9-letter words containing y, a
- dilatedly — In a dilated manner.
- dilly bag — a bag made from reeds, grasses, or hair.
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- dionysian — of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
- diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
- dipyramid — bipyramid.
- dirty war — a war conducted by the military or secret police of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the regime's use of kidnapping, torture, and murder, with members of the civilian population often the victims.
- disarrays — Plural form of disarray.
- dismality — the quality of being dismal
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- dismaying — Present participle of dismay.
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- displayed — (of a bird) represented with wings and legs spread: an eagle displayed.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- dissarray — Misspelling of disarray.
- dist atty — District Attorney
- distantly — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
- 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.
- ditty bag — a small bag used especially by sailors to hold sewing implements, toiletries, etc.
- diurnally — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- doability — Feasibility; practicability.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- doggy bag — a small bag provided on request by a restaurant for a customer to carry home leftovers of a meal, ostensibly to feed a dog or other pet.
- dogmatory — dogmatic
- domically — in the manner or shape of a dome
- dominancy — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- doubleday — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- doubtably — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- downy oak — Quercus pubescens
- dragonfly — any of numerous stout-bodied, nonstinging insects of the order Odonata (suborder Anisoptera), the species of which prey on mosquitoes and other insects and are distinguished from the damselflies by having the wings outstretched rather than folded when at rest.
- drake fly — mayfly (def 2).
- draw away — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw play — draw (def 54).
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- 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.
- dromedary — the single-humped camel, Camelus dromedarius, of Arabia and northern Africa.
- drop away — become fewer
- 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.
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- dry steam — steam that does not contain droplets of water
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dryasdust — a dull, pedantic person
- drysalter — a dealer in dry chemicals and dyes.