9-letter words containing s, o, d, l, a
- lodestars — Plural form of lodestar.
- lookaside — (computing) The technique of searching for something in a precalculated cache before attempting a more time-consuming search elsewhere.
- loosehead — (rugby) prop who plays on the left hand side of the front row of the scrum.
- lotusland — A place or state concerned solely with, or providing, idle pleasure and luxury.
- madonsela — Thuli (ˈtʊlɪ). born 1962, South African advocate; in her term as Public Protector (2009–16) she was noted for exposing political corruption
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- mandolins — Plural form of mandolin.
- manifolds — Plural form of manifold.
- marigolds — Plural form of marigold.
- mastoidal — Mastoid.
- middorsal — located in the middle of the dorsum or back
- misloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misload.
- modulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of modulate.
- mold wash — a coating applied in liquid form to walls of a mold cavity.
- moorlands — Plural form of moorland.
- moralised — Simple past tense and past participle of moralise.
- odalisque — a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially in that of the sultan of Turkey.
- offsaddle — (transitive, chiefly, South Africa) To unsaddle; remove the saddle from.
- oil sands — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- old saxon — the Saxon dialect of Low German in use before c1100. Abbreviation: OS.
- old squaw — a sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, of arctic and subarctic regions.
- old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
- oldcastle — Sir John (Lord Cobham) 1377–1417, English martyr: leader of a Lollard conspiracy; executed for treason and heresy; model for Shakespeare's Falstaff.
- oldsquaws — Plural form of oldsquaw.
- oleanders — Plural form of oleander.
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- opalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of opalesce.
- osculated — Simple past tense and past participle of osculate.
- outlasted — to endure or last longer than: The pyramids outlasted the civilization that built them.
- outsailed — Simple past tense and past participle of outsail.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- palladous — of or containing bivalent palladium.
- parasoled — having a parasol
- pasodoble — fast modern ballroom dance
- pelopidas — died 364 b.c, Greek general and statesman of Thebes.
- plasmodia — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polaroids — Polaroid sunglasses
- prosodial — of or relating to prosody
- rascaldom — the domain of rascals, a group of rascals
- rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
- saddlebow — the arched front part of a saddle or saddletree.
- sailboard — a long board, usually of Plexiglas, used for windsurfing, having a mount for a sail, a daggerboard, and a small skeg.
- salad oil — an oil used in salad dressing, especially olive oil or a vegetable oil, as from sesame, corn, or safflower.
- salmonoid — resembling a salmon.
- salt dome — a domelike rock structure that is formed beneath the earth's surface by the upward movement of a mass of salt, may reach thousands of feet in vertical extent, and is more or less circular in plan: often associated with oil and gas pools.
- salty dog — a cocktail of gin or vodka and grapefruit juice, traditionally served in a salt-rimmed glass.
- sapodilla — a large evergreen tree, Manilkara zapota, of tropical America, bearing an edible fruit and yielding chicle. Compare sapodilla family.