10-letter words containing l, y, d, i, a
- first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- flaccidity — soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- gal friday — Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- galaxywide — Throughout a galaxy.
- goliardery — one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
- graduality — The state or degree of being gradual.
- hardwarily — /hard-weir'*-lee/ In a way pertaining to hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective "hardwary" is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.
- hyalinized — to become hyaline.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrically — in a hydric manner; in a manner using water or moisture
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- ideal type — a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
- indelicacy — the quality or condition of being indelicate.
- indictably — liable to being indicted, as a person.
- invalidity — invalidism.
- isolatedly — separated from other persons or things; alone; solitary.
- judicially — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- julian day — a serial number equal to the number of days elapsed since January 1, 4713 b.c., proposed by Joseph Scaliger in 1582 and used in astronomical calculations: January 1, 1965, at noon, Greenwich Civil Time, was Julian Day 2,438,762.0. Abbreviation: J.D.
- lackadaisy — alas
- ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
- ladykiller — A charming man who is very attractive to women.
- lymantriid — (zoology) Any of the moth family Lymantriidae.
- manifoldly — In a manifold manner.
- medievally — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- mixolydian — of, relating to, or denoting an authentic mode represented by the ascending natural diatonic scale from G to G
- modacrylic — designating or of any of various synthetic fibers that resist combustion, made from long-chain polymers composed primarily of acrylonitrile modified by other polymers: used in making fabrics, carpets, etc.
- modularity — the use of individually distinct functional units, as in assembling an electronic or mechanical system.
- myelinated — (of a nerve) having a myelin sheath; medullated.
- myocardial — the muscular substance of the heart.
- myriadfold — infinite; innumerable
- nonduality — Lack of duality.
- octaploidy — the fact of having or containing eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- old bailey — the main criminal court of London, England.
- ordinarily — most of the time; generally; usually: Ordinarily he wakes at seven.
- ordinately — in an ordered manner
- piccadilly — one of the main streets of London, running from Piccadilly Circus to Hyde Park Corner
- plauditory — approving or laudatory
- play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- play dirty — use unfair or dishonest tactics
- pleadingly — the act of a person who pleads.
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polydipsia — excessive thirst.
- polydontia — the condition of having more than the normal number of teeth.
- ponytailed — having a ponytail
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday