9-letter words containing d, r, a, y
- drake fly — mayfly (def 2).
- draw away — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw play — draw (def 54).
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- drip tray — a tray, sometimes with a slotted cover, designed to catch drips, as under a beer tap, sump, plant pot, etc
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- dromedary — the single-humped camel, Camelus dromedarius, of Arabia and northern Africa.
- drop away — become fewer
- dry basis — The dry basis is a measure of how much water is in a solid, which is expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry solid.
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- dry steam — steam that does not contain droplets of water
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dryasdust — a dull, pedantic person
- drysalter — a dealer in dry chemicals and dyes.
- drywalled — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- drywaller — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- dulocracy — rule by slaves.
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- duodenary — duodecimal.
- dynameter — an instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes
- dynamiter — A person who uses dynamite, especially one who uses it unlawfully.
- dynamotor — an electrical machine having a single magnetic field and two independent armature windings of which one acts as a motor and the other a generator: used to convert direct current from a battery into alternating current
- dyscrasia — An abnormal or disordered state of the body or of a bodily part.
- dyscrasic — relating to, resulting from, or suffering from dyscrasia
- dyscratic — having or suffering from dyscrasia
- dysmature — Exhibiting dysmaturity.
- dysmetria — the inability to conform muscular action to desired movements because of faulty judgment of distance.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dyspraxia — inability to perform coordinated movements.
- dyspraxic — Of or pertaining to dyspraxia.
- ear candy — Slang. pleasant, melodic pop music.
- earlywood — the light-coloured wood made by a tree in the spring that shows up in the yearly growth ring
- earth day — environmental awareness day
- educatory — educative.
- endurably — In an endurable or tolerable manner.
- fairyhood — a fairy nature or state: the fairyhood of Puck.
- fairyland — the imaginary realm of fairies.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- farmyards — A yard or enclosure attached to a farmhouse.
- federally — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
- feudatory — a person who holds lands by feudal tenure; a feudal vassal.
- fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- first day — (among Quakers) Sunday.
- foolhardy — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- forecaddy — caddy who goes ahead of the golfer to point out the ball's location
- forwardly — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- frowardly — In a froward manner.
- fry bread — a flat wheat bread made by North American Indians of the SW U.S., that is cooked by frying in deep fat until light brown and puffed on both sides