9-letter words containing d, y, a, s
- class day — a day during the commencement season on which the members of the graduating class in U.S. colleges and schools celebrate the completion of their course with special ceremonies.
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- corydalis — any erect or climbing plant of the N temperate genus Corydalis, having finely-lobed leaves and spurred yellow or pinkish flowers: family Fumariaceae
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- dactylics — Plural form of dactylic.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- daisy 201 — An early system on G-15.
- daisy ham — a boned and smoked piece of pork from the pig's shoulder
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- dasypygal — (nonce) Having hairy buttocks.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- day-lewis — C(ecil). 1904–72, British poet, critic, and (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) author of detective stories; poet laureate (1968–72)
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- daydreams — Plural form of daydream.
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- dayspring — the dawn
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- decayless — having no tendency to decay
- demassify — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- diabesity — Used to refer to a form of diabetes that typically develops in later life and is associated with being obese.
- dialysate — (in the process of dialysis) the fluid passing through the dialyser, used for drawing toxins out of the patient's blood stream
- diaphyses — Plural form of diaphysis.
- diaphysis — the shaft of a long bone
- diapyesis — the discharge of pus
- diasystem — a linguistic system forming a common denominator for a group or set of dialects.
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- dionysian — of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
- disarrays — Plural form of disarray.
- dismality — the quality of being dismal
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- dismaying — Present participle of dismay.
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- displayed — (of a bird) represented with wings and legs spread: an eagle displayed.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- dissarray — Misspelling of disarray.
- dist atty — District Attorney
- distantly — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- 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 steam — steam that does not contain droplets of water