9-letter words containing n, a, s, d
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- quadrants — Plural form of quadrant.
- quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.
- quandongs — Plural form of quandong.
- quantised — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- rabidness — The property of being rabid.
- radionics — a dowsing technique using a pendulum to detect the energy fields that are emitted by all forms of matter
- randiness — sexually aroused; lustful; lecherous.
- raynaud's — a disease, mainly affecting women, in which spasms in the blood vessels of the fingers or toes restrict blood flow to the affected part, which becomes pale, numb, and sometimes painful
- readiness — the condition of being ready.
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- restained — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- ringstand — a stand on which laboratory equipment is placed
- road sign — traffic notice
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
- roundsman — a person who makes rounds, as of inspection.
- saddening — causing someone to become sad
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- sainthood — the character or status of a saint.
- salinized — to treat with salt or render saline.
- salmonoid — resembling a salmon.
- samarinda — a city on E Borneo, in Indonesia.
- samarkand — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- san diego — a seaport in SW California: naval and marine base.
- san dimas — a city in SW California.
- sand crab — any of several crabs that live on sandy beaches, as the ghost crab or mole crab.
- sand dune — hill of sand created by wind
- sand flea — beach flea.
- sand goby — a species of goby, (Pomatoschistus minutus), that lives in European sandy waters
- sand jack — any of a number of containers of sand driven beneath a hull about to be launched as a temporary support and then drained of sand so as to let the hull down onto the launching cradle.
- sand leek — a Eurasian alliaceous plant, Allium scorodoprasum, having reddish-pink flowers, purple bulbils, and a garlic-like bulb
- sand lily — a small, stemless lily, Leucocrinum montanum, of the western U.S., having white, fragrant flowers.
- sand pear — Asian pear.
- sand pile — a base for a footing in soft soil, made by compacting sand in a cavity left by a wooden pile.
- sand shoe — a light tennis shoe; sneaker.
- sand trap — (on a golf course) a shallow pit partly filled with sand, usually located near a green, and designed to serve as a hazard.
- sand wasp — any of certain sphecid wasps of the subfamily Bembicinae that nest in the ground and are common along the seashore.
- sand-cast — to produce (a casting) by pouring molten metal into sand molds.
- sand-trap — (on a golf course) a shallow pit partly filled with sand, usually located near a green, and designed to serve as a hazard.
- sandalled — a shoe consisting of a sole of leather or other material fastened to the foot by thongs or straps.
- sandblast — a blast of air or steam laden with sand, used to clean, grind, cut, or decorate hard surfaces, as of glass, stone, or metal.
- sandcrack — a perpendicular fissure in some part of the wall of an animal's hoof, esp. of a horse, often caused by sandy soil
- sanderson — Tessa. born 1956, British javelin-thrower: won gold at the 1984 Olympics
- sandglass — an hourglass.