10-letter words containing d, r, a, y
- drury lane — a street in London, England, formerly notable for its theaters, named after the house Sir William Drury built there in the reign of Henry VIII.
- dry valley — a valley originally produced by running water but now waterless
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- dvd player — machine: plays DVDs
- dwarfishly — In a dwarfish manner.
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- dysarthria — Difficult or unclear articulation of speech that is otherwise linguistically normal.
- dysarthric — Afflicted with, or pertaining to, dysarthria.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysgraphia — inability to write, caused by cerebral lesion.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dyspractic — relating to or affected by dyspraxia
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- early bird — a person who rises at an early hour.
- early days — initial stages
- early wood — springwood.
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- elder days — The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- empire day — a former holiday celebrated in the British Empire on May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday
- enlargedly — in an enlarged manner
- errand boy — boy who carries messages, go-between
- faldistory — a bishop's seat or throne
- field army — army (def 2).
- first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- fraidy-cat — a timid, easily frightened person: often used by children.
- fraudfully — in a fraudful manner
- freddy mac — (in the US) an informal name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a private company that buys and sells mortgage debt
- from day 1 — from the very beginning
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gal friday — Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- gendarmery — Alternative spelling of gendarmerie.
- glory days — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- goliardery — one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
- goods yard — a railway freight yard.
- graduality — The state or degree of being gradual.
- grand jury — a jury, at common law, of 12 to 23 persons, designated to inquire into alleged violations of the law in order to ascertain whether the evidence is sufficient to warrant trial.
- granddaddy — grandfather.
- grandpappy — grandfather.
- graveyards — Plural form of graveyard.
- graybeards — Plural form of graybeard.
- grey alder — a variety of alder (Alnus incana) with grey bark, common in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere
- grey nomad — any elderly retired person who spends time travelling around the country in a mobile home