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11-letter words containing n, y, o, r

  • denigratory — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • deploringly — In a deploring manner.
  • designatory — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
  • deuteronomy — the fifth book of the Old Testament, containing a second statement of the Mosaic Law
  • devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
  • dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
  • dirty money — money obtained by immoral means
  • discordancy — discordance (defs 1–3).
  • dishonorary — tending to dishonour or disgrace
  • divisionary — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
  • doctrinally — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
  • documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • donkey ride — a ride on the back of a donkey, esp for recreation
  • donkey work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
  • donkey-work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
  • donnybrooks — Plural form of donnybrook.
  • dragon lady — (often initial capital letters) a woman of somewhat sinister glamour often perceived as wielding ruthless or corrupt power.
  • dry-footing — removal of glaze from the rim at the bottom of a piece.
  • dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
  • dynamometer — An instrument that measures the power output of an engine.
  • dynamometry — The measurement of forces doing work.
  • dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
  • eccrinology — the branch of physiology and anatomy dealing with secretions and the secretory glands.
  • ecofriendly — Alternative spelling of eco-friendly.
  • eliminatory — Tending to eliminate.
  • embryonated — Containing an embryo.
  • energy crop — plant cultivated for fuel
  • enterectomy — surgical excision of part of the intestine
  • enterocytes — Plural form of enterocyte.
  • enteropathy — A disease of the intestine, especially the small intestine.
  • enterostomy — An ileostomy or similar surgical operation in which the small intestine is diverted to an artificial opening in the abdominal wall or in another part of the intestine.
  • epoxy resin — any of various tough resistant thermosetting synthetic resins containing epoxy groups: used in surface coatings, laminates, and adhesives
  • erosionally — In an erosional manner; by means of erosion.
  • erroneously — In an erroneous manner.
  • erythronium — A plant of a genus that includes dogtooth violet.
  • erythrosine — a fluorone, tetraiodo-fluorescein, which is used as a red food colouring (E127) and in biological staining
  • ethnography — The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
  • exboyfriend — Alternative form of ex-boyfriend.
  • exorbitancy — Alternative form of exorbitance.
  • explanatory — Serving to explain something.
  • extenuatory — Tending to extenuate or palliate.
  • fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
  • ferrocyanic — (inorganic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from a ferrocyanide.
  • flying frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
  • flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
  • forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
  • foreign key — (database)   A column in a database table containing values that are also found in some primary key column (of a different table). By extension, any reference to entities of a different type. Some RDBMSs allow a column to be explicitly labelled as a foreign key and only allow values to be inserted if they already exist in the relevant primary key column.
  • forepayment — prepayment
  • foresignify — to signify in advance
  • forgivingly — In a forgiving way.
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