10-letter words containing a, y, e, r
- day return — A day return is a train or bus ticket which allows you to go somewhere and come back on the same day for a lower price than an ordinary return ticket.
- day sailer — a small sailboat without sleeping accommodations, suitable for short trips.
- day trader — On the stock market, day traders are traders who buy and sell particular securities on the same day.
- daydreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of daydream.
- daydreamer — a reverie indulged in while awake.
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- decay-rate — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- declaredly — known to be; officially
- decrassify — to make (something) less crass
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- defrayable — Capable of being defrayed.
- defrayment — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- degeneracy — If you refer to the behaviour of a group of people as degeneracy, you mean that you think it is shocking, immoral, or disgusting.
- degradedly — in a degraded fashion
- degree day — a day on which university degrees are conferred
- degree-day — one degree of departure, on a single day, of the daily mean temperature from a given standard temperature. Abbreviation: dd.
- dehydrated — (of organisms) deprived of vital water or moisture
- dehydrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrate.
- dehydrator — a person or thing that dehydrates.
- delayering — Delayering is the process of simplifying the administrative structure of a large organization in order to make it more efficient.
- delegatory — of or relating to the delegation or assignment of authority, power, or responsibility.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depravedly — in a depraved manner
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
- desolatory — tending to cause desolation
- destratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- detractory — (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- dextrality — the state or quality of having the right side or its parts or members different from and, usually, more efficient than the left side or its parts or members; right-handedness.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- drainlayer — a person trained to build or repair drains
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreadfully — in a dreadful way: The pain has increased dreadfully.
- dreadingly — With dread.
- dreamingly — In a dreamy manner.
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle
- 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.
- dry valley — a valley originally produced by running water but now waterless
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.