9-letter words containing d, o, r, y
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- deceptory — inclined to deceive
- decretory — characterized by making an absolute and final decision
- defensory — (archaic) Tending to defend; defensive.
- deformity — A deformity is a part of someone's body which is not the normal shape because of injury or illness, or because they were born this way.
- deglorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- dejectory — tending to cast down
- democracy — A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- democrazy — A democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.
- demoparty — (demoscene) A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.
- depletory — Serving to deplete.
- destroyed — to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
- destroyer — A destroyer is a small, heavily armed warship.
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- deviatory — Tending to deviate.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- dictatory — dictatorial
- dihydroxy — (of a molecule) containing two hydroxyl groups.
- dimissory — dismissing or giving permission to depart.
- directory — a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
- dirty dog — a despicable person
- discovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
- disobeyer — One who disobeys.
- ditionary — (obsolete) A subject; a tributary.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- dogberrys — a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
- dogmatory — dogmatic
- dollybird — an attractive and fashionable girl, esp one who is considered to be unintelligent
- doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- dormitory — a building, as at a college, containing a number of private or semiprivate rooms for residents, usually along with common bathroom facilities and recreation areas.
- dosimetry — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- dove grey — a brownish-grey colour
- dragonfly — any of numerous stout-bodied, nonstinging insects of the order Odonata (suborder Anisoptera), the species of which prey on mosquitoes and other insects and are distinguished from the damselflies by having the wings outstretched rather than folded when at rest.
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dromedary — the single-humped camel, Camelus dromedarius, of Arabia and northern Africa.
- droningly — With a droning sound.
- dronishly — in a droning manner
- drop away — become fewer
- dry goods — fabrics, clothing
- dry point — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- dry slope — an artificial ski slope used for tuition and practice
- dry stock — cattle that are raised for meat
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- dryomorph — any member of the extinct genus Dryopithecus.