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

  • indeterminably — In an indeterminable manner.
  • 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
  • integrated day — teaching that is organized around themes, rather than separate subjects
  • interarytenoid — pertaining to either of two small cartilages on top of the cricoid cartilage at the upper, back part of the larynx.
  • intermediately — being, situated, or acting between two points, stages, things, persons, etc.: the intermediate steps in a procedure.
  • intermediatory — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
  • interrelatedly — in an interrelated manner
  • intracardially — in an intracardial manner
  • intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
  • introductorily — By way of introduction.
  • irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • 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.
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • 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
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
  • liquid crystal — a liquid having certain crystalline characteristics, especially different optical properties in different directions when exposed to an electric field.
  • maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
  • maturity yield — Finance. the rate of return on a bond expressed as a percentage that accounts for the difference between the interest earned based on current market value and that earned if the bond is held to maturity.
  • merthyr tydfil — an administrative district in Mid Glamorgan, in S Wales. 43 sq. mi. (113 sq. km).
  • 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
  • morbid obesity — a state of obesity in which the body mass index is between 40 and 49.9 kg/m2
  • morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
  • motor industry — the manufacturers of cars viewed as a sector
  • mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
  • myocardiopathy — (pathology) Any disease of the myocardium.
  • neurodiversity — the variation and differences in neurological structure and function that exist among human beings, especially when viewed as being normal and natural rather than pathological: recognizing autism as an example of neurodiversity.
  • non-depository — a place where something is deposited or stored, as for safekeeping: the night depository of a bank.
  • north tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 190 800 (2003 est). Area: 84 sq km (32 sq miles)
  • old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
  • ordinary point — Mathematics. a point in a domain in which a given function of a complex variable is analytic.
  • ordinary stock — British. common stock.
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • paradoxicality — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
  • partially deaf — suffering from hearing loss; partly deaf
  • partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • periodontology — periodontics.
  • pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
  • poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
  • polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
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