10-letter words containing d, y, c
- 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).
- pycnogonid — any marine arthropod of the class Pycnogonida, having small bodies and long legs
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- radicality — the quality or state of being radical
- radiolytic — the dissociation of molecules by ionizing radiation.
- radioscopy — the examination of objects opaque to light by means of another form of radiation, usually x-rays.
- rapid city — a city in SW South Dakota.
- redundancy — the state of being redundant.
- reply card — a usually postage-paid postcard or coupon that can be mailed back to the sender to place an order, request information, or the like.
- retardancy — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- rice paddy — a field planted with rice
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- ruddy duck — a stiff-tailed American duck, Oxyura jamaicensis, the adult male of which has a brownish-red body, black crown, and white cheeks.
- sand yacht — land yacht.
- sandy city — a town in central Utah.
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- school day — any day on which school is conducted.
- schooldays — school-age period
- schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
- scooby doo — a clue
- sculduddry — unchaste behaviour
- seducingly — in a seducing manner
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- speech day — In some British schools, speech day is a day, usually at the end of the school year, when prizes are presented to pupils and speeches are made by guest speakers and the head teacher.
- spodomancy — divination by studying ashes
- stack-yard — a yard where stacks of hay, straw, etc, are kept
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- 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.
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- suicidally — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
- swaybacked — having the back sagged to an unusual degree; having a sway-back.
- switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- syndactyly — the state of being syndactyl
- syndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- synecdoche — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- thucydides — c460–c400 b.c, Greek historian.
- thymidylic — describing an acid consisting of thymine, deoxyribose, and a phosphate group
- ticket day — (on the London Stock Exchange) the day on which selling brokers receive from buying brokers the names of investors who have made purchases during the previous account
- tyrocidine — an antibiotic that is the main constituent of tyrothricin
- uncandidly — in an uncandid manner; not openly; guardedly
- unconvoyed — unaccompanied
- unforcedly — in an unforced manner
- unrecycled — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- windy city — Chicago, Ill. (used as a nickname).
- wretchedly — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
- wry-necked — afflicted with wryneck.
- yardsticks — Plural form of yardstick.