9-letter words that end in ad
- roundhead — a member or adherent of the Parliamentarians or Puritan party during the civil wars of the 17th century (so called in derision by the Cavaliers because they wore their hair cut short).
- rye bread — bread that is made either entirely or partly from rye flour, often with caraway seeds.
- scaldhead — a person's scalp that is diseased with ringworm or another similar affliction
- scarehead — a headline in exceptionally large type. Compare screamer (def 4).
- screwhead — the head or top of a screw having a slot for the end of a screwdriver.
- sea bread — ship biscuit; hardtack.
- seminomad — a person living a partly nomadic life; a semi-nomadic person
- sheephead — a large California food fish, Semicossyphus pulcher, of the wrasse family.
- shewbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
- shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
- showbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
- side road — small street leading off larger road
- silk road — ancient trade route extending from China to the Mediterranean
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- skid road — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- skim-read — to read quickly and superficially, in order to pick up the important or significant details
- slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
- smackhead — a person who is addicted to heroin
- snakehead — checkered lily.
- snow-clad — covered with snow.
- spearhead — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- speedread — to read (something) very quickly
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- statfarad — the electrostatic unit of capacitance, equivalent to 1.1126 × 10 −12 farad and equal to the capacitance of a condenser in which one statcoulomb is transferred from one conductor of the condenser to the other per volt of potential difference between the conductors.
- steelhead — a silvery rainbow trout that migrates to the sea before returning to fresh water to spawn.
- stop bead — a strip of molding along the inside of a window frame for holding a sliding sash.
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- superroad — an extremely large road
- swellhead — a vain or arrogant person.
- tape head — a device which converts electrical signals to magnetic fluctuations and back again; used in tape recorders
- thickhead — a stupid person; blockhead.
- to be had — If you have been had, someone has tricked you, for example by selling you something at too high a price.
- toll road — a road or highway on which a toll is exacted.
- tote road — an unpaved road for carrying supplies, as to a camp or clearing.
- towelhead — an offensive term for someone who wears a turban
- trailhead — the point where a trail starts.
- trainload — the cargo or passenger capacity of a train.
- tree toad — tree frog.
- truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
- underclad — not wearing enough clothes
- undergrad — an undergraduate.
- underload — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- upanishad — any of a class of speculative prose treatises composed between the 8th and 6th centuries b.c. and first written a.d. c1300: they represent a philosophical development beyond the Vedas, having as their principal message the unity of Brahman and Atman.
- volgograd — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga River: battles in World War II, September 1942–February 1943.
- volksraad — the legislative assembly of the Boer republics in South Africa during the latter half of the 19th century
- wagonload — the load carried by a wagon.
- wash load — a load of washing which is put in a washing machine
- waterhead — the source of a river or stream.
- wazirabad — Balkh.
- well-read — having read extensively (sometimes followed by in): well-read in oceanography.