9-letter words containing l, a, d
- adoptable — able to be adopted
- adoringly — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorkable — socially inept or unfashionable in a charming or endearing way
- adrenalin — Adrenalin is a substance which your body produces when you are angry, scared, or excited. It makes your heart beat faster and gives you more energy.
- adrenally — in a manner relating to the adrenal glands
- adulating — Present participle of adulate.
- adulation — Adulation is uncritical admiration and praise of someone or something.
- adulatory — If someone makes an adulatory comment about someone, they praise them and show their admiration of them.
- adultered — Simple past tense and past participle of adulter.
- adulterer — An adulterer is someone who commits adultery.
- adulthood — Adulthood is the state of being an adult.
- adultlike — having attained full size and strength; grown up; mature: an adult person, animal, or plant.
- adultness — the state or quality of being an adult; an impression of maturity
- adultress — a female adulterer
- adverbial — Adverbial means relating to adverbs or like an adverb.
- adversely — unfavorable or antagonistic in purpose or effect: adverse criticism.
- adviceful — thoughtful or attentive
- advisable — If you tell someone that it is advisable to do something, you are suggesting that they should do it, because it is sensible or is likely to achieve the result they want.
- advisably — Wisely, in an advisable manner.
- advisedly — If you say that you are using a word or expression advisedly, you mean that you have deliberately chosen to use it, even though it may sound unusual, wrong, or offensive, because it draws attention to what you are saying.
- afflicted — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- afterload — (physiology) The load on a working muscle from a constant opposing force.
- agilawood — agalloch.
- agrodolce — an Italian sweet-and-sour sauce, made with onions, garlic, red wine vinegar, sugar, and raisins
- aguadilla — a seaport in NW Puerto Rico.
- aguinaldo — Emilio [e-mee-lyaw] /ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1964, Filipino leader during the Spanish-American war: opposed to U.S. occupation.
- air drill — a drill powered by compressed air.
- air medal — a U.S. military decoration awarded for meritorious achievement during participation in aerial operations
- airfields — Plural form of airfield.
- airlifted — Simple past tense and past participle of airlift.
- airmailed — Simple past tense and past participle of airmail.
- alackaday — alack
- alarmedly — in an alarmed manner
- albondiga — A Spanish or Latin American variety of meatball.
- alcimedes — the mother of Jason.
- alcimedon — an Arcadian hero whose daughter, Philao, was seduced by Hercules.
- aldebaran — a binary star, one component of which is a red giant, the brightest star in the constellation Taurus. It appears in the sky close to the star cluster Hyades. Visual magnitude: 0.85; spectral type: K5III; distance: 65 light years
- aldeburgh — a small resort in SE England, in Suffolk: site of an annual music festival established in 1948 by Benjamin Britten. Pop: 2654 (2001)
- aldehydes — Plural form of aldehyde.
- aldehydic — any of a class of organic compounds containing the group −CHO, which yields acids when oxidized and alcohols when reduced.
- alder fly — any of several dark-colored neuropterous insects of the family Sialidae, the larvae of which are aquatic and predacious on other aquatic insects.
- aldershot — a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)
- aldington — Richard. 1892–1962, English poet, novelist, and biographer. His novels include Death of a Hero (1929) and The Colonel's Daughter (1931), which reflect postwar disillusion following World War I
- alepidote — (of a fish) not having scales.
- alewashed — showing the effects of drinking beer
- alexander — Harold (Rupert Leofric George), Earl Alexander of Tunis. 1891–1969, British field marshal in World War II, who organized the retreat from Dunkirk and commanded in North Africa (1943) and Sicily and Italy (1944–45); governor general of Canada (1946–52); British minister of defence (1952–54)
- alexandra — 1844–1925, queen consort of Edward VII of Great Britain and Ireland
- algaecide — a chemical substance for killing and preventing the growth of algae
- algicidal — killing or preventing the growth of algae
- algicides — Plural form of algicide.