9-letter words containing d, y, s
- bydgoszcz — an industrial city and port in N Poland: under Prussian rule from 1772 to 1919. Pop: 579 000 (2005 est)
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- caddishly — in a caddish manner
- candy-ass — a timid or cowardly person; wimp
- caryatids — Plural form of caryatid.
- catalysed — to act upon by catalysis.
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chlamydes — Plural form of chlamys.
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- city desk — the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
- class day — a day during the commencement season on which the members of the graduating class in U.S. colleges and schools celebrate the completion of their course with special ceremonies.
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.
- copy desk — a desk where copy is edited
- copyedits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.
- copyholds — Plural form of copyhold.
- corduroys — trousers or breeches of corduroy
- corydalis — any erect or climbing plant of the N temperate genus Corydalis, having finely-lobed leaves and spurred yellow or pinkish flowers: family Fumariaceae
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- dactylics — Plural form of dactylic.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- daisy 201 — An early system on G-15.
- daisy ham — a boned and smoked piece of pork from the pig's shoulder
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- dasypygal — (nonce) Having hairy buttocks.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- day-lewis — C(ecil). 1904–72, British poet, critic, and (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) author of detective stories; poet laureate (1968–72)
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- daydreams — Plural form of daydream.
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- dayspring — the dawn
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- decayless — having no tendency to decay
- defensory — (archaic) Tending to defend; defensive.
- demassify — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- demystify — If you demystify something, you make it easier to understand by giving a clear explanation of it.
- dentistry — Dentistry is the work done by a dentist.
- descrying — Present participle of descry.
- desertify — to (cause to) become a desert