9-letter words containing d, r, a, y
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- day-liner — a train, boat, etc., having a regularly scheduled route during daylight hours.
- day-trade — to buy and sell a listed security or commodity on the same day, usually on margin, for a quick profit.
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- daydreams — Plural form of daydream.
- daydreamy — Inclined to daydream; scatterbrained or idealistic.
- 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
- dayspring — the dawn
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- deary me! — an exclamation of surprise or dismay
- death ray — an imaginary ray capable of killing
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- defraying — Present participle of defray.
- dehydrate — When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.
- delta ray — a particle, esp an electron, ejected from matter by ionizing radiation
- 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.
- depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
- derivably — in a way that is able to be derived
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- deviatory — Tending to deviate.
- devil ray — manta.
- devil-ray — manta.
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dictatory — dictatorial
- dietarily — of or relating to diet: a dietary cure.
- dignitary — a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church.
- dihydrate — a hydrate that contains two molecules of water, as potassium sulfite, K 2 SO 3 ⋅2H 2 O.
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- dipyramid — bipyramid.
- dirty war — a war conducted by the military or secret police of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the regime's use of kidnapping, torture, and murder, with members of the civilian population often the victims.
- disarrays — Plural form of disarray.
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- dissarray — Misspelling of disarray.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- ditionary — (obsolete) A subject; a tributary.
- diurnally — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- dogmatory — dogmatic
- doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- 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.