10-letter words containing d, y, s, r, e
- 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.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- early days — initial stages
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- 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)
- glycerides — Plural form of glyceride.
- 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.
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- hybridised — Simple past tense and past participle of hybridise.
- hybridizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hybridize.
- hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
- 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.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.
- hydroceles — Plural form of hydrocele.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- hydrolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolyse.
- hydrolyses — chemical decomposition in which a compound is split into other compounds by reacting with water.
- hydrolytes — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hydrolyzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrolyze.
- hydroscope — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydroseres — Plural form of hydrosere.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hydroxides — Plural form of hydroxide.
- hyperdense — (medicine) Extremely dense.
- hyperspeed — Extremely high speed.
- hypodermis — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- i dare say — (it is) quite possible (that)
- lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
- mcreynolds — James Clark, 1862–1946, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1914–41.
- measuredly — In a measured fashion.
- merseyside — a metropolitan county in W England. 250 sq. mi. (648 sq. km).
- mistrayned — deluded or incorrectly trained
- 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.
- oyster bed — a place where oysters breed or are cultivated.
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
- predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- presumedly — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- reservedly — kept or set apart for some particular use or purpose.
- residually — in a residual manner.