9-letter words containing d, o, a, l
- subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
- synodical — of a synod; synodal
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- tailboard — the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.
- take hold — become established
- talk down — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- thralldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
- thylakoid — a flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis, in plants and algae occurring in interconnected stacks constituting a granum of the chloroplast, and in other photosynthesizing organisms occurring either singly or as part of the cell membrane or other structure.
- thyroidal — of or relating to the thyroid gland
- toadstool — any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, especially the agarics.
- toll road — a road or highway on which a toll is exacted.
- towelhead — an offensive term for someone who wears a turban
- trainload — the cargo or passenger capacity of a train.
- truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
- typhoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- ultracold — extremely cold
- unallowed — Physics. involving a change in quantum numbers, permitted by the selection rules: allowed transition.
- unalloyed — If you describe a feeling such as happiness or relief as unalloyed, you are emphasizing that it is a strong feeling and no other feeling is involved.
- uncordial — unfriendly
- underload — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- uniondale — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- unlabored — done or made with difficulty; heavy: labored breathing.
- unloading — to take the load from; remove the cargo or freight from: to unload a truck; to unload a cart.
- unlocated — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- unsolaced — not comforted
- validator — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- varioloid — resembling smallpox.
- videoland — the world of television and televised images
- videoplay — teleplay.
- vocalised — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- volgograd — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga River: battles in World War II, September 1942–February 1943.
- volksraad — the legislative assembly of the Boer republics in South Africa during the latter half of the 19th century
- wagonload — the load carried by a wagon.
- walk-down — a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
- wallboard — material manufactured in large sheets for use in making or covering walls, ceilings, etc., as a substitute for wooden boards or plaster.
- wallopped — Simple past tense and past participle of wallop.
- war cloud — something that threatens war; a harbinger of conflict.
- warmblood — A horse of a breed that is a cross between an Arab or similar breed and another breed of the draft or pony type.
- wash load — a load of washing which is put in a washing machine
- wild boar — a wild Old World swine, Sus scrofa, from which most of the domestic hogs are believed to be derived.
- wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wood coal — brown coal; lignite.
- wood dale — a town in NE Illinois.
- wood opal — a form of petrified wood impregnated by common opal
- woodlands — Plural form of woodland.
- woodlarks — Plural form of woodlark.
- workloads — Plural form of workload.
- world car — an automobile designed to be built with standard parts manufactured in various countries and sold, with few changes, throughout the world.