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14-letter words containing d, i, r, t, y, o

  • disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
  • down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • dramatic irony — irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • ethyl chloride — a colorless liquid, C2H5Cl, prepared by heating ethyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride in the presence of zinc chloride: used in preparing tetraethyl lead and ethyl cellulose, and as a local anesthetic
  • firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
  • firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
  • forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
  • geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
  • hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
  • hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
  • hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
  • hydrolytically — By means of hydrolysis.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
  • hydropathicity — (chemistry) The relative hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity of a compound, especially of an amino acid residue in a protein.
  • hydrophilicity — (uncountable) The condition of being hydrophilic.
  • hydrophobicity — (chemistry, uncountable) The condition of being hydrophobic.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hydroscopicity — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
  • hydroxyapatite — a mineral, Ca 10 (PO 4) 6 OH 2 , that is the principal storage form of calcium and phosphorus in bone.
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
  • hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
  • hypothyroidism — deficient activity of the thyroid gland.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indian country — (especially during the U.S. westward migration) any region where one was likely to encounter Indians, especially hostile Indians.
  • induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
  • infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
  • interarytenoid — pertaining to either of two small cartilages on top of the cricoid cartilage at the upper, back part of the larynx.
  • intermediatory — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
  • introductorily — By way of introduction.
  • kitty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • liberty bodice — a sleeveless vest-like undergarment made from thick cotton and covering the upper part of the body, formerly worn esp by young children
  • methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
  • morbid anatomy — the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues
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