10-letter words containing d, e, s, y
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
- polydeuces — Greek name of Pollux.
- poppy seed — seed of the poppy plant, used as an ingredient or topping for breads, rolls, cakes, and cookies.
- predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- presumedly — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- pseudo-tty — (operating system) Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
- pseudology — lying considered as an art.
- psyched up — psychologically prepared
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- reservedly — kept or set apart for some particular use or purpose.
- residually — in a residual manner.
- resignedly — submissive or acquiescent.
- resolidify — to (cause to) become solid again
- reversedly — in a reversed way or manner
- sage derby — a green-and-white Derby cheese flavoured with sage
- sandpapery — of or suggesting the grating sound of sandpaper rubbing against wood or the rough texture of sandpaper.
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- seducingly — in a seducing manner
- sedulously — diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.
- 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.
- self-study — the study of something by oneself, as through books, records, etc., without direct supervision or attendance in a class: She learned to read German by self-study.
- semidrying — not drying completely
- seminudity — partial nudity; the state of being partly nude
- sharp-eyed — having keen sight or perception.
- side money — (in a poker game) the money or chips in a side pot.
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- slant-eyed — having eyes with epicanthic folds.
- sleepyhead — a sleepy person.
- speech day — In some British schools, speech day is a day, usually at the end of the school year, when prizes are presented to pupils and speeches are made by guest speakers and the head teacher.
- speedfully — in a quick or effective manner
- spider fly — an artificial fly having a hackle body, little or no tail, no wings, and unusually long legs, dressed to resemble a spider.
- 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
- stake body — an open truck body having a platform with sockets at the edge into which upright stakes may be placed to form a fence around a load.
- stalk-eyed — having the eyes located on pedicels, as some crustaceans and dipterans.
- stand easy — a command to soldiers standing at ease that they may relax further
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- stem duchy — (in medieval Germany) any of the independent duchies corresponding in part to areas of tribal settlement and preserving some elements of tribal social structure.
- 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.
- supposedly — assumed as true, regardless of fact; hypothetical: a supposed case.
- swaybacked — having the back sagged to an unusual degree; having a sway-back.
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.