10-letter words containing d, e, l, a, y
- dreamingly — In a dreamy manner.
- drury lane — a street in London, England, formerly notable for its theaters, named after the house Sir William Drury built there in the reign of Henry VIII.
- dry valley — a valley originally produced by running water but now waterless
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- dvd player — machine: plays DVDs
- dyeability — Quality or degree of being dyeable.
- eagle-eyed — having keen vision.
- early bird — a person who rises at an early hour.
- early days — initial stages
- early wood — springwood.
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
- elder days — The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm.
- enlargedly — in an enlarged manner
- epididymal — Of, in or pertaining to the epididymis, the tube in male mammals which connects the efferent ducts from the rear of each testicle to its vas deferens.
- fadelessly — in a fadeless manner
- field army — army (def 2).
- galaxywide — Throughout a galaxy.
- gentlelady — A polite form of a address for a woman, used especially to a congresswoman during a congressional debate.
- gladsomely — (archaic) gladly.
- goliardery — one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
- grey alder — a variety of alder (Alnus incana) with grey bark, common in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- headlessly — In a headless way.
- henry dale — Sir Henry Hallett [hal-it] /ˈhæl ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1875–1968, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.
- hyalinized — to become hyaline.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- ideal type — a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
- indelicacy — the quality or condition of being indelicate.
- isolatedly — separated from other persons or things; alone; solitary.
- lady apple — a small, yellow apple with a red blush, grown as a specialty variety, and used for eating and in commercial canning.
- ladybeetle — ladybug.
- ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
- ladykiller — A charming man who is very attractive to women.
- lardy cake — a rich sweet cake made of bread dough, lard, sugar, and dried fruit
- latter-day — of a later or following period: latter-day pioneers.
- laundrymen — Plural form of laundryman.
- lay reader — a layperson authorized by a bishop to conduct certain parts of a service.
- lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
- leftwardly — leftwards
- leyden jar — a device for storing electric charge, consisting essentially of a glass jar lined inside and outside, for about two-thirds of its height, with tinfoil.
- lumberyard — a yard where lumber is stored for sale.
- lymphedema — the accumulation of lymph in soft tissue with accompanying swelling, often of the extremities: sometimes caused by inflammation, obstruction, or removal of lymph channels.