9-letter words containing l, o, a, d, s
- de valois — Dame Ninette (niːˈnɛt). original name Edris Stannus. 1898–2001, British ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Ireland: a founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet Company (1931), which under her direction became the Royal Ballet (1956)
- dead loss — a person, thing, or situation that is completely useless or unprofitable
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deisolate — to remove from isolation.
- del sarto — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
- desolated — wretched or forlorn
- desolater — One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
- desolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desolate.
- desolator — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- diabolism — activities designed to enlist the aid of devils, esp in witchcraft or sorcery
- diabolist — Theology. action aided or caused by the devil; sorcery; witchcraft. the character or condition of a devil. a doctrine concerning devils. a belief in or worship of devils.
- diagonals — Plural form of diagonal.
- dialogism — a deduction with one premise and a disjunctive conclusion
- dialogist — a person who writes or takes part in a dialogue
- dialogues — Plural form of dialogue.
- diastolic — (of blood pressure) indicating the arterial pressure during the interval between heartbeats.
- diglossia — the widespread existence within a society of sharply divergent formal and informal varieties of a language each used in different social contexts or for performing different functions, as the existence of Katharevusa and Demotic in modern Greece.
- dilations — Plural form of dilation.
- diplomats — Plural form of diplomat.
- disallows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disallow.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- discoidal — Having the flat, circular shape of a disc or a quoit.
- dishallow — to profane; desecrate.
- dislocate — to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
- disposals — Plural form of disposal.
- disproval — The act of disproving; disproof.
- dissocial — disinclined to or unsuitable for society; unsocial.
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- doornails — Plural form of doornail.
- dovetails — Plural form of dovetail.
- downfalls — Plural form of downfall.
- downloads — to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a distant to a nearby computer, from a larger to a smaller computer, or from a computer to a peripheral device.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- draw lots — to decide an issue by using lots
- dropsical — of, like, or affected with dropsy.
- duathlons — Plural form of duathlon.
- dyspnoeal — Pertaining to, or of the nature of dyspnoea; in connexion with dyspnoea.
- endoblast — Entoblast.
- endoplasm — The more fluid, granular inner layer of the cytoplasm in ameboid cells.
- endosomal — Of or pertaining to an endosome.
- episodial — Episodic.
- escaloped — Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
- esdraelon — a plain in N Israel, east of Mount Carmel
- estradiol — A major estrogen produced in the ovaries.
- faldstool — a chair or seat, originally one capable of being folded, used by a bishop or other prelate when officiating in his own church away from his throne or in a church not his own.
- falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.