9-letter words containing d, o, a, l
- overalled — wearing overalls
- overladen — to overload (usually used in past participle overladen): a table overladen with rich food.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overpedal — to play (the piano) with excessive use of the pedals
- overplaid — a plaid pattern superimposed on another plaid
- pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- paedology — the study of the character, growth, and development of children
- palladous — of or containing bivalent palladium.
- paloverde — a spiny, desert shrub, Cercidium floridum, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having green bark.
- paradoxal — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- parasoled — having a parasol
- parboiled — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- pardalote — any of several tiny, short-tailed Australian songbirds of the genus Pardalotus, having short bills and most having brilliant plumage with gemlike specks on the dark upper parts.
- parodical — having or of the nature of a parody.
- pasodoble — fast modern ballroom dance
- patrolled — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- pavlograd — a city in E Ukraine, E of Dnepropetrovsk.
- payloader — a heavy, wheeled vehicle with a large, movable blade or scoop at the front.
- payrolled — a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
- peak load — the maximum load on an electrical power-supply system
- pedalboat — a boat that is propelled by operating the pedals, usually one hired for pleasure
- pedocalic — of or relating to a pedocal
- pelopidas — died 364 b.c, Greek general and statesman of Thebes.
- pholidota — the order comprising the pangolins.
- picadillo — a traditional Latin American and Spanish dish of ground meat, onions, tomatoes, raisins, olives, and spices.
- pilonidal — noting or pertaining to a growth of hair in a dermoid cyst or in the deeper layers of the skin.
- placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
- planeload — the amount of people or cargo an airplane can carry.
- planetoid — an asteroid.
- planuloid — relating to a planula
- plasmodia — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plate-dog — a heavy metal plate on which plates, stereos, etc., are locked into position for printing on a rotary press.
- platinoid — resembling platinum: the platinoid elements.
- play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- polaroids — Polaroid sunglasses
- pole-axed — If someone is pole-axed, they are so surprised or shocked that they do not know what to say or do.
- polka dot — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
- polyamide — a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the amide group –CONH–.
- polyandry — the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time. Compare monandry (def 1).
- pondoland — an area in SE central South Africa: inhabited chiefly by the Pondo people
- populated — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- portalled — a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
- prodromal — a premonitory symptom.
- prosodial — of or relating to prosody
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.