10-letter words containing d, r, y, o, a
- delegatory — of or relating to the delegation or assignment of authority, power, or responsibility.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
- desolatory — tending to cause desolation
- detractory — (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- dichromacy — The quality of having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dictionary — (as modifier)
- dilatorily — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- dollar day — a sale day on which retail merchandise is reduced to a dollar or very low price.
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- downwardly — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- early wood — springwood.
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- errand boy — boy who carries messages, go-between
- faldistory — a bishop's seat or throne
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- 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.
- 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.
- grey nomad — any elderly retired person who spends time travelling around the country in a mobile home
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- hard money — (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- 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.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- 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.