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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
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