Words Containing: D,Y,S,T

• a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family

• a state of being confined (usually for a short time)

• holding by the police

• (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child

• something that can be relied on when needed

• an actor able to replace a regular performer when required

• ready for emergency use

• freedom from vanity or conceit

• formality and propriety of manner

• a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole

• a thwarting and distressing situation

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables

• a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates

• do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• put (an animal) to death

• an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

• the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)