10-letter words containing d, y, o
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- deemployed — to hire or engage the services of (a person or persons); provide employment for; have or keep in one's service: This factory employs thousands of people.
- defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- dehydrator — a person or thing that dehydrates.
- delay slot — delayed control-transfer
- delegatory — of or relating to the delegation or assignment of authority, power, or responsibility.
- deltiology — the collection and study of picture postcards
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- demonology — Demonology is a set of beliefs which says that a particular situation or group of people is evil or unacceptable.
- dendrology — the branch of botany that is concerned with the natural history of trees and shrubs
- deontology — the branch of ethics dealing with duty, moral obligation, and moral commitment
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- deployable — able to be deployed
- deployment — The deployment of troops, resources, or equipment is the organization and positioning of them so that they are ready for quick action.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depository — A depository is a place where objects can be stored safely.
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- derisorily — In a derisory manner.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
- desirously — With desire; eagerly.
- desolately — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- desolatory — tending to cause desolation
- destroyers — Plural form of destroyer.
- destroyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of destroy.
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- detractory — (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- dextrously — Alternative form of dexterously.
- diagonally — Mathematics. connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line. extending from one edge of a solid figure to an opposite edge, as a plane.
- dichromacy — The quality of having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dictionary — (as modifier)
- dictyosome — a Golgi body, esp in a plant cell
- dicynodont — any of various extinct Triassic mammal-like reptiles having a single pair of tusklike teeth
- didynamous — (of plants) having four stamens arranged in two pairs of unequal length, as in the foxglove
- difformity — the quality of being different or irregular in form
- dihydrogen — (chemistry) The divalent radical formed from two separate hydrogen atoms or ions.
- dilatorily — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- diphyllous — having two leaves.
- diphyodont — having two successive sets of teeth, as most mammals.
- dirty bomb — a nuclear warhead designed to produce a great amount of radioactive debris by use of a fusion core, fission trigger, and casing of uranium-238.
- dirty joke — vulgar piece of humour
- dirty look — face: resentful expression
- dirty pool — unethical, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.
- dirty word — a vulgar or taboo word; obscenity.
- dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
- disanalogy — A lack or failure of analogy.
- discectomy — Surgical removal of the whole or a part of an intervertebral disc.