9-letter words containing y, n
- cyrenaica — a region and former province (1951–63) of E Libya: largely desert; settled by the Greeks in about 630 bc; ruled successively by the Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Italians. Area: 855 370 sq km (330 258 sq miles)
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- cytokines — Plural form of cytokine.
- cytokinin — any of a group of plant hormones that promote cell division and retard ageing in plants
- cytolysin — a substance that can partially or completely destroy animal cells
- cytopenia — a condition characterized by a deficiency of a type of blood cells
- cytotoxin — any substance that is poisonous to living cells
- dairyland — an area or region specializing in dairy production, as Wisconsin and Minnesota in the U.S.
- damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
- damningly — in a damning manner
- 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.
- dandruffy — Dandrufflike.
- dandyfunk — a type of dessert typically eaten at sea, consisting of a cake or biscuit baked in fat and molasses
- darlingly — in a darling or charming manner
- dartingly — In a darting manner; rapidly.
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- 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.
- daycation — a day trip to a resort, hotel, etc that does not involve staying the night
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- dayspring — the dawn
- 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.
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- dialyzing — to subject to dialysis; separate or procure by dialysis.
- dictyogen — a monocotyledon with reticulated leaves
- dignitary — a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church.
- dilatancy — dilating; expanding.