10-letter words containing u, y
- dehumidify — to remove water from (something, esp the air)
- delusively — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- desirously — With desire; eagerly.
- desk study — a preliminary investigation and report into something collating currently available relevant information
- dextrously — Alternative form of dexterously.
- didynamous — (of plants) having four stamens arranged in two pairs of unequal length, as in the foxglove
- difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- diffusedly — in a diffused manner
- diphyllous — having two leaves.
- discursory — of or relating to discourse
- disfluency — Pathology. impairment of the ability to produce smooth, fluent speech.
- disputably — In a disputable manner.
- disqualify — to deprive of qualification or fitness; render unfit; incapacitate.
- disquietly — In a disquiet manner.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- disutility — the quality of causing inconvenience, harm, distress, etc.
- diuturnity — a long period of time; lastingness
- dolorously — In a dolorous manner.
- double day — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- doubtfully — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- dramaturgy — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- dreadfully — in a dreadful way: The pain has increased dreadfully.
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- drudgingly — a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
- druidology — the study of the religion, customs, and practices of the Druids.
- drury lane — a street in London, England, formerly notable for its theaters, named after the house Sir William Drury built there in the reign of Henry VIII.
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- dulcifying — Present participle of dulcify.
- dulciloquy — a way of speaking that is mellow and agreeable
- dumb bunny — a stupid person.
- dummy head — a model of the human head with a microphone in each ear intended to receive sound in binaural and surround sound reproduction and transmission
- dummy load — a resistive component that absorbs all the output power of an electrical generator or radio transmitter in order to simulate working conditions for test purposes
- dune buggy — vehicle used on sand
- dune-buggy — to drive or ride in a dune buggy.
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- dust bunny — Slang. a loose, tangled ball of dust, lint, hair, etc., especially as found under a low piece of furniture.
- dust kitty — a dust ball.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- 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.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- dysfluency — disfluency.
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- ebulliency — Ebullience.
- effusively — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- eloquently — In an eloquent manner; stated well.