10-letter words containing d, r, a, y
- greyheaded — having grey hair
- guard duty — a military assignment involving watching over or protecting a person or place or supervising prisoners.
- guy friday — a man 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.
- gynandrism — hermaphroditism.
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- half-hardy — having moderate resistance to cold temperatures.
- hamadryads — Plural form of hamadryad.
- hand-carry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- hand-spray — an attachment to a shower, sink unit, etc, that is not fixed in place but can instead be moved in order to aid washing
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- hard candy — candy, often fruit flavored, made by boiling together sugar and corn syrup.
- hard money — (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign
- hard yards — a great deal of effort or hard work, esp in playing a sport
- hardwarily — /hard-weir'*-lee/ In a way pertaining to hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective "hardwary" is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
- hazard pay — danger money
- head rhyme — beginning rhyme.
- henry dale — Sir Henry Hallett [hal-it] /ˈhæl ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1875–1968, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- hybrid car — vehicle with combined power source
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hydra code — (humour, programming) Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydrically — in a hydric manner; in a manner using water or moisture
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydrocoral — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydrograph — a graph of the water level or rate of flow of a body of water as a function of time, showing the seasonal change.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- hydromancy — divination by means of the motions or appearance of water.
- hydromania — an excessive craving or love for water
- hydropathy — the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
- hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hydrorhiza — the rootlike base of a hydroid colony, by which it is attached to the substratum.
- hydrosomal — of or relating to a hydrosome
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hydrostats — Plural form of hydrostat.
- hydrotaxis — oriented movement toward or away from water.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hydrozoans — Plural form of hydrozoan.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypermedia — hypertext