9-letter words containing r, l, d, a
- helengrad — a satirical name for Wellington as the seat of Helen Clark's socialist government from 1999 to 2008
- hellwards — towards hell
- heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- heyerdahl — Thor [too r] /tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.
- hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- hundredal — Of or pertaining to a hundred (administrative unit).
- hyder ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- idealizer — A person who idealizes.
- idiolatry — Autolatry, or self worship.
- idle gear — a gear placed between a driving and a driven gear to transmit motion between them.
- idolaters — Plural form of idolater.
- idolators — Plural form of idolator.
- idolatory — Misspelling of idolatry.
- impearled — Simple past tense and past participle of impearl.
- impleader — a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- indurable — Archaic form of endurable.
- ingerland — a jocular spelling of England, as pronounced in the chants of sports, esp football, supporters
- interdeal — to negotiate or deal mutually
- interlaid — Simple past tense and past participle of interlay.
- interlard — to diversify by adding or interjecting something unique, striking, or contrasting (usually followed by with): to interlard one's speech with oaths.
- ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
- irrelated — Unrelated.
- islanders — Plural form of islander.
- jailbirds — Plural form of jailbird.
- jalandhar — a city in N Punjab, in NW India.
- juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- jutlander — a peninsula comprising the continental portion of Denmark: naval battle between the British and German fleets was fought west of this peninsula 1916. 11,441 sq. mi. (29,630 sq. km).
- karlfeldt — Erik Axel [ey-rik ahk-suh l] /ˈeɪ rɪk ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1864–1931, Swedish poet: Nobel Prize posthumously 1931.
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
- 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.