11-letter words containing d, a, y, s, c
- dyspathetic — characterized by dyspathy
- dyspeptical — (archaic) dyspeptic.
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- fancy goods — small decorative gifts; knick-knacks
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
- increasedly — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- isocyanides — Plural form of isocyanide.
- jackson day — January 8, a holiday commemorating Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815: a legal holiday in Louisiana.
- myocarditis — inflammation of the myocardium.
- pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
- pasty-faced — having a pale, unhealthy, sallow complexion: an awkward, pasty-faced youth.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- scaredy cat — fraidy-cat.
- scaredy-cat — fraidy-cat.
- scatteredly — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- strathclyde — a region in SW Scotland. 5300 sq. mi. (13,727 sq. km).
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
- sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
- switch yard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- sylvic acid — abietic acid.
- syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
- syndicalism — a form or development of trade unionism, originating in France, that aims at the possession of the means of production and distribution, and ultimately at the control of society, by federated bodies of industrial workers, and that seeks to realize its purposes through general strikes, terrorism, sabotage, etc.
- syndication — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- synodically — by the authority of a synod
- urodynamics — the study and measurement of the flow of urine in the urinary tract
- xyridaceous — (of a plant) pertaining to or belonging to the order Xyrideae
- zygodactyls — Plural form of zygodactyl.