9-letter words containing d, a, l, r
- gold card — A gold card is a special type of credit card that gives you extra benefits such as a higher spending limit.
- gold star — a gold-colored star displayed, as on a service flag, to indicate that a member of one's family, organization, or the like, was killed in war as a member of the armed forces.
- goldarned — goddamn (used as a euphemism in expressions of anger, disgust, surprise, etc.).
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- gradeless — Without a grade.
- gradually — taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little: gradual improvement in health.
- grand mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
- grassland — an area, as a prairie, in which the natural vegetation consists largely of perennial grasses, characteristic of subhumid and semiarid climates.
- gravelled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- gray lady — a female worker in the American Red Cross who serves as a volunteer aide in medical services.
- gray mold — a disease of plants, characterized by a gray, furry coating on the decaying parts, caused by any of several fungi.
- greendale — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- greenland — a self-governing island belonging to Denmark, located NE of North America: the largest island in the world. About 844,000 sq. mi. (2,186,000 sq. km); about 700,000 sq. mi. (1,800,000 sq. km) icecapped. Capital: Godthåb.
- grid leak — a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.
- grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.
- grunewald — Mathias [mah-tee-ahs] /mɑˈti ɑs/ (Show IPA), (Mathias Neithardt-Gothardt) c1470–1528, German painter and architect.
- guanadrel — a substance, C 20 H 40 N 6 O 8 S, used as an antihypertensive.
- guardedly — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- guardless — Defenceless.
- guardrail — Also, guardrailing. a protective railing, as along a road or stairway.
- haggardly — In a haggard manner.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- halliards — Plural form of halliard.
- hand-roll — (jargon) (From mainstream slang "hand-rolled cigarette" in opposition to "ready-made") To perform a normally automated software installation or configuration process by hand; implies that the normal process failed due to bugs or was defeated by something exceptional in the local environment. "The worst thing about being a gateway between four different nets is having to hand-roll a new sendmail configuration every time any of them upgrades."
- handlebar — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- hard clam — a quahog.
- hard coal — anthracite.
- hard left — You use hard left to describe those members of a left wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.
- hard lens — a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism.
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard loan — a foreign loan which is to be paid back in an agreed currency which has stability and economic strength
- hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hard sell — aggressive sales
- hard-bill — a seed-eating bird.
- hard-boil — to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
- hard-laid — describing a rope the lay of which is at a relatively great angle to its axis; short-laid.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- hard-sell — characterized by or promoted through a hard sell: hard-sell tactics.
- hardliner — Alternative spelling of hard-liner.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- harigalds — the intestines of an animal
- harold ii — 1022?–66, king of England 1066: defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings (son of Earl Godwin).
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- head girl — The head girl of a school is the girl who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- headliner — a performer whose name appears most prominently in a program or advertisement or on a marquee; star.
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- heartedly — having a specified kind of heart (now used only in combination): hardhearted; sad-hearted.
- heartland — the part of a region considered essential to the viability and survival of the whole, especially a central land area relatively invulnerable to attack and capable of economic and political self-sufficiency.