10-letter words containing y, s
- disqualify — to deprive of qualification or fitness; render unfit; incapacitate.
- disquietly — In a disquiet manner.
- dissatisfy — to cause to be displeased, especially by failing to provide something expected or desired.
- dissonancy — dissonance.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- distillery — a place or establishment where distilling, especially the distilling of liquors, is done.
- distinctly — in a distinct manner; clearly: Speak more distinctly.
- disutility — the quality of causing inconvenience, harm, distress, etc.
- disyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to two syllables.
- disyllable — a word of two syllables.
- dithyrambs — Plural form of dithyramb.
- divisively — In a divisive manner.
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- dolesomely — in a doleful manner
- dolly shot — a camera shot taken from a moving dolly.
- dolly-posh — left-handed
- dolorously — In a dolorous manner.
- doohickeys — Plural form of doohickey.
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsaying — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- dory skiff — an open boat similar to but smaller than a dory.
- dostoevsky — Fyodor Mikhailovich [fyoh-der mi-kahy-luh-vich;; Russian fyaw-duh r myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈfyoʊ dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈfyɔ dər myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1821–81, Russian novelist.
- 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.
- dust bunny — Slang. a loose, tangled ball of dust, lint, hair, etc., especially as found under a low piece of furniture.
- dust kitty — a dust ball.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- dwarfishly — In a dwarfish manner.
- dynamicist — a person who investigates and researches dynamics
- dynamitism — The work of dynamiters.
- dyophysite — the presence of the divine and human natures in Jesus Christ
- dysarthria — Difficult or unclear articulation of speech that is otherwise linguistically normal.
- dysarthric — Afflicted with, or pertaining to, dysarthria.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dyscontrol — The inability to control one's behavior.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dysfluency — disfluency.
- dysgenesis — Pathology. defective development of an organ, as of the gonads in Klinefelter's syndrome.
- dysgenetic — (genetics) Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
- dysgraphia — inability to write, caused by cerebral lesion.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- dyskinesia — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.