12-letter words containing d, r, a, y
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- d'oyly carte — Richard. 1844–1901, British impresario noted for his productions of the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- dairy cattle — cows raised mainly for their milk
- dairy farmer — a farmer who has a herd producing milk
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- daredeviltry — reckless daring; venturesome boldness.
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- day-tripping — to travel as a day-tripper.
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.
- decay series — a succession of elements initiated in the radioactive decay of a parent, as thorium or uranium, each of which decays into the next until a stable element, usually lead, is produced.
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- deep therapy — radiotherapy with very penetrating short-wave radiation
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
- delay screen — (in a cathode-ray tube) a sensitized screen with a phosphorescent coating that retains the image formed by the electron beam for an appreciable time.
- delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
- deliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivatively — derived.
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- dextrogyrate — having dextrorotation
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- dicarboxylic — containing two carboxyl groups in the molecule
- dicarpellary — having two carpels
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).