9-letter words containing d, r, y
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- ditionary — (obsolete) A subject; a tributary.
- diurnally — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- diversely — of a different kind, form, character, etc.; unlike: a wide range of diverse opinions.
- diversify — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- diversity — the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness: diversity of opinion.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- dogberrys — a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
- dogmatory — dogmatic
- dollybird — an attractive and fashionable girl, esp one who is considered to be unintelligent
- doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- dormitory — a building, as at a college, containing a number of private or semiprivate rooms for residents, usually along with common bathroom facilities and recreation areas.
- dosimetry — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- dove grey — a brownish-grey colour
- dragonfly — any of numerous stout-bodied, nonstinging insects of the order Odonata (suborder Anisoptera), the species of which prey on mosquitoes and other insects and are distinguished from the damselflies by having the wings outstretched rather than folded when at rest.
- drake fly — mayfly (def 2).
- draw away — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw play — draw (def 54).
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- drip tray — a tray, sometimes with a slotted cover, designed to catch drips, as under a beer tap, sump, plant pot, etc
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- drivingly — in a driving manner
- dromedary — the single-humped camel, Camelus dromedarius, of Arabia and northern Africa.
- droningly — With a droning sound.
- dronishly — in a droning manner
- drop away — become fewer
- drunkenly — intoxicated; drunk.
- dry basis — The dry basis is a measure of how much water is in a solid, which is expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry solid.
- dry drunk — an alcoholic who is not currently drinking alcohol but is still following an irregular undisciplined lifestyle like that of a drunkard
- dry goods — fabrics, clothing
- dry nurse — a nurse who cares for a child without suckling it
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- dry point — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- dry riser — a vertical pipe, not containing water, having connections on different floors of a building for a fireman's hose to be attached. A fire tender can be connected at the lowest level to make water rise under pressure within the pipe
- dry slope — an artificial ski slope used for tuition and practice
- dry spell — a prolonged period of dry weather.
- dry steam — steam that does not contain droplets of water
- dry stock — cattle that are raised for meat
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dry-gulch — to ambush with the intent of killing or severely mauling: The riders were dry-gulched by bandits.
- dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- dryasdust — a dull, pedantic person
- drying up — When you do the drying up, you dry things such as plates, pans, knives, and cups after they have been washed.
- dryomorph — any member of the extinct genus Dryopithecus.
- drysalter — a dealer in dry chemicals and dyes.
- drywalled — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- drywaller — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.