10-letter words containing d, e, n, y, s
- lundy isle — an island at the mouth of the Bristol Channel, off Devon, SW England: historic refuge for pirates and smugglers. 1.5 sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
- many-sided — having many sides.
- mcreynolds — James Clark, 1862–1946, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1914–41.
- mind's eye — the hypothetical site of visual recollection or imagination: In her mind's eye she saw the city as it had been in Caesar's time.
- mindlessly — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- mindszenty — Joseph (Joseph Pehm) 1892–1975, Hungarian Roman Catholic clergyman: primate of Hungary 1945–74.
- mistrayned — deluded or incorrectly trained
- needlessly — unnecessary; not needed or wanted: a needless waste of food.
- nose candy — cocaine.
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
- predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- resignedly — submissive or acquiescent.
- sandpapery — of or suggesting the grating sound of sandpaper rubbing against wood or the rough texture of sandpaper.
- seducingly — in a seducing manner
- seed money — capital for the initial stages of a new business or other enterprise, especially for the initial operating costs.
- selenodesy — the branch of astronomy that deals with the measurement of the moon's surface and its gravitational field.
- semidrying — not drying completely
- seminudity — partial nudity; the state of being partly nude
- side money — (in a poker game) the money or chips in a side pot.
- slant-eyed — having eyes with epicanthic folds.
- spin-dryer — to remove moisture from (laundry) by centrifugal force, as in an automatic washing machine.
- splendidly — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
- squinteyed — squinting
- stand easy — a command to soldiers standing at ease that they may relax further
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
- sunny side — the part upon which sunlight falls: the sunny side of the house.
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- synderesis — innate knowledge of the basic principles of morality.
- syndicated — 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.
- synecdoche — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- syneidesis — the function of consciousness concerned with making judgement on performed acts
- unanalysed — not yet analysed or examined
- unbiasedly — not biased or prejudiced; fair; impartial.
- understory — the shrubs and plants growing beneath the main canopy of a forest.
- understudy — to learn (a role) in order to replace the regular actor or actress when necessary.
- undismayed — to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
- unsteadily — not steady or firm; unstable; shaky: an unsteady hand.
- unsurveyed — not surveyed; that has not been surveyed or thoroughly examined; not having been subjected to a survey
- wednesdays — on or during Wednesdays; every Wednesday.
- windlessly — Without any wind.
- yes and no — You say yes and no in reply to a question when you cannot give a definite answer, because in some ways the answer is yes and in other ways the answer is no.