10-letter words containing d, r, y, s
- disglorify — to remove from glory
- dish gravy — meat juices, as from a roast, served as a gravy without seasoning or thickening.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- dismissory — of or relating to dismission
- disorderly — characterized by disorder; irregular; untidy; confused: a disorderly desk.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- distillery — a place or establishment where distilling, especially the distilling of liquors, is done.
- dithyrambs — Plural form of dithyramb.
- dolorously — In a dolorous manner.
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- dory skiff — an open boat similar to but smaller than a dory.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry offset — letterset.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- dwarfishly — In a dwarfish manner.
- dysarthria — Difficult or unclear articulation of speech that is otherwise linguistically normal.
- dysarthric — Afflicted with, or pertaining to, dysarthria.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dyscontrol — The inability to control one's behavior.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dysgraphia — inability to write, caused by cerebral lesion.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dyspractic — relating to or affected by dyspraxia
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- dysprosody — A disorder in which one or more of the prosodic functions of speech are compromised or eliminated completely.
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- early days — initial stages
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- elder days — The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- faldistory — a bishop's seat or throne
- first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- glory days — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- glycerides — Plural form of glyceride.
- goods yard — a railway freight yard.
- graveyards — Plural form of graveyard.