10-letter words containing d, y, e
- midcentury — Occurring around the center or middle of the century.
- mind's eye — the hypothetical site of visual recollection or imagination: In her mind's eye she saw the city as it had been in Caesar's time.
- mindlessly — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- mindszenty — Joseph (Joseph Pehm) 1892–1975, Hungarian Roman Catholic clergyman: primate of Hungary 1945–74.
- mistrayned — deluded or incorrectly trained
- misty-eyed — on the verge of tears.
- moderately — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
- modern-day — Modern-day is used to refer to the new or modern aspects of a place, an activity, or a society.
- molybdates — Plural form of molybdate.
- molybdenum — a silver-white metallic element, used as an alloy with iron in making hard, high-speed cutting tools. Symbol: Mo; atomic weight: 95.94; atomic number: 42; specific gravity: 10.2.
- money fund — a money-market fund.
- monorhymed — rhymed on a single rhyme
- murphy bed — a bed constructed so that it can be folded or swung into a closet.
- 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.
- myelinated — (of a nerve) having a myelin sheath; medullated.
- mythicized — Simple past tense and past participle of mythicize.
- naked lady — amaryllis (def 2).
- naked-lady — any of several bulbous plants of the genus Hippeastrum, especially H. puniceum, which has large red or pink flowers and is popular as a houseplant. Compare amaryllis family.
- needle fly — a small stonefly of the genus Leuctra, whose rolled-up wings at rest give it a slender pointed appearance
- needlessly — unnecessary; not needed or wanted: a needless waste of food.
- negri body — any of the microscopic bodies found in the nerve cells of animals affected with rabies.
- neurodynia — (pathology) nerve pain; neuralgia.
- new comedy — Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.
- nose candy — cocaine.
- obdurately — In an obdurate manner; stubbornly, intractably or inflexibly.
- obediently — obeying or willing to obey; complying with or submissive to authority: an obedient son.
- odontogeny — the development of teeth.
- odorimetry — the measurement of the strength and permanence of odours
- offendedly — In an offended manner.
- okey dokey — Okey dokey is used in the same way as 'OK' to show that you agree to something, or that you want to start talking about something else or doing something else.
- old bailey — the main criminal court of London, England.
- old comedy — Greek comedy of the 5th century b.c., which derived from fertility rites in honor of Dionysus and combined robust humor with biting personal and political satire.
- on day one — on the first day; from the very beginning
- ordinately — in an ordered manner
- outdatedly — in an outdated manner
- outmodedly — In an outmoded manner.
- oven-ready — (of various foods) bought already prepared so that they are ready to be cooked in the oven
- overboldly — in too bold a manner; incautiously
- overfondly — with excessive affection
- overgreedy — too greedy
- oxidimetry — a technique of analytical chemistry that utilizes oxidizing agents for titrations.
- oxygenated — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
- oyster bed — a place where oysters breed or are cultivated.
- paddymelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- pdsa cycle — Plan, Do, See, Approve (from Japan).
- peary land — a peninsula in N Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean: Cape Morris Jesup is at its N end. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
- piece-dyed — dyed after weaving (opposed to yarn-dyed).