9-letter words containing s, a, d, l
- caudillos — Plural form of caudillo.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- chlamydes — Plural form of chlamys.
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- cladistic — relating to the classification of species based on evolutionary ancestry
- class day — a day during the commencement season on which the members of the graduating class in U.S. colleges and schools celebrate the completion of their course with special ceremonies.
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- coalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of coalesce.
- coastland — the land fringing a coast
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold case — a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved
- cold cash — money paid in full at the time of a business transaction
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- corydalis — any erect or climbing plant of the N temperate genus Corydalis, having finely-lobed leaves and spurred yellow or pinkish flowers: family Fumariaceae
- crashland — Alternative form of crash-land.
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- dactylics — Plural form of dactylic.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- daffodils — Plural form of daffodil.
- dailiness — the quality or nature of being daily
- dal segno — (of a piece of music) to be repeated from the point marked with a sign to the word fine
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daliesque — of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali: giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.
- dalmatics — Plural form of dalmatic.
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- darklings — in darkness
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- dashlight — a light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile, esp at night
- dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
- dasypygal — (nonce) Having hairy buttocks.
- datelines — Plural form of dateline.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- dauntless — A dauntless person is brave and confident and not easily frightened.
- day-lewis — C(ecil). 1904–72, British poet, critic, and (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) author of detective stories; poet laureate (1968–72)
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- de valois — Dame Ninette (niːˈnɛt). original name Edris Stannus. 1898–2001, British ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Ireland: a founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet Company (1931), which under her direction became the Royal Ballet (1956)
- dead loss — a person, thing, or situation that is completely useless or unprofitable
- deadfalls — Plural form of deadfall.
- deadliest — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlines — Plural form of deadline.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deathless — immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting