11-letter words containing y, n
- discernibly — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discordancy — discordance (defs 1–3).
- discrepancy — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- disentrayle — to pass out as if from the entrails
- dishonestly — In a dishonest manner.
- dishonorary — tending to dishonour or disgrace
- disidentify — (intransitive) Not to identify with something; to reject a personal or group identity, etc.
- dismayingly — In a manner that causes dismay.
- dispensably — in a dispensable manner
- disposingly — in a way that disposes
- disquantity — to diminish in quantity; make less.
- dissonantly — In a dissonant manner.
- disunifying — Present participle of disunify.
- divergently — diverging; differing; deviating.
- divergingly — in a diverging manner
- divertingly — In a diverting manner.
- divisionary — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- doctrinally — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
- 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.
- donkey ride — a ride on the back of a donkey, esp for recreation
- donkey vote — a vote on a preferential ballot on which the voter's order of preference follows the order in which the candidates are listed
- donkey work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donkey-lick — to defeat decisively
- donkey-work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- donnybrooks — Plural form of donnybrook.
- downpayment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- downplaying — Present participle of downplay.
- doxycycline — a synthetic analog of a broad-spectrum antibiotic tetracycline drug, C 22 H 24 N 2 O 8 , used against a wide range of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
- draftsmanly — Befitting a draftsman; geometrically artistic.
- dragon lady — (often initial capital letters) a woman of somewhat sinister glamour often perceived as wielding ruthless or corrupt power.
- drainageway — a conduit, ditch, or the like, for draining water from an area.
- drizzlingly — With drizzle, or light rain.
- dry cleaner — a business that dry-cleans garments, draperies, etc.
- dry farming — a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage
- dry martini — cocktail
- dry-cleanse — to dry-clean.
- dry-footing — removal of glaze from the rim at the bottom of a piece.
- duck typing — (programming) A term coined by Dave Thomas for a kind of dynamic typing typical of some programming languages, such as Smalltalk, Ruby or Visual FoxPro, where a variable's run-time value determines the operations that can be performed on it. The term comes from the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Duck typing considers the methods to which a value responds and the attributes it posesses rather than its relationship to a type hierarchy. This encourages greater polymorphism because types are enforced as late as possible.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dummy joint — a slot cut into a concrete slab to prevent serious fractures.
- dynamic ram — dynamic random-access memory
- dynamically — Of a dynamic nature; variable or constantly changing nature.
- dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
- dynamometer — An instrument that measures the power output of an engine.
- dynamometry — The measurement of forces doing work.
- dynasticism — a system of government in which the rulers are all drawn from the same family
- dysfunction — Medicine/Medical. malfunctioning, as of an organ or structure of the body.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.