10-letter words containing y, a, r, d, i
- dish gravy — meat juices, as from a roast, served as a gravy without seasoning or thickening.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- dithyrambs — Plural form of dithyramb.
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- diyarbakir — a city in SE Turkey in Asia, on the Tigris River.
- draggingly — In a way that drags; with a dragging motion.
- drainlayer — a person trained to build or repair drains
- drawlingly — Speaking with a drawl.
- dreadingly — With dread.
- dreamingly — In a dreamy manner.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- dwarfishly — In a dwarfish manner.
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- dysarthria — Difficult or unclear articulation of speech that is otherwise linguistically normal.
- dysarthric — Afflicted with, or pertaining to, dysarthria.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysgraphia — inability to write, caused by cerebral lesion.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dyspractic — relating to or affected by dyspraxia
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- early bird — a person who rises at an early hour.
- empire day — a former holiday celebrated in the British Empire on May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday
- faldistory — a bishop's seat or throne
- field army — army (def 2).
- first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- fraidy-cat — a timid, easily frightened person: often used by children.
- 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.
- 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.
- guy friday — a man 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.
- gynandrism — hermaphroditism.
- 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.
- 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.
- hybrid car — vehicle with combined power source
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- 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.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.
- hydrically — in a hydric manner; in a manner using water or moisture
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydromania — an excessive craving or love for water