11-letter words containing a, c, e, y
- arthrectomy — surgical excision of a joint
- ascendantly — in an ascendant manner
- ascendingly — moving upward; rising.
- ascetically — a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
- ascomycetes — any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota (or class Ascomycetes), including the molds and truffles, characterized by bearing the sexual spores in a sac (as distinguished from basidiomycete).
- aseptically — in a non-putrefying manner
- astringency — An astringent taste.
- asynartetic — having or containing two different types of metre
- atherectomy — the removal of plaque from an artery by means of a tiny rotating cutting blade inserted through a catheter.
- authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- baby-scales — scales used for weighing babies
- bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
- bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- ball hockey — a game similar to ice hockey, but played on foot on a hard surface without ice, using a hard plastic ball instead of a puck
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- barley coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/32 to 3/16 inch (2.4 to 4.8 mm).
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- beachy head — a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high
- belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
- binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
- bureaucracy — A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
- cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
- cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
- calefactory — giving warmth
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat