10-letter words containing d, o, r, y
- dirty bomb — a nuclear warhead designed to produce a great amount of radioactive debris by use of a fusion core, fission trigger, and casing of uranium-238.
- dirty joke — vulgar piece of humour
- dirty look — face: resentful expression
- dirty pool — unethical, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.
- dirty word — a vulgar or taboo word; obscenity.
- dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
- discursory — of or relating to discourse
- disglorify — to remove from glory
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- dismissory — of or relating to dismission
- disorderly — characterized by disorder; irregular; untidy; confused: a disorderly desk.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- dollar day — a sale day on which retail merchandise is reduced to a dollar or very low price.
- dolorously — In a dolorous manner.
- donkeywork — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donn-byrne — Brian Oswald ("Donn Byrne") 1889–1928, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- donnybrook — an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- door money — admission fee to a place of entertainment or recreation.
- dory skiff — an open boat similar to but smaller than a dory.
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- downwardly — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- droolingly — In a drooling manner or fashion.
- droopingly — In a drooping manner.
- druidology — the study of the religion, customs, and practices of the Druids.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry offset — letterset.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- drying oil — any of a group of oily, organic liquids occurring naturally, as linseed, soybean, or dehydrated castor oil, or synthesized, that when applied as a thin coating absorb atmospheric oxygen, forming a tough, elastic layer.
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dyscontrol — The inability to control one's behavior.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- dysprosody — A disorder in which one or more of the prosodic functions of speech are compromised or eliminated completely.
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- early wood — springwood.
- edo memory — Extended Data Out Dynamic Random Access Memory
- embroidery — The art or pastime of embroidering cloth.
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- endothermy — (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism.
- enforcedly — In a way that is enforced.
- entry word — in book