11-letter words containing d, r, y, u
- nonindustry — not related to a particular industry
- nurserymaid — Nursemaid.
- old country — the original home country of an immigrant or a person's ancestors, especially a European country.
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- purportedly — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadricycle — a vehicle similar to the bicycle and tricycle but having four wheels.
- quarter day — (in England, Ireland, and Wales) one of the four days, Lady Day, Midsummer Day, Michaelmas, or Christmas, regarded as marking off the quarters of the year, on which quarterly payments are due, tenancies begin and end, etc.
- quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
- rajahmundry — a city in Andhra Pradesh state, SE India, on the Godavari River.
- rally round — show solidarity
- red mercury — a supposedly radioactive substance that could be used in a bomb made from nuclear waste, widely believed to be part of a confidence trick in which gangsters sold useless material to terrorists in the early 1990s
- reductively — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- redundantly — characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
- repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
- rudimentary — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- rue the day — If you rue the day that you did something, you are sorry that you did it, because it has had unpleasant results.
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- sculduddery — obscene behavior; lewdness.
- sculduggery — skulduggery.
- sentry duty — the duty of serving as a sentry
- skulduddery — (of people) adultery
- skulduggery — dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: bribery, graft, and other such skulduggery.
- southwardly — toward the south
- square yard — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one yard on each side; 0.8361 square meters. 2 , sq. yd. Abbreviation: yd.
- study group — an informal gathering of people who convene regularly to exchange ideas and information on a specific subject.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
- subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
- sugar daddy — a wealthy, middle-aged man who spends freely on a young woman in return for her companionship or intimacy.
- sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
- sulphhydryl — the univalent radical group -SH
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- superdainty — very dainty
- thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- touch-ready — (of software) ready to work on touch-screen computers and devices
- traducingly — in a traducing manner
- typefounder — a person who casts metallic printer's type
- un-hydrated — (of paper pulp) beaten until gelatinous for making into water-resistant paper.