9-letter words containing d, y, s
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- destroyed — to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
- destroyer — A destroyer is a small, heavily armed warship.
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- deviously — departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect: a devious course.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diabesity — Used to refer to a form of diabetes that typically develops in later life and is associated with being obese.
- dialysate — (in the process of dialysis) the fluid passing through the dialyser, used for drawing toxins out of the patient's blood stream
- diaphyses — Plural form of diaphysis.
- diaphysis — the shaft of a long bone
- diapyesis — the discharge of pus
- diasystem — a linguistic system forming a common denominator for a group or set of dialects.
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- diffusely — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- dihybrids — Plural form of dihybrid.
- dimissory — dismissing or giving permission to depart.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- dionysian — of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dionysius — ("the Elder") 431?–367 b.c, Greek soldier: tyrant of Syracuse 405–367.
- diphysite — a person who believes that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
- disarrays — Plural form of disarray.
- discology — the study of gramophone records
- discotomy — (surgery) alternative spelling of discectomy.
- discovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
- disembody — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
- disemploy — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- dismality — the quality of being dismal
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- dismaying — Present participle of dismay.
- disobeyed — Simple past tense and past participle of disobey.
- disobeyer — One who disobeys.
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- displayed — (of a bird) represented with wings and legs spread: an eagle displayed.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- dispurvey — to strip of equipment or provisions
- dissarray — Misspelling of disarray.
- dissembly — the dismantling or separation of an assembly
- dissogeny — the condition in ctenophores in which an individual has two periods of sexual maturity, one in the larval and one in the adult stage.
- dist atty — District Attorney
- distantly — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
- disyoking — Present participle of disyoke.
- diversely — of a different kind, form, character, etc.; unlike: a wide range of diverse opinions.
- diversify — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- diversity — the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness: diversity of opinion.
- dizzyness — Alternative spelling of dizziness.
- dobsonfly — a large, soft-bodied insect, Corydalus cornutus, having four distinctly veined membranous wings, biting mouthparts, and, in the male, huge mandibles that jut out from the head.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- dogberrys — a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
- doggishly — In a doggish manner.
- dollishly — In a dollish manner.