11-letter words containing d, y, s, r
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- monohybrids — Plural form of monohybrid.
- mrs. grundy — Mrs. a narrow-minded, conventional person who is extremely critical of any breach of propriety.
- murderously — In a murderous manner; as if wanting to commit murder; extremely angrily.
- myocarditis — inflammation of the myocardium.
- nonindustry — not related to a particular industry
- nurserymaid — Nursemaid.
- pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
- paris daisy — marguerite (def 1).
- party dress — a dress to wear to a party
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- rediscovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
- road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- scaredy cat — fraidy-cat.
- scaredy-cat — fraidy-cat.
- scatteredly — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- sculduddery — obscene behavior; lewdness.
- sculduggery — skulduggery.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- seed oyster — a very young oyster, especially one used in the cultivating and transplanting of an oyster bed.
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- sentry duty — the duty of serving as a sentry
- serendipity — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- silly-sider — a left-handed person.
- six day war — a war fought in June, 1967, between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, in which Israel captured large tracts of Arab territory.
- six-day war — a war fought in June, 1967, between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, in which Israel captured large tracts of Arab territory.
- sixty-third — next after the sixty-second; being the ordinal number for 63.
- skulduddery — (of people) adultery
- skulduggery — dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: bribery, graft, and other such skulduggery.
- skyrocketed — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- soldier fly — any of several flies of the family Stratiomyidae, characterized by brightly colored abdominal stripes.
- southwardly — toward the south
- spider lily — any of several plants having lilylike flowers with narrow petals, as those belonging to the genera Crinum, Hymenocallis, and Lycoris, of the amaryllis family.
- spin-drying — a technique for extracting water from clothes, linen, etc, by spinning them in a perforated drum
- spiny-rayed — spiny-finned.
- sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- spotted ray — any of various species of ray with irregular markings on the back