16-letter words containing a, c, e, t, y
- acanthopterygian — of, relating to, or belonging to the Acanthopterygii, a large group of teleost fishes having spiny fin rays. The group includes most saltwater bony fishes
- accounts payable — A company's accounts payable are all the money that it owes to other companies for goods or services that it has received, or a list of these companies and the amounts owed to them.
- acetic anhydride — a colourless pungent liquid used in the manufacture of cellulose and vinyl acetates for synthetic fabrics. Formula: (CH3CO)2O
- acetyl promazine — acepromazine
- acetylandromedol — grayanotoxin.
- acetylene series — a group of similar hydrocarbons
- acetylsalicylate — a salt or ester of acetylsalicylic acid.
- acid house party — a professionally organized party for young people, with Acid House music, sometimes held in a field or disused building
- act of indemnity — an act of Parliament granting exemption to public officers from technical penalties that they may have been compelled to incur
- actinopterygians — Plural form of actinopterygian.
- active directory — (operating system) A directory service from Microsoft Corporation, similar in concept to Novell Netware Directory Services, that also integrates with the user organisation's DNS structure and is interoperable with LDAP. Active Directory is included in Windows 2000.
- advisory teacher — a teacher who visits schools to advise teachers on curriculum developments within a particular subject area
- affluent society — a society in which the material benefits of prosperity are widely available
- agency agreement — an agreement between a business and an agent appointed to promote its interests
- alder flycatcher — a North American flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum, of alder thickets and other moist areas, that has greenish-brown upper parts and whitish underparts and is almost indistinguishable except by voice from E. traillii (willow flycatcher)
- alimentary canal — The alimentary canal in a person or animal is the passage in their body through which food passes from their mouth to their anus.
- alloyed junction — a semiconductor junction used in some junction transistors and formed by alloying metal contacts, functioning as emitter and collector regions, to a wafer of semiconductor that acts as the base region
- amebic dysentery — a form of dysentery caused by an amoeba (Entamoeba histolytica)
- american tragedy — a novel (1925) by Theodore Dreiser.
- ammonium cyanate — a white, crystalline solid, CH 4 N 2 O, soluble in alcohol, that is converted into urea when heated.
- analytical entry — a bibliographic record of part of an item for which a comprehensive bibliographic record has been made, as a single play or essay in an anthology, a subject in a comprehensive work, or a part of a multivolume set of books.
- angular velocity — the velocity of a body rotating about a specified axis measured as the rate of change of the angle subtended at that axis by the path of the body
- anomalistic year — the interval between two successive passages of the earth through perihelion; 365.25964 mean solar days
- anticyclogenesis — the intensification or development of an anticyclone.
- antipathetically — In an antipathetic fashion.
- antirecessionary — used to counteract or offest the economic effects of a recession: the president's antirecessionary program.
- archaeoastronomy — the scientific study of the beliefs and practices concerning astronomy that existed in ancient and prehistoric civilizations
- arteriocapillary — Relating to the arteries and the capillaries.
- ascending rhythm — rising rhythm.
- astroarchaeology — archaeoastronomy.
- attorney-in-fact — a person authorized by power of attorney to act on the authorizer's behalf outside a court of law.
- auditory vesicle — the pouch that is formed by the invagination of an ectodermal placode and that develops into the internal ear.
- baltimore canyon — a submarine valley cut into the continental shelf and slope seaward of Chesapeake Bay.
- bankruptcy order — a court order appointing a receiver to manage the property of a debtor or bankrupt
- barclay de tolly — Prince Mikhail (mixaˈil). 1761–1818, Russian field marshal: commander in chief against Napoleon in 1812
- batesian mimicry — mimicry in which a harmless species is protected from predators by means of its resemblance to a harmful or inedible species
- bayonet practice — drill in the use of a bayonet
- bearish tendency — a tendency for share prices to fall
- bidirectionality — capable of reacting or functioning in two, usually opposite, directions.
- black-letter day — an unlucky or tragic day.
- buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
- bureaucratically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
- bury the hatchet — to cease hostilities and become reconciled
- buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
- byzantine church — Orthodox Church (def 1).
- cabbage root fly — a dipterous fly, Erioischia brassicae, whose larvae feed on the roots and stems of cabbages and other brassicas: family Muscidae (houseflies, etc)
- calorimetrically — In a calorimetric manner.
- can you beat it? — an expression of utter amazement or surprise
- canterbury bells — a cultivated bellflower (Campanula medium) with white, pink, or blue cuplike flowers
- canterbury tales — an unfinished literary work by Chaucer, largely in verse, consisting of stories told by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket at Canterbury
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