11-letter words containing d, a, y, o
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
- body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
- bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
- candy floss — cotton candy.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- canyon wind — a nocturnal, down-canyon flow of air caused by the cooling of the canyon walls. Compare valley wind.
- cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
- cardiodynia — pain in the heart region.
- cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
- cathode ray — a flow of electrons emanating from a cathode in a vacuum tube and focused into a narrow beam.
- chalcedonyx — a variety of chalcedony characterized by alternate stripes of black and white
- chardonnays — Plural form of chardonnay.
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- 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.
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- coadjacency — the state of two or more things being adjacent in experience or thought
- coadjuvancy — (rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help.
- codicillary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a codicil.
- colloidally — in the manner of a colloid
- combat duty — active service
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- comedically — from a comedic point of view or in a comedic manner
- 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.
- compactedly — in a compacted manner
- 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.
- copyreaders — Plural form of copyreader.
- 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.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- 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.
- crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
- 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
- cycadaceous — belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.