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11-letter words containing d, y, e, r

  • chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
  • city editor — The city editor of a newspaper is the editor who is in charge of local news.
  • cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
  • cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
  • cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • concernedly — interested or affected: concerned citizens.
  • concertedly — contrived or arranged by agreement; planned or devised together: a concerted effort.
  • confederacy — A confederacy is a union of states or people who are trying to achieve the same thing.
  • confirmedly — In a manner that is confirmed; definitely, as has been demonstrated.
  • copy editor — A copy editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
  • copyeditors — Plural form of copyeditor.
  • copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
  • copyreaders — Plural form of copyreader.
  • copyrighted — Copyrighted material is protected by a copyright.
  • copywronged — copybroke
  • cordwainery — Shoemaking.
  • countryfied — countrified
  • countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
  • countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
  • countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
  • credibility — If someone or something has credibility, people believe in them and trust them.
  • credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
  • crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
  • cryogenized — treated with or stored in a cryogen.
  • cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
  • crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
  • crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
  • currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
  • cyberfriend — A friend with whom one communicates only through the Internet or cyberspace.
  • cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
  • dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
  • dairy breed — any of several breeds of cattle developed primarily for production of milk rather than meat, as Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein, and Jersey breeds.
  • daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
  • dandy fever — (in the West Indies) dengue.
  • dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • dangleberry — a blue huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa), native to E North America
  • dapple-gray — gray spotted with darker gray
  • dapple-grey — a horse with a grey coat having spots of darker colour
  • dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
  • dark energy — unobserved energy whose existence is proposed to account for the observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe
  • day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
  • day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
  • day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
  • day nursery — A day nursery is a place where children who are too young to go to school can be left all day while their parents are at work.
  • day of rest — the Sabbath; Sunday
  • day release — Day release is a system in which workers spend one day each week at a college in order to study a subject connected with their work.
  • day surgery — a system in which a patient comes into hospital for a surgical procedure, has the operation, recovers and is released from hospital in the course of a single day
  • day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
  • day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
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