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11-letter words containing e, d, r, y

  • perplexedly — in a puzzled way
  • perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • peter debye — Peter Joseph Wilhelm [pey-tuh r yoh-sef vil-helm] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈyoʊ sɛf ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936.
  • pioneer day — a legal holiday in Utah on July 24 to commemorate Brigham Young's founding of Salt Lake City in 1847.
  • pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
  • ponderingly — in a pondering manner
  • ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
  • pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
  • precedently — in a precedent or preceding fashion, beforehand
  • predelivery — the act of delivering in advance of need, use or expectation of the thing delivered
  • predicatory — of or relating to preaching.
  • predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
  • 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.
  • preferredly — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
  • premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
  • present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
  • pretendedly — in a manner of pretence
  • professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
  • providently — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
  • prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
  • pteridology — the branch of botany dealing with ferns and related plants, as the horsetails and club mosses.
  • pterodactyl — any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.
  • purportedly — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
  • pyramid bet — a set of bets on two or more horse races or other sporting events in which the stake and winnings from the first bet automatically become the stake in the next bet, and so on as long as each bet wins.
  • pyrrolidine — a colorless, water-soluble, unpleasant smelling, poisonous liquid, C 4 H 9 N, from which proline and certain alkaloids are derived, prepared by reducing pyrrole: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • quadricycle — a vehicle similar to the bicycle and tricycle but having four wheels.
  • quarter day — (in England, Ireland, and Wales) one of the four days, Lady Day, Midsummer Day, Michaelmas, or Christmas, regarded as marking off the quarters of the year, on which quarterly payments are due, tenancies begin and end, etc.
  • quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
  • radial tyre — a motor-vehicle tyre having a radial-ply casing
  • radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
  • readability — Also, readableness. the state or quality of being readable.
  • ready money — money that is in hand or may be obtained quickly or easily; cash.
  • ready-mixed — blended in advance of being sold
  • red mercury — a supposedly radioactive substance that could be used in a bomb made from nuclear waste, widely believed to be part of a confidence trick in which gangsters sold useless material to terrorists in the early 1990s
  • redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
  • rediscovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
  • reductively — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • redundantly — characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
  • referendary — a referee who resolves disputes or makes decisions
  • rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
  • repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
  • retired pay — retirement pay; pension
  • review body — an organization sponsored by the government to make independent recommendations
  • rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
  • ride cymbal — a medium-sized cymbal suspended over a set of drums, used for maintaining rhythm patterns since the advent of bop
  • ridgy-didge — genuine; correct
  • road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
  • road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
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