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10-letter words containing d, r, y

  • body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
  • body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
  • bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
  • bodyworker — a person involved in the building or repair of bodywork
  • botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
  • boy wonder — a young man who is extremely good at a particular activity or who has a particular talent or skill
  • brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
  • bradykinin — a peptide in blood plasma that dilates blood vessels and causes contraction of smooth muscles. Formula: C50H73N15O11
  • bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
  • bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
  • brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
  • breadberry — bread soaked in water or milk
  • broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
  • bumpy ride — experience: difficult
  • by degrees — If something happens by degrees, it happens slowly and gradually.
  • by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
  • candy corn — a small candy shaped and colored to look like a kernel of corn.
  • cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
  • cardboardy — like cardboard, esp in stiffness, texture, or taste
  • cardinally — of prime importance; chief; principal: of cardinal significance.
  • cardiology — Cardiology is the study of the heart and its diseases.
  • cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
  • cardplayer — a person who plays cards
  • category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
  • cedar city — a town in SW Utah.
  • chandlerly — like, or pertaining to, a chandler
  • chardonnay — a white grape originally grown in the Burgundy region of France, and now throughout the wine-producing world
  • cherry red — a bright red; cherry.
  • cherry-red — bright red
  • chlorodyne — a drug, containing chloroform among other ingredients, with sedative, narcotic and pain-relieving properties
  • chordotomy — an operation to paralyse nerve tracts in the spinal chord in order to relieve pain associated with certain conditions
  • churchyard — A churchyard is an area of land around a church where dead people are buried.
  • chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
  • clear-eyed — discerning; perceptive
  • clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
  • cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
  • cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
  • commandery — a manor under the charge of a commander of a religious military order of knights
  • condensery — a factory where condensed milk is produced
  • condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
  • copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
  • copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
  • copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
  • cordectomy — the removal of a cord, esp a vocal cord
  • cordiality — warmth of feeling
  • corn dolly — a decorative figure made by plaiting straw
  • cornbrandy — any of various alcoholic spirits made from grain, esp whisky
  • corydaline — an alkaloid, C22H27NO4, that is found in the roots of certain plants of the genus Corydalis
  • coryphodon — a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
  • courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
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