9-letter words containing c, a, d, y
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- diapyetic — of or pertaining to diapyesis
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
- dictatory — dictatorial
- dilatancy — dilating; expanding.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- domically — in the manner or shape of a dome
- dominancy — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dubitancy — doubt; uncertainty
- dulocracy — rule by slaves.
- duty call — a visit made for reasons of obligation rather than for social reasons
- dynamical — Dynamic.
- dynamitic — relating to dynamite or those who use dynamite for illegal reasons
- dyschezia — Difficult or painful defecation.
- dyscrasia — An abnormal or disordered state of the body or of a bodily part.
- dyscrasic — relating to, resulting from, or suffering from dyscrasia
- dyscratic — having or suffering from dyscrasia
- dysphagic — difficulty in swallowing.
- dysphasic — inability to speak or understand words because of a brain lesion.
- dyspraxic — Of or pertaining to dyspraxia.
- ear candy — Slang. pleasant, melodic pop music.
- ecdysiast — stripper (def 3).
- educatory — educative.
- eye candy — sb, sth attractive
- facundity — (archaic) eloquence; readiness of speech.
- fancy dan — a flashy, ostentatious person, often one who lacks real skill, etc.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- flaccidly — In a flaccid manner.
- forecaddy — caddy who goes ahead of the golfer to point out the ball's location
- gray card — a card of controlled reflectance held near a subject to approximate middle tones and used as a target for an exposure meter.
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
- handcarry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydrazoic — noting or pertaining to hydrazoic acid; triazoic.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
- idiocracy — Government that is based upon abstract theory.
- idiocrasy — idiosyncrasy.
- idyllical — Idyllic.