11-letter words containing y, a, u, d
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- dismayfully — in a dismayful manner
- disquantity — to diminish in quantity; make less.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- douay bible — an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.
- double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
- dry as dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- dry measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring dry commodities, as grain or fruit. In the U.S. 2 pints = 1 quart (1.101 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (8.810 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (35.24 liters). In Great Britain 2 pints = 1 quart (1.136 liters); 4 quarts = 1 gallon (4.546 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (9.092 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (36.37 liters); 8 bushels = 1 quarter (291.0 liters).
- dry-as-dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dusky shark — a blue-gray shark, Carcharinus obscurus, of warm Atlantic and eastern Pacific seas, reaching a length of 12 feet (3.7 meters).
- dyscalculia — Severe difficulty in making arithmetical calculations, as a result of brain disorder.
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- dysregulate — (biology) To cause a dysfunctional level of an activity or chemical in an organism by disrupting normal function of a regulatory mechanism.
- educability — capable of being educated.
- elucidatory — Serving to elucidate.
- equity card — a card proving membership of an actors' trade union
- exhaustedly — In an exhausted manner.
- fiduciarily — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- fraudulency — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
- grand duchy — a territory ruled by a grand duke or grand duchess.
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- head injury — wound to the head
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
- hydrargyrum — mercury.
- hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
- hydroxyurea — a synthetic compound, CH 4 N 2 O 2 , used in cancer therapy.
- indubitably — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
- juridically — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- laudability — Laudableness.
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- laundry van — a van driven by a laundry worker and which is used in the collection and delivery of laundry
- legacy duty — estate tax; inheritance tax
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- mal du pays — homesickness.
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- many-valued — (of a function) having the property that some elements in the domain have more than one image point; multiple-valued.
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- muck-up day — the last day of school before the annual examinations, marked by practical jokes and other student pranks
- mushyheaded — inadequately thought out: mushyheaded ideas.
- near-nudity — the state of not wearing many clothes
- nonauditory — not auditory, not related to hearing or its functions
- nurserymaid — Nursemaid.
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- pay dispute — a disagreement between workers and employers concerning salary