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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.
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