9-letter words containing n, a, s, d
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- nabonidus — died 539? b.c, last king of Babylonia 556–539 (father of Belshazzar).
- nakedness — The state or fact of being naked.
- nasalized — Simple past tense and past participle of nasalize.
- nauseated — to affect with nausea; sicken.
- neckbands — Plural form of neckband.
- nefandous — Unspeakable, appalling.
- nematodes — Plural form of nematode.
- newsboard — bulletin board.
- newsstand — a stall or other place at which newspapers and often periodicals are sold, as on a street corner or in a building lobby.
- newstrade — newspaper retail as a whole
- nonbiased — Not biased.
- nonsacred — Not sacred.
- nonsteady — not steady or stable; unsteady
- nosebands — Plural form of noseband.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- notarised — to certify (a document, contract, etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public.
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- novodamus — a clause in a charter whereby a grant (particularly of property) is renewed by a (feudal) superior, esp for the purpose of making a minor alteration to the former grant; the charter itself
- nuff said — used to indicate that the preceding statement is sufficient
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- nyasaland — former name of Malawi (def 1).
- oceanside — a city in SW California.
- odonatist — a person who studies or is expert in insects that belong to the zoological group Odonata
- oil sands — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- old saxon — the Saxon dialect of Low German in use before c1100. Abbreviation: OS.
- oleanders — Plural form of oleander.
- ombudsman — a government official who hears and investigates complaints by private citizens against other officials or government agencies.
- ordinands — Plural form of ordinand.
- ordinates — Plural form of ordinate.
- organised — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- outstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstand.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- pad stone — a stone template.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- panderess — a female panderer
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panderous — resembling a pander
- pantdress — a dress with a divided skirt
- pas d'ane — a pair of rings set below and at right angles to the quillons of a sword as a guard for the forefinger.
- pass band — the range of frequencies that pass with a minimum of attenuation through an electronic filter.
- pastedown — the leaf of an endpaper that is pasted to the inside of the front or back cover of a book.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- pen-based — (of a computer) having an electronic stylus rather than a keyboard as the primary input device.
- penalised — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- pinelands — the, an extensive coastal region in S and SE New Jersey, composed chiefly of pine stands, sandy soils, and swampy streams. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
- planeside — the area on either side of an airplane.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.