10-letter words containing y, e, r, s
- desolatory — tending to cause desolation
- destratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- destroyers — Plural form of destroyer.
- destroyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of destroy.
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- dextrously — Alternative form of dexterously.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- discreetly — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discretely — apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
- disorderly — characterized by disorder; irregular; untidy; confused: a disorderly desk.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- distillery — a place or establishment where distilling, especially the distilling of liquors, is done.
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry offset — letterset.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- early days — initial stages
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- easy chair — an upholstered armchair for lounging.
- elder days — The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- embryo sac — the structure within a plant ovule that contains the egg cell: develops from the megaspore and contains the embryo plant and endosperm after fertilization
- encrypters — Plural form of encrypter.
- energyless — Without energy.
- enormously — To a very great degree or extent; considerably.
- entry visa — a visa giving official permission to enter a country of which you are not a national
- epistolary — Relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form of letters.
- erymanthus — Mountmountain in the NW Peloponnesus, Greece: 7,297 ft (2,224 m): in Greek mythology, haunt of a savage boar captured by Hercules
- erysipelas — An acute, sometimes recurrent disease caused by a bacterial infection. It is characterized by large, raised red patches on the skin, especially that of the face and legs, with fever and severe general illness.
- escalatory — tending to escalate
- esuriently — In an esurient manner.
- eukaryotes — Plural form of eukaryote.
- euphrosyne — one of the three Graces
- eurystheus — a grandson of Perseus, who, through the favour of Hera, inherited the kingship of Mycenae, which Zeus had intended for Hercules
- eurythmics — A rhythmic interpretation of music with graceful, free-style dance movements.
- every last — You use every last to emphasize that you are talking about all the people or things in a group or all the parts of something.
- excusatory — Serving to make an excuse.
- expository — Intended to explain or describe something.
- expressway — A highway designed for fast traffic, with controlled entrance and exit, a dividing strip between the traffic in opposite directions, and typically two or more lanes in each direction.
- eye strain — If you suffer from eye strain, you feel pain around your eyes or at the back of your eyes, because you are very tired or should be wearing glasses.