10-letter words containing d, y, e, t, r
- discreetly — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discretely — apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
- distillery — a place or establishment where distilling, especially the distilling of liquors, is done.
- dry offset — letterset.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- endothermy — (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism.
- enhydritic — pertaining to enhydrite
- entry word — in book
- ergodicity — (uncountable) The condition of being ergodic.
- 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.
- 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
- greedyguts — (informal) A greedy person.
- greyed out — (of a navigation button, menu item, etc on a computer screen) not highlighted, indicating that the function is unavailable at a given time
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydrolytes — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hydrometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid, commonly consisting of a graduated tube weighted to float upright in the liquid whose specific gravity is being measured.
- hydrometry — (physics) The branch of hydrostatics dealing with the measurement of specific gravity using hydrometers.
- hydrophyte — a plant that grows in water or very moist ground; an aquatic plant.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hydrotrope — (chemistry) A compound that solubilizes hydrophobic compounds in aqueous solutions.
- indirectly — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
- intrepidly — In an intrepid manner; fearlessly; daringly; resolutely.
- invertedly — In an inverted manner, or reverse order.
- iridectomy — excision of part of the iris.
- karyotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of karyotype.
- kidneywort — the navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having drooping yellowish-green flowers.
- latter-day — of a later or following period: latter-day pioneers.
- lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
- leftwardly — leftwards
- market day — the day on which a regular market is held
- mediocrity — the state or quality of being mediocre.
- methyl red — a water-insoluble solid occurring as a dark-red powder or violet crystals, C 1 5 H 1 5 N 3 O 2 , used chiefly as an acid-base indicator.
- midcentury — Occurring around the center or middle of the century.
- mistrayned — deluded or incorrectly trained
- moderately — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
- muster day — the annual day for enrollment in the militia of all able men aged 18 to 45, according to a law established in 1792 and in effect until after the Civil War.