10-letter words containing d, y, e, r
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle
- drury lane — a street in London, England, formerly notable for its theaters, named after the house Sir William Drury built there in the reign of Henry VIII.
- dry freeze — the occurrence of freezing temperatures without the formation of hoarfrost.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry ginger — ginger ale
- dry offset — letterset.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dry valley — a valley originally produced by running water but now waterless
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- dvd player — machine: plays DVDs
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- early bird — a person who rises at an early hour.
- early days — initial stages
- early wood — springwood.
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- edo memory — Extended Data Out Dynamic Random Access Memory
- elder days — The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm.
- elderberry — The bluish-black or red berry of the elder, used especially for making jelly or wine.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- embroidery — The art or pastime of embroidering cloth.
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- empire day — a former holiday celebrated in the British Empire on May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday
- endothermy — (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism.
- enduringly — In an enduring manner or fashion; such as to endure.
- enforcedly — In a way that is enforced.
- enhydritic — pertaining to enhydrite
- enlargedly — in an enlarged manner
- entry word — in book
- ergodicity — (uncountable) The condition of being ergodic.
- errand boy — boy who carries messages, go-between
- eudiometry — (chemistry, dated) The art or process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.
- 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)
- eurypterid — An extinct marine arthropod of a group occurring in the Paleozoic era. They are related to horseshoe crabs and resemble large scorpions with a terminal pair of paddle-shaped swimming appendages.
- eye doctor — ophthalmologist
- eyedropper — A dropper for administering eye-drops.
- field army — army (def 2).
- finger-dry — to dry hair by lifting it and running it between the fingers from roots to ends
- flurriedly — a light, brief shower of snow.
- fly-bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- freddy mac — (in the US) an informal name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a private company that buys and sells mortgage debt
- freeze-dry — to subject to freeze-drying.
- frenziedly — In a frenzied manner.
- friendlily — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- furry dice — two oversized dice covered with fake fur and hung in a car as a decoration
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.