10-letter words containing dy
- gentlelady — A polite form of a address for a woman, used especially to a congresswoman during a congressional debate.
- golgi body — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
- good buddy — Citizens Band Radio Slang. the operator of a CB radio; fellow operator (often used as a form of direct address while broadcasting).
- granddaddy — grandfather.
- greedyguts — (informal) A greedy person.
- half-hardy — having moderate resistance to cold temperatures.
- handy-andy — a handyman.
- handy-pack — a pack of a product that is useful or convenient in some way, because, for example, it is easy to transport, or because it contains a variety of flavours, colours, etc
- handywoman — Female equivalent of handyman.
- handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
- hard candy — candy, often fruit flavored, made by boiling together sugar and corn syrup.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- in custody — Someone who is in custody or has been taken into custody has been arrested and is being kept in prison until they can be tried in a court.
- isodynamic — pertaining to or characterized by equality of force, intensity, or the like.
- lady apple — a small, yellow apple with a red blush, grown as a specialty variety, and used for eating and in commercial canning.
- lady's man — a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.
- ladybeetle — ladybug.
- ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
- ladykiller — A charming man who is very attractive to women.
- lardy cake — a rich sweet cake made of bread dough, lard, sugar, and dried fruit
- low comedy — comedy that depends on physical action, broadly humorous or farcical situations, and often bawdy or vulgar jokes.
- lundy isle — an island at the mouth of the Bristol Channel, off Devon, SW England: historic refuge for pirates and smugglers. 1.5 sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
- mack daddy — a prominent or successful pimp
- make ready — the state or condition of being ready.
- make-ready — Printing. the process of preparing a form for printing by overlays or underlays to equalize the impression.
- mastodynia — (medicine) mastalgia; pain in the breast.
- metecdysis — the period following the moult (ecdysis) of an arthropod, when the new cuticle is forming
- mixoploidy — an organism having an unequal number of chromosome sets in adjacent cells or tissues.
- mouldy fig — a rigid adherent to older jazz forms
- naked lady — amaryllis (def 2).
- naked-lady — any of several bulbous plants of the genus Hippeastrum, especially H. puniceum, which has large red or pink flowers and is popular as a houseplant. Compare amaryllis family.
- narrowbody — (aeronautics) An airliner capable of seating six or less passengers in a single row of economy seating, with one aisle.
- negri body — any of the microscopic bodies found in the nerve cells of animals affected with rabies.
- neurodynia — (pathology) nerve pain; neuralgia.
- new comedy — Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.
- nondynamic — pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active or forceful; energetic: the dynamic president of the firm.
- nose candy — cocaine.
- octaploidy — the fact of having or containing eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- old comedy — Greek comedy of the 5th century b.c., which derived from fertility rites in honor of Dionysus and combined robust humor with biting personal and political satire.
- oven-ready — (of various foods) bought already prepared so that they are ready to be cooked in the oven
- overgreedy — too greedy
- paddy last — the last person in a race or competition
- paddymelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
- piece-dyed — dyed after weaving (opposed to yarn-dyed).
- pik pobedy — Russian name of Pobeda Peak.
- polar body — one of the minute cells arising from the unequal meiotic divisions of the ovum at or near the time of fertilization.