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11-letter words containing d, r, y

  • copy editor — A copy editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
  • copyeditors — Plural form of copyeditor.
  • copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
  • copyreaders — Plural form of copyreader.
  • copyrighted — Copyrighted material is protected by a copyright.
  • copywronged — copybroke
  • cordwainery — Shoemaking.
  • countryfied — countrified
  • countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
  • countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
  • countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
  • crack hardy — to disguise one's discomfort, etc; put on a bold front
  • credibility — If someone or something has credibility, people believe in them and trust them.
  • credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
  • crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
  • crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
  • cryogenized — treated with or stored in a cryogen.
  • cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
  • cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
  • cryptorchid — an animal or human in which the testes fail to descend into the scrotum
  • crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
  • crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
  • crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
  • currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
  • cut-and-try — marked by a procedure of trial and error; empirical: Many scientific advances are achieved with a cut-and-try approach.
  • cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
  • cyberfriend — A friend with whom one communicates only through the Internet or cyberspace.
  • cylindrical — Something that is cylindrical is in the shape of a cylinder.
  • cylindroids — Plural form of cylindroid.
  • cyprinodont — any small tropical or subtropical soft-finned fish of the mostly marine family Cyprinodontidae, resembling carp but having toothed jaws. The group includes the guppy, killifish, swordtail, and topminnow
  • cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
  • dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
  • dactylogram — a fingerprint
  • daddy track — a career path for men who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
  • daily grind — everyday work routine
  • dairy breed — any of several breeds of cattle developed primarily for production of milk rather than meat, as Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein, and Jersey breeds.
  • daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
  • dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
  • dandy fever — (in the West Indies) dengue.
  • dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
  • dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • dangleberry — a blue huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa), native to E North America
  • dapple-gray — gray spotted with darker gray
  • dapple-grey — a horse with a grey coat having spots of darker colour
  • dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
  • dark energy — unobserved energy whose existence is proposed to account for the observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe
  • day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
  • day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
  • day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
  • day nursery — A day nursery is a place where children who are too young to go to school can be left all day while their parents are at work.
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