9-letter words containing r, d, l
- kol nidre — a liturgical prayer for recitation at the beginning of the service on the eve of Yom Kippur asking that all unfulfilled vows to God be nullified and all transgressions forgiven.
- kriemhild — the wife of Siegfried and the sister of Gunther.
- kzyl-orda — a city in S Kazakhstan, on the Syr Darya.
- la grande — a town in NE Oregon.
- la mirada — a city in SW California.
- labor day — (in the U.S.) a legal holiday, commonly the first Monday in September, in honor of labor.
- lace card — (Obsolete) A punched card with all holes punched (also called a "whoopee card" or "ventilator card"). Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism. Card punches could also jam trying to produce these things owing to power-supply problems. When some practical joker fed a lace card through the reader, you needed to clear the jam with a "card knife" - which you used on the joker first.
- lacerated — lacerated.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- laddering — Present participle of ladder.
- ladderman — a firefighter who is a member of a hook-and-ladder company.
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- ladybirds — Plural form of ladybird.
- lagerfeld — Karl (Otto). born 1938, German fashion designer working mainly in Paris
- laggardly — in the manner of a laggard.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lampadary — a person who lights the lamps in an Orthodox Greek Church
- land crab — any of several crabs, especially of the family Gecarcinidae, that live chiefly upon land, returning to the sea to breed.
- land girl — a girl or woman who does farm work, esp in wartime
- land grab — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- land rail — corn crake.
- land rain — a steady, heavy rain.
- land-poor — in need of ready money while owning much land.
- landboard — a narrow board, with wheels larger than those on a skateboard, usually ridden while standing
- landdrost — the chief magistrate of a district
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- landforms — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- landgrave — (in medieval Germany) a count having jurisdiction over a large territory.
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- landlords — Plural form of landlord.
- landmarks — Plural form of landmark.
- landowner — an owner or proprietor of land.
- landshark — a person who makes inordinate profits by buying and selling land
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- landwards — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- langobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
- lanterned — Simple past tense and past participle of lantern.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- laplander — Also called Laplander [lap-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈlæpˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a member of a Finnic people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and adjacent regions.
- lardasses — Plural form of lardass.
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- last word — the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
- lateraled — Simple past tense and past participle of lateral.
- laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- laundered — Simple past tense and past participle of launder.
- launderer — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).