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11-letter words containing d, a, n, y

  • blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
  • brandy mint — peppermint.
  • brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
  • caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
  • canada lily — a lily, Lilium canadense, of NE North America, with small orange funnel-shaped nodding flowers
  • canada lynx — a North American lynx (Lynx lynx canadensis) with tufted ears and a stubby tail
  • canary seed — birdseed.
  • candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
  • candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
  • candy floss — cotton candy.
  • candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
  • candy-assed — timid or cowardly; sissified.
  • canyon wind — a nocturnal, down-canyon flow of air caused by the cooling of the canyon walls. Compare valley wind.
  • cardinality — the property of possessing a cardinal number
  • cardiodynia — pain in the heart region.
  • chalcedonyx — a variety of chalcedony characterized by alternate stripes of black and white
  • chardonnays — Plural form of chardonnay.
  • chrysomonad — any golden-yellow to brown freshwater algae of the class Chrysomonadales (phylum Chrysophyta), living singly or in colonies; blooms may color the water brown.
  • clindamycin — an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections
  • coadjacency — the state of two or more things being adjacent in experience or thought
  • coadjuvancy — (rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help.
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • command key — (on a computer keyboard) a key used when executing commands
  • commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
  • companywide — Extending throughout a company.
  • conan doyle — Sir Arthur. 1859–1930, British author of detective stories and historical romances and the creator of Sherlock Holmes
  • condolatory — to express sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief (usually followed by with): to condole with a friend whose father has died.
  • condylomata — a wartlike growth on the skin, usually in the region of the anus or genitals.
  • confederacy — A confederacy is a union of states or people who are trying to achieve the same thing.
  • conveyanced — Simple past tense and past participle of conveyance.
  • cordwainery — Shoemaking.
  • countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
  • crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
  • cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
  • cut-and-try — marked by a procedure of trial and error; empirical: Many scientific advances are achieved with a cut-and-try approach.
  • cyanic acid — colourless poisonous volatile liquid acid
  • cyanidation — (metallurgy) The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process.
  • cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
  • cylindrical — Something that is cylindrical is in the shape of a cylinder.
  • cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
  • dactylonomy — The use of one's fingers to express numbers.
  • daemonology — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
  • daffynition — A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
  • daily dozen — gymnastic setting-up exercises (originally twelve) done daily
  • daily grind — everyday work routine
  • daimyo bond — a bearer bond issued in Japan and the eurobond market by the World Bank
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