9-letter words containing l, i, d, a
- galactoid — resembling milk; milky.
- galleried — a raised area, often having a stepped or sloping floor, in a theater, church, or other public building to accommodate spectators, exhibits, etc.
- galliards — Plural form of galliard.
- garibaldi — Giuseppe [juh-sep-ee;; Italian joo-zep-pe] /dʒəˈsɛp i;; Italian dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1807–82, Italian patriot and general.
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- gas field — a district yielding natural gas.
- gavelkind — (originally) a tenure of land in which the tenant was liable for a rental in money or produce rather than for labor or military service.
- gavialoid — of or resembling gavials
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- geraldine — a female given name: derived from Gerald.
- gerundial — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- gileadite — a member of a branch of the Israelite tribe descended from Manasseh.
- giltheads — Plural form of gilthead.
- gimmalled — (of a mechanism) jointed
- gippsland — a fertile region of SE Australia, in SE Victoria, extending east along the coast from Melbourne to the New South Wales border. Area: 35 200 sq km (13 600 sq miles)
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- girl band — A girl band is a band consisting of young women who sing pop music and dance.
- glaciated — Covered or having been covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
- glaciered — covered by, or coming from, glaciers
- gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
- gladiolus — any plant of the genus Gladiolus, of the iris family, native especially to Africa, having erect, sword-shaped leaves and spikes of flowers in a variety of colors.
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- glandlike — Resembling a gland or some aspect of one.
- glidepath — the course followed by an aircraft or spacecraft when descending for a landing.
- glissaded — Simple past tense and past participle of glissade.
- glissader — One who glissades.
- glissades — Plural form of glissade.
- glissandi — Plural form of glissando.
- glissando — performed with a gliding effect by sliding one or more fingers rapidly over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp.
- glochidia — glochid.
- goadingly — So as to goad or incite.
- 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.
- guardrail — Also, guardrailing. a protective railing, as along a road or stairway.
- guildhall — (in Britain) the hall built or used by a guild or corporation for its assemblies; town hall.
- guildsman — a member of a guild.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- haldimand — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- half dime — a silver coin of the U.S., equal to five cents, issued 1794–1805 and 1829–73.
- half tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- halliards — Plural form of halliard.
- hand-list — a list containing some rough or brief details
- handbills — Plural form of handbill.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- 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-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.