9-letter words containing d, a, l, n
- chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
- channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- cleveland — a former county of NE England formed in 1974 from parts of E Durham and N Yorkshire; replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Hartlepool (Durham), Stockton-on-Tees (Durham), Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) and Redcar and Cleveland (North Yorkshire)
- clogdance — a folk dance characterized by heavy stamping steps, performed while wearing clogs
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- cloudland — region of dreams, imagination, or impractical speculation; visionary realm
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- 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)
- coastland — the land fringing a coast
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- collonade — Alternative spelling of colonnade.
- colonnade — A colonnade is a row of evenly-spaced columns.
- coloradan — of Colorado
- concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- concordal — of or relating to concord
- condillac — Étienne Bonnot de (etjɛn bɔno də). 1715–80, French philosopher. He developed Locke's view that all knowledge derives from the senses in his Traité des sensations (1754)
- condyloma — a skin tumour near the anus or genital organs, esp as a result of syphilis
- conflated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflate.
- congealed — Simple past tense and past participle of congeal.
- coordinal — (of animals or plants) belonging to the same order
- crashland — Alternative form of crash-land.
- crinoidal — (zoology) Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids.
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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'.
- 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.
- 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
- darklings — in darkness
- darlingly — in a darling or charming manner