10-letter words containing a, n, y, d
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- disneyland — any large, bustling place noted for its colorful attractions: The new shopping center has become an after-hours Disneyland.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- displaying — to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
- dissonancy — dissonance.
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- dominantly — ruling, governing, or controlling; having or exerting authority or influence: dominant in the chain of command.
- doomsaying — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- downplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of downplay.
- downwardly — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- draggingly — In a way that drags; with a dragging motion.
- drainlayer — a person trained to build or repair drains
- drawlingly — Speaking with a drawl.
- dreadingly — With dread.
- dreamingly — In a dreamy manner.
- drury lane — a street in London, England, formerly notable for its theaters, named after the house Sir William Drury built there in the reign of Henry VIII.
- dynamicist — a person who investigates and researches dynamics
- dynamicity — The condition of being dynamic.
- dynamiting — Present participle of dynamite.
- dynamitism — The work of dynamiters.
- dyskinesia — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- enlargedly — in an enlarged manner
- ependymoma — (medicine) A tumour of the central nervous system.
- errand boy — boy who carries messages, go-between
- fancy dive — any of the series of specified dives executed in fancy diving, as the jackknife or gainer.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- gendarmery — Alternative spelling of gendarmerie.
- gentlelady — A polite form of a address for a woman, used especially to a congresswoman during a congressional debate.
- grand jury — a jury, at common law, of 12 to 23 persons, designated to inquire into alleged violations of the law in order to ascertain whether the evidence is sufficient to warrant trial.
- granddaddy — grandfather.
- grandpappy — grandfather.
- grey nomad — any elderly retired person who spends time travelling around the country in a mobile home
- gynandrism — hermaphroditism.
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- hand-carry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- hand-spray — an attachment to a shower, sink unit, etc, that is not fixed in place but can instead be moved in order to aid washing
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- handy-andy — a handyman.
- handy-pack — a pack of a product that is useful or convenient in some way, because, for example, it is easy to transport, or because it contains a variety of flavours, colours, etc
- handywoman — Female equivalent of handyman.
- handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
- hard candy — candy, often fruit flavored, made by boiling together sugar and corn syrup.
- hard money — (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign
- head money — a tax of so much per head or person.
- henry dale — Sir Henry Hallett [hal-it] /ˈhæl ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1875–1968, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).