10-letter words containing d, y, c
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- dulcifying — Present participle of dulcify.
- dulciloquy — a way of speaking that is mellow and agreeable
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- dyadically — In a dyadic manner; as a dyad or by means of dyads.
- dynamicist — a person who investigates and researches dynamics
- dynamicity — The condition of being dynamic.
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- dysarthric — Afflicted with, or pertaining to, dysarthria.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dyscontrol — The inability to control one's behavior.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dysfluency — disfluency.
- dysgenetic — (genetics) Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dysplastic — Exhibiting dysplasia.
- dyspractic — relating to or affected by dyspraxia
- dysthymiac — a person who is affected with dysthymia
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- ecdysiasts — Plural form of ecdysiast.
- endemicity — The quality of being endemic.
- endocytose — (cytology) Of a cell, to ingest material by folding the plasma membrane inwards around it.
- endophytic — Of or relating to an endophyte.
- enforcedly — In a way that is enforced.
- enhydritic — pertaining to enhydrite
- epicondyle — (anatomy) A protuberance above the condyle of a bone to which ligaments or tendons are attached.
- epicycloid — A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle rolling on the exterior of another circle.
- ergodicity — (uncountable) The condition of being ergodic.
- euroclydon — a stormy wind from the north or northeast that occurs in the Levant, which caused the ship in which St Paul was travelling to be wrecked (Acts 27:14)
- expectedly — In an expected way; as expected; predictably.
- expediency — The quality of being convenient and practical despite possibly being improper or immoral; convenience.
- eye doctor — ophthalmologist
- fancy dive — any of the series of specified dives executed in fancy diving, as the jackknife or gainer.
- fatty acid — any of a class of aliphatic acids, especially palmitic, stearic, or oleic acid, consisting of a long hydrocarbon chain ending in a carboxyl group that bonds to glycerol to form a fat.
- fiducially — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- flaccidity — soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- food cycle — food web
- fraidy-cat — a timid, easily frightened person: often used by children.
- freddy mac — (in the US) an informal name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a private company that buys and sells mortgage debt
- fuck buddy — Slang: Vulgar. a person with whom one has a sexual but not a romantic relationship.
- fundectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- funduscopy — Ophthalmoscopic examination of the fundus of the eye.
- furry dice — two oversized dice covered with fake fur and hung in a car as a decoration