10-letter words containing d, y, a, i
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.
- hyalinized — to become hyaline.
- hybrid car — vehicle with combined power source
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.
- hydrically — in a hydric manner; in a manner using water or moisture
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydromania — an excessive craving or love for water
- hydrorhiza — the rootlike base of a hydroid colony, by which it is attached to the substratum.
- hydrotaxis — oriented movement toward or away from water.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypermedia — hypertext
- hyphopodia — (in a fungus) a specialized hyphal branch, composed of one or two usually lobed cells, serving for attachment and for the absorption of food.
- hypnopedia — sleep learning.
- hypoadenia — a deficiency of glandular activity.
- hypodorian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the ascending diatonic scale from A to A
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- i dare say — (it is) quite possible (that)
- ideal type — a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- idiography — The study of individuals.
- immoderacy — immoderation.
- inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
- incendiary — used or adapted for setting property on fire: incendiary bombs.
- indagatory — investigatory
- indelicacy — the quality or condition of being indelicate.
- indicatory — That indicates, signifies or implies.
- indictably — liable to being indicted, as a person.
- indignancy — Indignation.
- indo-aryan — a member of a people of India who are Indo-European in speech and Caucasoid in physical characteristics.
- intendancy — the office or function of an intendant.
- invalidity — invalidism.
- irradiancy — Alternative form of irradiance.
- isocyanide — a compound containing an isocyano group.
- isodynamic — pertaining to or characterized by equality of force, intensity, or the like.
- isolatedly — separated from other persons or things; alone; solitary.
- judicatory — of or relating to judgment or the administration of justice; judiciary: judicatory power.
- judicially — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- julian day — a serial number equal to the number of days elapsed since January 1, 4713 b.c., proposed by Joseph Scaliger in 1582 and used in astronomical calculations: January 1, 1965, at noon, Greenwich Civil Time, was Julian Day 2,438,762.0. Abbreviation: J.D.
- lackadaisy — alas
- ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
- ladykiller — A charming man who is very attractive to women.
- lymantriid — (zoology) Any of the moth family Lymantriidae.