8-letter words containing d, r, y
- dyeworks — a factory producing dyes
- dynatron — an electron tube, usually a tetrode, that produces an oscillating current at certain frequencies
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- elytroid — like an elytron
- embryoid — Of, pertaining to, or resembling an embryo.
- endarchy — a central government
- enhydros — a piece of chalcedony that contains water
- eurydice — a dryad married to Orpheus, who sought her in Hades after she died. She could have left Hades with him had he not broken his pact and looked back at her
- everyday — Happening or used every day; daily.
- eyedrops — Plural form of eyedrop.
- fairydom — The realm or sphere of fairies.
- farmyard — a yard or enclosure surrounded by or connected with farm buildings.
- federacy — a confederacy.
- feedyard — an area where cattle are kept and fed when being fattened for market
- fervidly — heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.: a fervid orator.
- floridly — reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
- forcedly — enforced or compulsory: forced labor.
- forebody — the part of a ship's hull forward of the middle body.
- forelady — a forewoman.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- friendly — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- frigidly — In a frigid manner; coldly.
- frogeyed — (of a person) having a bulging eye or bulging eyes
- frybread — a Native American fried bread made with wheat or corn flour, often served on special occasions
- gadgetry — mechanical or electronic contrivances; gadgets: the gadgetry of the well-equipped modern kitchen.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- gliddery — slippery
- goodyear — Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
- gradably — In a gradable manner.
- greedily — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
- greyhead — a person with grey hair
- grindery — a workshop for grinding edge tools.
- gynandry — hermaphroditism.
- gyrodyne — A kind of VTOL aircraft with a helicopter rotor-like system driven by its engine for takeoff and landing, as well as one or more conventional propellers to provide forward thrust during cruising flight.
- gyroidal — having a spiral arrangement.
- halyards — Plural form of halyard.
- hardbody — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- hazardry — the taking of risks
- heraldry — the science of armorial bearings.
- heredity — the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
- holyrood — the cross on which Jesus died.
- hoorayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hooray.
- horridly — such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
- hurrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurray.
- hydracid — an acid that does not contain oxygen, as hydrochloric acid, HCl.
- hydranth — the terminal part of a hydroid polyp that bears the mouth and tentacles and contains the stomach region.
- hydrants — Plural form of hydrant.