We study the scattering of the light-flavor pseudoscalar mesons (π, K, η) off the groundstate charmed mesons (D, D s ) within chiral effective field theory. The recent lattice simulation results on various scattering lengths and the finite-volume spectra both in the moving and center-of-mass frames, most of which are obtained at unphysical meson masses, are used to constrain the free parameters in our theory. Explicit formulas to include the S-and P -wave mixing to determine the finite-volume energy levels are provided. After a successful reproduction of the lattice data, we perform a chiral extrapolation to predict the quantities with physical meson masses, including phase shifts, inelasticities, resonance pole positions and the corresponding residues from the scattering of the light pseudoscalar and charmed mesons. Chiral effective field theory provides a useful theoretical framework to perform such studies. Many works along this research line have been done by several different groups in the last decade [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. In order to constrain the unknown parameters, one usually needs scattering information as input. However, experimental observables from the scattering of the light pseudoscalar and ground-state charmed mesons, such as phase shifts and inelasticities, are still not available nowadays.Fortunately, lattice QCD provides an alternative way to obtain such kinds of data [24][25][26][27][28][29]. In Ref. [24], the scattering lengths of five scattering channels: isospin-3/2 Dπ, D s π, D s K, isospin-0 DK and isospin-1 DK, are calculated at four different values of unphysical pion (quark) masses. The DK scattering amplitude is obtained indirectly from unitarized chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) with the relevant low-energy constants (LECs) determined from the aforementioned five channels. The direct lattice calculation of DK scattering is performed in Refs. [25][26][27] and the I = 1/2 Dπ scattering length is calculated in lattice QCD in Ref. [29]. In these works, the effects of the coupled channels are ignored. Recently, a sophisticated lattice calculation of the coupled-channel scattering of Dπ, Dη and D sK was presented in Ref. [28], in which a large amount of energy levels in the finite volume are obtained by using many interpolating operators and various moving frames. These lattice data have been extensively used in ChPT studies to constrain the chiral amplitudes [13-16, 19, 20, 22, 24]. However, all of these studies used only a small part of the available lattice data up to now. A more complete data set is expected to be able to determine the chiral amplitudes more precisely. In this work, we perform an extensive study of the light pseudoscalar mesons scattering off the ground-state charmed mesons in unitarized ChPT. All of the 2+1 flavor lattice results, including the finite-volume energy levels and the scattering lengths obtained in Ref. [24][25][26]28], are used to determine the parameters in the unitarized ChPT. Note that the 2-flav...