9-letter words containing s, o, l, d
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- cloudless — If the sky is cloudless, there are no clouds in it.
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- cnidocils — Plural form of cnidocil.
- 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 cuts — Cold cuts are thin slices of cooked meat which are served cold.
- cold fish — If you say that someone is a cold fish, you think that they are unfriendly and unemotional.
- cold shut — A cold shut is a fault in the surface of a piece of metal caused by two streams of molten metal not joining properly when the piece is being cast.
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold sore — Cold sores are small sore spots that sometimes appear on or near someone's lips and nose when they have a cold.
- cold spot — an area where house prices are stable and properties are slow to sell
- coldhouse — an unheated greenhouse
- coldsleep — A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- colletids — Plural form of colletid.
- colliders — Plural form of collider.
- colonised — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- concludes — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- consulted — to seek advice or information from; ask guidance from: Consult your lawyer before signing the contract.
- convulsed — to shake violently; agitate.
- copyholds — Plural form of copyhold.
- corydalis — any erect or climbing plant of the N temperate genus Corydalis, having finely-lobed leaves and spurred yellow or pinkish flowers: family Fumariaceae
- cotswolds — a range of low hills in SW England, mainly in Gloucestershire: formerly a centre of the wool industry
- counseled — advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- credulous — If you describe someone as credulous, you have a low opinion of them because they are too ready to believe what people tell them and are easily deceived.
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- d-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- daffodils — Plural form of daffodil.
- 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)
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- 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
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decouples — Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deisolate — to remove from isolation.
- del sarto — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- deletions — Plural form of deletion.
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- delirious — Someone who is delirious is unable to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way, usually because they are very ill and have a fever.