10-letter words containing o, d, y, n
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- duty-bound — If you say you are duty-bound to do something, you are emphasizing that you feel it is your duty to do it.
- dyscontrol — The inability to control one's behavior.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- endocytose — (cytology) Of a cell, to ingest material by folding the plasma membrane inwards around it.
- endoenzyme — (enzyme) Any enzyme that functions within the cell in which it was generated.
- endomysium — A layer of connective tissue which surrounds individual muscle fibers.
- endophytes — Plural form of endophyte.
- endophytic — Of or relating to an endophyte.
- endothermy — (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism.
- enforcedly — In a way that is enforced.
- entry word — in book
- ependymoma — (medicine) A tumour of the central nervous system.
- epicondyle — (anatomy) A protuberance above the condyle of a bone to which ligaments or tendons are attached.
- errand boy — boy who carries messages, go-between
- euroclydon — a stormy wind from the north or northeast that occurs in the Levant, which caused the ship in which St Paul was travelling to be wrecked (Acts 27:14)
- flunkeydom — The state of a being a flunkey.
- fondlingly — In a fondling manner.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- fundectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- funduscopy — Ophthalmoscopic examination of the fundus of the eye.
- ginglymoid — of, relating to, or resembling a ginglymus.
- glyptodont — any edentate mammal of the extinct genus Glyptodon, of the Pleistocene Epoch, having the body covered by a horny and bony armor.
- golden boy — a man or boy who is especially popular and successful
- goldeneyes — Plural form of goldeneye.
- goldwynism — a phrase or statement involving a humorous and supposedly unintentional misuse of idiom, as “Keep a stiff upper chin,” especially such a statement attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, as “Include me out.”.
- gooneybird — an informal name for the albatross, esp the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
- grey nomad — any elderly retired person who spends time travelling around the country in a mobile home
- greyhounds — Plural form of greyhound.
- ground ivy — a creeping, aromatic plant, Glechoma hederacea, of the mint family, having rounded leaves and whorling clusters of small blue flowers.
- groundedly — in a grounded manner, or with good justification or reason
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- handywoman — Female equivalent of handyman.
- handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
- hard money — (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign
- head money — a tax of so much per head or person.
- henry ford — Elizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- 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.
- holy synod — the governing council of an autocephalous church, composed of bishops and presided over by the patriarch or another prelate.
- holystoned — Simple past tense and past participle of holystone.
- honeyguide — any of a family (Indicatoridae) of small, heavily built, drab-colored piciform birds of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies: they are said to lead people or animals to bees' nests in order to eat the grubs and wax discarded by the people, etc. when they take the honeycombs
- hoydenhood — the condition of a rude, ill-bred or boisterous and noisy girl or woman, or a tomboy
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- hunky-dory — about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- hydrogenic — (chemistry) hydrogen-like.
- hydromancy — divination by means of the motions or appearance of water.