9-letter words containing o, d, r, l
- link road — a road used to link two cities or two more major hubs of road transport
- loan word — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
- loanwords — Plural form of loanword.
- lobstered — Simple past tense and past participle of lobster.
- lodestars — Plural form of lodestar.
- logrolled — Simple past tense and past participle of logroll.
- lombardia — a region of N central Italy, bordering on the Alps: dominated by prosperous lordships and city-states during the Middle Ages; later ruled by Spain and then by Austria before becoming part of Italy in 1859; intensively cultivated and in parts highly industrialized. Pop: 9 108 645 (2003 est). Area: 23 804 sq km (9284 sq miles)
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- long card — a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- longboard — A type of long surfboard.
- longobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
- longsword — A sword of a kind used in mediaeval Europe for hewing, thrusting and slicing. It is well suited to two-handed use in combat, but some can also be used in one hand.
- longwords — Plural form of longword.
- lop-eared — having ears that droop or hang down.
- lord lyon — the chief herald of Scotland
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- lordlings — Plural form of lordling.
- lordships — Plural form of lordship.
- love bird — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
- lovebirds — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
- low board — a diving board 1 meter (3.2 feet) above the water.
- low rider — an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
- lowriding — the practice of traveling in a lowrider.
- loxodrome — rhumb line.
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- marigolds — Plural form of marigold.
- marmolada — a mountain in N Italy: highest peak of the Dolomites, 11,020 feet (3360 meters).
- melodrama — a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
- meyerhold — Vsevolod Emilievich, original name Karl Theodor Kasimir. 1874–c. 1940, Russian theatre director, noted for his experimental nonrealistic productions. He was arrested in 1939 and died in custody
- middorsal — located in the middle of the dorsum or back
- millboard — a strong, thick pasteboard used to make book covers.
- modular c — A preprocessor-based extension to C allowing modules.
- modularly — In a modular manner.
- modulator — a person or thing that modulates.
- mold-warp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- moldboard — the curved metal plate in a plow that turns over the earth from the furrow.
- moldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- moorlands — Plural form of moorland.
- moralised — Simple past tense and past participle of moralise.