9-letter words containing y, n, e
- damyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- day-clean — the time after first dawn when the sun begins to shine; clear daybreak
- day-liner — a train, boat, etc., having a regularly scheduled route during daylight hours.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- de lancey — James, 1703–60, American jurist and politician in New York.
- de-hyphen — a short line (-) used to connect the parts of a compound word or the parts of a word divided for any purpose.
- decadency — the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay: Some historians hold that the fall of Rome can be attributed to internal decadence.
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- deejaying — the activity of performing as a disc jockey
- defensory — (archaic) Tending to defend; defensive.
- defiantly — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
- definably — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- definatly — Misspelling of definitely.
- definetly — Misspelling of definitely.
- defraying — Present participle of defray.
- demonymic — Having characteristics of a demonym.
- denitrify — to undergo or cause to undergo loss or removal of nitrogen compounds or nitrogen
- dentality — the quality given to spoken words by the use of teeth
- dentistry — Dentistry is the work done by a dentist.
- denyingly — in a denying manner
- deploying — Present participle of deploy.
- descrying — Present participle of descry.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- dictyogen — a monocotyledon with reticulated leaves
- diligency — (obsolete) diligence; care.
- diphenyl- — containing two phenyl groups in each molecule
- dissogeny — the condition in ctenophores in which an individual has two periods of sexual maturity, one in the larval and one in the adult stage.
- dizzyness — Alternative spelling of dizziness.
- do nicely — If someone or something is doing nicely, they are being successful.
- downcycle — a downward course in the business cycle.
- downgyved — (poetic, obsolete) Hanging down like gyves or fetters.
- drunkenly — intoxicated; drunk.
- dry nurse — a nurse who cares for a child without suckling it
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- duodenary — duodecimal.
- dyingness — the nature or condition of expiring or declining
- dynameter — an instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes
- dynamited — Simple past tense and past participle of dynamite.
- dynamiter — A person who uses dynamite, especially one who uses it unlawfully.
- dynamites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dynamite.
- dynasties — Plural form of dynasty.
- dysentery — Infection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces.
- dysfluent — Without proper fluency; not fluent.
- dysgenics — the study of the operation of factors that cause degeneration in offspring.
- dysmnesia — an impairment of memory.
- dyspnoeal — Pertaining to, or of the nature of dyspnoea; in connexion with dyspnoea.