10-letter words containing d, y, s, e
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- dostoevsky — Fyodor Mikhailovich [fyoh-der mi-kahy-luh-vich;; Russian fyaw-duh r myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈfyoʊ dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈfyɔ dər myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1821–81, Russian novelist.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry offset — letterset.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- dyophysite — the presence of the divine and human natures in Jesus Christ
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dysfluency — disfluency.
- dysgenesis — Pathology. defective development of an organ, as of the gonads in Klinefelter's syndrome.
- dysgenetic — (genetics) Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
- dyskinesia — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- dyskinesis — A reduced ability to control and coordinate movement.
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- dyspepsias — Plural form of dyspepsia.
- dyspepsies — Plural form of dyspepsy.
- dysphemism — the substitution of a harsh, disparaging, or unpleasant expression for a more neutral one.
- early days — initial stages
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- ecdysiasts — Plural form of ecdysiast.
- elder days — The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- endocytose — (cytology) Of a cell, to ingest material by folding the plasma membrane inwards around it.
- endomysium — A layer of connective tissue which surrounds individual muscle fibers.
- endophytes — Plural form of endophyte.
- epididymis — A highly convoluted duct behind the testis, along which sperm passes to the vas deferens.
- eye shadow — make-up for the eyelids
- fadelessly — in a fadeless manner
- fiendishly — In a fiendish manner.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- gladsomely — (archaic) gladly.
- glycerides — Plural form of glyceride.
- glycosides — Plural form of glycoside.
- goldeneyes — Plural form of goldeneye.
- graveyards — Plural form of graveyard.
- graybeards — Plural form of graybeard.
- greedyguts — (informal) A greedy person.
- grey sedge — an angler's name for a greyish caddis fly, Odontocerum albicorne, that frequents running water, in which its larvae make cases from grains of sand
- greyhounds — Plural form of greyhound.
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- headlessly — In a headless way.