of or relating to diction
- dilations — Plural form of dilation.
- do a line — to associate (with a person of the opposite sex) regularly; go out (with)
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- doctrinal — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
- dodecanal — lauric aldehyde.
- dog latin — mongrel or spurious Latin.