10-letter words containing r, e, a, d, y
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- early bird — a person who rises at an early hour.
- early days — initial stages
- early wood — springwood.
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- elder days — The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- empire day — a former holiday celebrated in the British Empire on May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday
- enlargedly — in an enlarged manner
- errand boy — boy who carries messages, go-between
- field army — army (def 2).
- freddy mac — (in the US) an informal name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a private company that buys and sells mortgage debt
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gendarmery — Alternative spelling of gendarmerie.
- 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.
- graveyards — Plural form of graveyard.
- graybeards — Plural form of graybeard.
- grey alder — a variety of alder (Alnus incana) with grey bark, common in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere
- grey nomad — any elderly retired person who spends time travelling around the country in a mobile home
- greyheaded — having grey hair
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- hard money — (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign
- head rhyme — beginning rhyme.
- henry dale — Sir Henry Hallett [hal-it] /ˈhæl ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1875–1968, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hydra code — (humour, programming) Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypermedia — hypertext
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- i dare say — (it is) quite possible (that)
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- immoderacy — immoderation.
- incendiary — used or adapted for setting property on fire: incendiary bombs.
- karyotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of karyotype.