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ADRY

Definition: ADRY

ADRY

Adjective

1. In a dry or thirsty condition.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Adry \A*dry"\, adjective. [Prefix a- (for on) dry.]. (Websters 1913)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: ADRY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

adry

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: ADRY

Derivations

Words ending with "ADRY": balladry, ultradry. (additional references)

Words containing "ADRY": hamadryad, hamadryades, hamadryads. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ADRY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dray, yard.

Words within the letters "a-d-r-y"

-1 letter: day, dry, rad, ray, rya, yar.

-2 letters: ad, ar, ay, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-r-y"
 

+1 letter: dairy, darky, deary, deray, diary, drays, dryad, hardy, hydra, lardy, lyard, pardy, randy, rayed, ready, tardy, yaird, yards.

 

+2 letters: aridly, bawdry, bayard, boyard, brandy, brayed, bready, byroad, darkey, darkly, datary, daubry, dearly, defray, denary, derays, drably, draffy, drafty, draggy, drapey, drawly, drayed, dreamy, dreary, dryads, frayed, grayed, hardly, hydrae, hydras, hydria, myriad, parody, prayed, redbay, sudary, tawdry, yairds, yarded, yarned.

 

+3 letters: acridly, already, ardency, aridity, arrayed, bayards, beeyard, boyards, broadly, byroads, daresay, darkeys, dasyure, daubery, daymare, dayroom, daystar, daywork, deanery, decayer, defrays, delayer, diarchy, dietary, doorway, dramedy, drapery, drayage, draying, drayman, draymen, dryable, dryades, dryadic, dryland, drywall, durably, dyarchy, dysuria, faraday, feodary, feudary, forayed, gaudery, grandly, gyrated, halyard, hardily, hayride, hayward, hydrant, hydrase, hydrate, hydriae, jaybird, keycard, lairdly, lanyard, laundry, layered, lyrated, midyear, myriads, organdy, pedlary, pyralid, pyramid, rabidly, raggedy, rapidly, readily, redbays, relayed, reynard, roadway, satyrid, skyward, sprayed, strayed, tanyard, tardily, tardyon, thready, tragedy, unready, wayward, workday, yardage, yardarm, yarding, yardman, yardmen, yearend, yearned, zedoary.

 

+4 letters: absurdly, acridity, additory, adorably, adroitly, adultery, advisory, aerodyne, affrayed, alderfly, ardently, aroynted, auditory, ayurveda, backyard, badgerly, balladry, banditry, barnyard, bastardy, bayadeer, bayadere, beeyards, betrayed, bewrayed, birthday, bladdery, boatyard, boneyard, boundary, bridally, carboyed, caryatid, charlady, cityward, coalyard, condylar, copyread, cowardly, crayoned, custardy, dairying, dairyman, dairymen, dapperly, daringly, dasyures, daybreak, daydream, daymares, dayrooms, daystars, dayworks, deaconry, decayers, decenary, deeryard, defrayal, defrayed, defrayer, delayers, diablery, dialyser, dialyzer, dilatory, disarray, dockyard, doorways, dooryard, dormancy, dorsally, dotardly, draftily, draughty, drayages, dreamily, drearily, driveway, drywalls, dyarchic, dynatron, dysurias, endarchy, estrayed, everyday, faradays, farmyard, federacy, forelady, foreyard, gadgetry, gardyloo, gravidly, gynandry, gyroidal, halyards, haulyard, hayrides, haywards, heraldry, hoorayed, hurrayed, hydracid, hydragog, hydranth, hydrants, hydrases, hydrated, hydrates, hydrator, hyracoid, idolatry, intraday, inwardly, jaybirds, jeopardy, junkyard, kailyard, kaleyard, keyboard, keycards, ladybird, lampyrid, lanyards, lapidary, lawyered, markedly, martyred, midyears, misandry, monandry, mordancy, mustardy, myriapod, nondairy, nonhardy, obduracy, ordinary, parlayed, parleyed, paygrade, pedantry, podiatry, pyoderma, pyralids, pyramids, pyranoid, quandary, rabidity, radially, radiancy, raggedly, rancidly, randomly, rapidity, readably, readerly, readying, repandly, replayed, reynards, rhapsody, ribaldly, ribaldry, roadways, sacredly, saddlery, sardonyx, satyrids, shipyard, skywards, solidary, sudatory, tanyards, tardyons, tawdrily, tiltyard, towardly, ultradry, underlay, underpay, underway, upwardly, variedly, verdancy, vineyard, wardenry, willyard, wizardly, wizardry, wordplay, workaday, workdays, yabbered, yammered, yardages, yardarms, yardbird, yardland, yardwand, yardwork, yattered, yearends.

 

+5 letters: absurdity, admirably, admiralty, adoringly, adulatory, adversary, adversely, adversity, aerodynes, androgyne, androgyny, anhydride, anhydrite, anhydrous, archduchy, arduously, arytenoid, assuredly, awkwardly, ayurvedas, backyards, barnyards, bastardly, bayadeers, bayaderes, bipyramid, birthdays, blarneyed, blizzardy, boatyards, bodyguard, boneyards, brandying, brickyard, budgetary, bystander, candygram, caryatids, chandlery, chrysalid, clepsydra, coalyards, comradely, comradery, copyreads, cordately, cordially, corydalis, courtyard, crazyweed, dairyings, dairymaid, damnatory, dandruffy, darlingly, dastardly, daybreaks, daydreams, daydreamt, dayflower, daytrader, deeryards, defrayals, defrayers, defraying, dehydrate, democracy, depravity, desirably, deviatory, diachrony, dialysers, dialyzers, diathermy, dietarily, dignitary, disarrays, disparity, dithyramb, diurnally, dockyards, doomsayer, dooryards, dragonfly, driveways, dromedary, dryasdust, drysalter, dyarchies, dynamiter, dynamotor, dynatrons, dyscrasia, dysphoria, earlywood, endurably, fairyland, farmyards, federally, feudatory, fiduciary, foolhardy, foreyards, forwardly, frowardly, gargoyled, gradually, grandaddy, grandbaby, graveyard, gravidity, graybeard, guardedly, haggardly, hamadryad, haulyards, holidayer, husbandry, hybridoma, hydracids, hydragogs, hydrangea, hydranths, hydrating, hydration, hydrators, hydraulic, hydrazide, hydrazine, hydrolase, hydrozoan, hyperacid, hyperarid, hyracoids, judiciary, junkyards, kailyards, kaleyards, keyboards, ladybirds, laggardly, lampyrids, laudatory, learnedly, legendary, makeready, mandatary, mandatory, martyrdom, mediatory, medullary, modularly, mordantly, mydriases, mydriasis, mydriatic, myocardia, myriapods, niggardly, outprayed, outwardly, pachyderm, paralysed, paralyzed, parodying, parsleyed, paygrades, pederasty, polyandry, polyhedra, portrayed, predacity, predatory, pyodermas, pyramidal, pyramided, pyridoxal, quadruply, radiantly, radiately, radically, radiology, rancidity, readymade, redisplay, rehydrate, relatedly, relaxedly, residuary, resprayed, roundelay, secondary, sedentary, shadberry, shipyards, skylarked, steelyard, stockyard, swordplay, taxidermy, thyroidal, tiltyards, underlays, underpays, underplay, unsprayed, verdantly, vineyards, waywardly, wordplays, yardbirds, yardlands, yardstick, yardwands, yardworks, yesterday, zemindary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ADRY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 44 52 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -..    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000100 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0052 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35385259

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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