10-letter words containing d, u, y
- polydeuces — Greek name of Pollux.
- polydomous — living in more than one nest, as certain ant colonies.
- presumedly — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- pridefully — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- profoundly — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- pseudo-tty — (operating system) Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
- pseudology — lying considered as an art.
- psyched up — psychologically prepared
- puducherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- purblindly — in a purblind manner
- quadrilogy — (nonstandard) A tetralogy.
- redundancy — the state of being redundant.
- residually — in a residual manner.
- royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
- ruddy duck — a stiff-tailed American duck, Oxyura jamaicensis, the adult male of which has a brownish-red body, black crown, and white cheeks.
- rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
- sculduddry — unchaste behaviour
- seducingly — in a seducing manner
- sedulously — diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.
- self-study — the study of something by oneself, as through books, records, etc., without direct supervision or attendance in a class: She learned to read German by self-study.
- seminudity — partial nudity; the state of being partly nude
- sluggardly — like or befitting a sluggard; slothful; lazy.
- speedfully — in a quick or effective manner
- spondylous — relating to a vertebra or vertebrae
- squinteyed — squinting
- stamp duty — land tax
- stem duchy — (in medieval Germany) any of the independent duchies corresponding in part to areas of tribal settlement and preserving some elements of tribal social structure.
- studiously — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
- study hall — (in some schools) a room used solely or chiefly for studying.
- study room — a room, esp in a boarding school, used for studying
- study tour — a trip or tour taken by a group of people in order to study something, such as a language
- subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
- subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
- suicidally — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
- sulfhydryl — mercapto.
- sunny side — the part upon which sunlight falls: the sunny side of the house.
- supposedly — assumed as true, regardless of fact; hypothetical: a supposed case.
- synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
- synandrous — with united stamens
- thrum-eyed — (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma on a short style below the anthers, which lie in the mouth of the corolla on big stamens
- thucydides — c460–c400 b.c, Greek historian.
- thuddingly — in a thudding manner
- time study — time and motion study.
- tripudiary — pertaining to dancing
- troubledly — in a troubled manner
- tumble-dry — to dry (washing) in a clothes drier in which articles are rotated vertically through heated air.
- turkey red — a bright red produced in fabrics by madder, alizarin, or synthetic dyes.
- unabatedly — with undiminished force, power, or vigor.
- unanalysed — not yet analysed or examined