9-letter words containing y, a, r, d, i
- disarrays — Plural form of disarray.
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- dissarray — Misspelling of disarray.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- ditionary — (obsolete) A subject; a tributary.
- diurnally — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- drip tray — a tray, sometimes with a slotted cover, designed to catch drips, as under a beer tap, sump, plant pot, etc
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- dry basis — The dry basis is a measure of how much water is in a solid, which is expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry solid.
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- dynamiter — A person who uses dynamite, especially one who uses it unlawfully.
- dyscrasia — An abnormal or disordered state of the body or of a bodily part.
- dyscrasic — relating to, resulting from, or suffering from dyscrasia
- dyscratic — having or suffering from dyscrasia
- dysmetria — the inability to conform muscular action to desired movements because of faulty judgment of distance.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dyspraxia — inability to perform coordinated movements.
- dyspraxic — Of or pertaining to dyspraxia.
- fairyhood — a fairy nature or state: the fairyhood of Puck.
- fairyland — the imaginary realm of fairies.
- fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- first day — (among Quakers) Sunday.
- gravidity — pregnant1 (def 1).
- hairdryer — (chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hyder ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydraemia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydramide — (organic compound) One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
- hydramine — an amine derived from a glycol in which one hydroxyl is replaced by an amino group.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- hydrating — Present participle of hydrate.
- hydration — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydrazide — (chemistry) any compound derived from an oxoacid by replacing the hydroxide group with -NHNH2 or derived forms -NRNR2.
- hydrazine — Also called diamine. a colorless, oily, fuming liquid, N 2 H 4 , that is a weak base in solution and forms a large number of salts resembling ammonium salts: used chiefly as a reducing agent and a jet-propulsion fuel.
- hydrazoic — noting or pertaining to hydrazoic acid; triazoic.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hyperarid — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- idiocracy — Government that is based upon abstract theory.
- idiocrasy — idiosyncrasy.
- idiolatry — Autolatry, or self worship.
- idolatory — Misspelling of idolatry.
- irrawaddy — a river flowing S through Burma (Myanmar) to the Bay of Bengal. 1250 miles (2015 km) long.
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.