11-letter words containing a, n, y, d
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- payday loan — A payday loan is a small personal cash loan at a very high interest rate, secured by the borrower's next paycheck.
- pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
- pioneer day — a legal holiday in Utah on July 24 to commemorate Brigham Young's founding of Salt Lake City in 1847.
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- polling day — date of election voting
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quotidianly — daily: a quotidian report.
- rajahmundry — a city in Andhra Pradesh state, SE India, on the Godavari River.
- rally round — show solidarity
- ready money — money that is in hand or may be obtained quickly or easily; cash.
- redundantly — characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
- referendary — a referee who resolves disputes or makes decisions
- rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhythm band — a collection of simple percussion instruments used especially with piano accompaniment to teach musical rhythm.
- rudimentary — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- saint's day — a day of celebration commemorating a particular saint.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- spiny-rayed — spiny-finned.
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- staphylinid — rove beetle.
- stipendiary — receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
- sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
- sunday baby — an illegitimate child.
- sunday best — Sunday clothes.