9-letter words containing r, l, d, a
- rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
- roundball — basketball
- roundelay — a song in which a phrase, line, or the like, is continually repeated.
- ruddleman — a person who deals in ruddle.
- rutilated — containing fine, embedded needles of rutile.
- sailboard — a long board, usually of Plexiglas, used for windsurfing, having a mount for a sail, a daggerboard, and a small skeg.
- salad bar — an assortment of salad ingredients, condiments, and dressings displayed on a serving table or counter, as at a restaurant, so that one can choose and combine ingredients freely.
- scarsdale — a town in SE New York, N of New York City.
- schedular — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- scrabbled — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- scuddaler — a leader of festivities
- seawardly — in a seaward direction
- selfwards — in the direction of oneself
- sheldrake — any of several Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna, certain species of which have highly variegated plumage.
- shrubland — land covered by shrubs
- silk road — ancient trade route extending from China to the Mediterranean
- slanderer — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
- solar day — Astronomy. the time interval between two successive transits by the sun of the meridian directly opposite that of the observer; the 24-hour interval from one midnight to the following midnight.
- sparsedly — in a scattered manner
- spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- spraddled — to straddle.
- springald — a youth; young fellow.
- steelyard — a portable balance with two unequal arms, the longer one having a movable counterpoise and the shorter one bearing a hook or the like for holding the object to be weighed.
- steroidal — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- straddler — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- stradella — Alessandro [ah-les-sahn-draw] /ˌɑ lɛsˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), 1645?–82? Italian composer.
- stralsund — a seaport in NE Germany: a member of the medieval Hanseatic League; besieged by Wallenstein 1628.
- strangled — A strangled voice or cry sounds unclear because the throat muscles of the person speaking or crying are tight.
- subdealer — a dealer who buys from another dealer
- subdermal — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
- subhedral — (of mineral grains comprising igneous rocks) having a partial or incomplete crystal face or form.
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
- synedrial — relating to a synedrion
- tahsildar — (in India) a collector for, or official of, the revenue department.
- tailboard — the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.
- tailender — a person at the tail end, esp (in cricket) the batter or batters last in the batting order
- taligrade — walking on the outer side of the foot.
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- teledrama — a drama written especially for broadcast on television.
- tendulkar — Sachin (ˈsæʃɪn) (Ramesh). born 1973, Indian cricketer: he played in 200 test matches (1989–2013) and was the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in tests (2011) and first to score 100 international centuries (2012)
- thralldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
- thyroidal — of or relating to the thyroid gland
- toll road — a road or highway on which a toll is exacted.
- tradeable — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trailhead — the point where a trail starts.