13-letter words containing a, d, r, y
- daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
- daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
- daily-breader — a commuter.
- dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
- dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
- dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
- dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
- danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
- dare i say it — You use 'dare I say it' when you know that what you are going to say will disappoint or annoy someone.
- data security — the protection of data stored on computers
- day after day — If something happens day after day, it happens every day without stopping.
- daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
- days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
- decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
- dehydrogenase — an enzyme, such as any of the respiratory enzymes, that activates oxidation-reduction reactions by transferring hydrogen from substrate to acceptor
- dehydrogenate — to remove hydrogen from
- demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
- denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
- deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecatorily — In a deprecatory manner.
- dermatography — a treatise or writing concerning the skin
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- determinately — having defined limits; definite.
- deterrability — the quality of being deterrable
- detrimentally — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- diametrically — If you say that two things are diametrically opposed, you are emphasizing that they are completely different from each other.
- diaphototropy — the state of being diaphototropic, turning transversely to the light
- dictatorially — In a dictatorial manner.
- dietary fiber — fiber (def 9).
- dietary fibre — fibrous substances in fruits and vegetables, such as the structural polymers of cell walls, consumption of which aids digestion and is believed to help prevent certain diseases
- digraphically — in a digraphic manner
- digressionary — Serving as a digression.
- dioristically — in a dioristic manner
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directorially — In terms of film direction.
- dirty laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- dirty-laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!