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11-letter words containing i, d, y

  • eye dialect — nonstandard respelling of words to suggest dialectal or informal pronunciation
  • fairy bread — slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar, served as a children’s snack
  • fiddle away — to waste (time)
  • fiduciarily — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
  • field study — observation of nature in the wild
  • fifty-third — next after the fifty-second; being the ordinal number for 53.
  • findability — (information science) The quality of a particular object being locatable.
  • floppy disc — (spelling)   It's "floppy disk", not like "compact disc".
  • floppy disk — Computers. a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material, on which computer data and programs can be stored for later retrieval.
  • flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
  • flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
  • foolhardily — In a foolhardy manner.
  • forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
  • forty-third — next after the forty-second; being the ordinal number for 43.
  • garden city — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
  • geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
  • germylidene — (chemistry) the germanium analogues of carbenes, R2Ge':'.
  • gimlet-eyed — having penetrating and piercing eyes, and seeming to notice everything
  • girl friday — gal Friday.
  • glossodynia — a condition characterized by a burning or tingling mouth region
  • glycolipids — Plural form of glycolipid.
  • glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
  • good friday — the Friday before Easter, a holy day of the Christian church, observed as the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
  • gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
  • gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
  • gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
  • grey-haired — having grey hair
  • gymnodinium — any marine or freshwater dinoflagellate of the genus Gymnodinium, certain species of which cause red tide.
  • hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
  • hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
  • head injury — wound to the head
  • hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
  • hemihydrate — a hydrate in which there are two molecules of the compound for each molecule of water.
  • hemodynamic — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
  • high comedy — comedy dealing with polite society, characterized by sophisticated, witty dialogue and an intricate plot.
  • highly paid — that receives a large salary
  • hinderingly — in a hindering manner, so as to hinder or obstruct
  • holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
  • holiday pay — the salary a worker receives for days taken off work
  • holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
  • holy island — Also called Lindisfarne. an island off the E coast of Northumberland, England. 3 miles (4.8 km) long.
  • homicidally — In a homicidal manner.
  • honey guide — any of several small, usually dull-colored birds of the family Indicatoridae, of Africa and southern Asia, certain species of which are noted for their habit of leading people or animals to nests of honeybees in order to feed on the honey, larvae, and wax of the nests after they have been broken open.
  • humidifying — Present participle of humidify.
  • hybrid bill — (in Parliament) a public bill to which the standing orders for private business apply; a bill having a general application as well as affecting certain private interests
  • hybrid chip — an integrated circuit that comprises both diffused active devices and thin-film components.
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