11-letter words containing a, c, r, y
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- dactylogram — a fingerprint
- daddy track — a career path for men who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- declamatory — A declamatory phrase, statement, or way of speaking is dramatic and confident.
- declaratory — (of a statute) stating the existing law on a particular subject; explanatory
- declinatory — a plea that has the aim of demonstrating that the accused is exempt from legal authority and punishment
- demonocracy — power of or rule by demons
- deprecatory — expressing disapproval; protesting
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
- discordancy — discordance (defs 1–3).
- discrepancy — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- dithyrambic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
- doctrinally — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- domiciliary — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- drastically — acting with force or violence; violent.
- dry cleaner — a business that dry-cleans garments, draperies, etc.
- dry compass — a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.
- dry-cleanse — to dry-clean.
- dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
- dynamic ram — dynamic random-access memory
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- edificatory — intended or serving to edify.
- ejaculatory — Of or pertaining to ejaculation.
- electorally — In an electoral manner.
- elucidatory — Serving to elucidate.
- embracingly — In an embracing manner.
- empirically — Based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.
- entranceway — A way into a place or thing, esp. a doorway or corridor at the entrance to a building.
- epicaricacy — (rare) Rejoicing at or deriving pleasure from the misfortunes of others.
- equity card — a card proving membership of an actors' trade union
- ergatocracy — Government by the workers.
- eristically — In an eristic manner.
- erratically — In an erratic manner; unsteadily or randomly, unpredictably.
- escharotomy — A surgical procedure in which an incision is made through eschar to expose the fatty tissue below.
- exclamatory — Of or relating to a sudden cry or remark, especially one expressing surprise, anger, or pain.
- exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
- exorbitancy — Alternative form of exorbitance.
- expiscatory — acting to expiscate; tending to expiscate
- explicatory — Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
- eye-catcher — something that especially attracts one's attention
- factorially — Mathematics. the product of a given positive integer multiplied by all lesser positive integers: The quantity four factorial (4!) = 4 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 2 ⋅ 1 = 24. Symbol: n!, where n is the given integer.