9-letter words containing d, a, y, o
- parodying — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- pay board — a former government agency that controlled prices and wages
- payloader — a heavy, wheeled vehicle with a large, movable blade or scoop at the front.
- payrolled — a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
- pentapody — a measure consisting of five feet.
- play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- pododynia — pain in the sole of the foot.
- polyamide — a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the amide group –CONH–.
- polyandry — the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time. Compare monandry (def 1).
- poppy day — Remembrance Day
- poppyhead — a finial or other ornament, often richly carved, as the top of the upright end of a bench or pew.
- portrayed — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- predatory — Zoology. preying upon other organisms for food.
- pyramidon — a pedal organ stop made of wooden pipes in the shape of an inverted pyramid
- pyridoxal — a naturally occurring derivative of pyridoxine that is a precursor of a coenzyme (pyridoxal phosphate) involved in several enzymic reactions. Formula: (CH2OH)(CHO)C5HN(OH)(CH3)
- radectomy — excision of part or all of the root of a tooth.
- radiology — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
- radiosity — (graphics) A method for rendering a view of a three-dimensional scene that provides realistic lighting effects, such as interobject reflections and color bleeding. Radiosity methods are computationally intense, due to the use of linear systems of equations and the spatial complexity of large scenes.
- read-only — of or relating to files or memory that can be read but cannot normally be changed.
- roundelay — a song in which a phrase, line, or the like, is continually repeated.
- salty dog — a cocktail of gin or vodka and grapefruit juice, traditionally served in a salt-rimmed glass.
- samoyedic — of or relating to the Samoyed people or languages.
- sand goby — a species of goby, (Pomatoschistus minutus), that lives in European sandy waters
- sarvodaya — (in India) economic and social development and improvement of a community as a whole
- sassywood — (in Liberia) a trial by ordeal, such as being forced to drink poison
- schoolday — a day for going to school
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- shadowily — in a shadowy way or manner
- short-day — requiring a short photoperiod.
- solar day — Astronomy. the time interval between two successive transits by the sun of the meridian directly opposite that of the observer; the 24-hour interval from one midnight to the following midnight.
- staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- synodical — of a synod; synodal
- synodsman — a member of a synod
- tabbyhood — spinsterhood
- tetrapody — a measure consisting of four feet.
- thylakoid — a flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis, in plants and algae occurring in interconnected stacks constituting a granum of the chloroplast, and in other photosynthesizing organisms occurring either singly or as part of the cell membrane or other structure.
- thyroidal — of or relating to the thyroid gland
- typhoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- unalloyed — If you describe a feeling such as happiness or relief as unalloyed, you are emphasizing that it is a strong feeling and no other feeling is involved.
- unannoyed — not annoyed, bothered, or inconvenienced
- union day — a legal holiday in the Republic of South Africa commemorating the founding of the country on May 31, 1910.
- videoplay — teleplay.
- waterbody — Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
- woman-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy; based on a standard number of woman-hours in a day of work.
- wyandotte — a city in SE Michigan, on the Detroit River.
- yankeedom — the region inhabited by Yankees.