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.