9-letter words containing ard
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- kabardian — a Circassian language of the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Republic.
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- kickboard — a buoyant, usually small board that is used to support the arms of a swimmer, used chiefly in practicing kicking movements.
- kiteboard — A specialized light weight wakeboard used for kiteboarding.
- kneeboard — a short board for surfing or water-skiing in a kneeling position.
- 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.
- laggardly — in the manner of a laggard.
- landboard — a narrow board, with wheels larger than those on a skateboard, usually ridden while standing
- landwards — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- langobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- lardasses — Plural form of lardass.
- leaf lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leaf-lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leeboards — Plural form of leeboard.
- leewardly — (of a ship) tending to fall to leeward
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
- leotarded — Clad in a leotard.
- lifeguard — an expert swimmer employed, as at a beach or pool, to protect bathers from drowning or other accidents and dangers.
- lombardia — a region of N central Italy, bordering on the Alps: dominated by prosperous lordships and city-states during the Middle Ages; later ruled by Spain and then by Austria before becoming part of Italy in 1859; intensively cultivated and in parts highly industrialized. Pop: 9 108 645 (2003 est). Area: 23 804 sq km (9284 sq miles)
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- long card — a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- longboard — A type of long surfboard.
- longobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
- low board — a diving board 1 meter (3.2 feet) above the water.
- main yard — a yard for a square mainsail.
- mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
- mansarded — Having a mansard roof.
- maquisard — maquis (def 2).
- mass card — a card stating that a Mass will be said, especially for a deceased person, and sent by the donor, as to the family of the deceased.
- microcard — A small card bearing a microreproduction of text, resembling the microfiche format but on cardboard rather than photographic film.
- millboard — a strong, thick pasteboard used to make book covers.
- misregard — (obsolete) Wrong understanding; misconstruction.
- moldboard — the curved metal plate in a plow that turns over the earth from the furrow.
- monoboard — Synonym of monoski.
- moonwards — towards the moon
- mooseyard — an area of trodden snow where moose spend the winter
- mopboards — Plural form of mopboard.
- mudguards — Plural form of mudguard.
- myocardia — the muscular substance of the heart.
- nameboard — a signboard that identifies a place or object.
- navy yard — a government dockyard where naval ships are built, repaired, and fitted out, and naval supplies and munitions are laid up.
- newsboard — bulletin board.
- niggardly — reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
- nightward — heading towards night, heading westwards
- northward — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- noseguard — middle guard.