11-letter words containing a, c, y, l
- anticyclone — An anticyclone is an area of high atmospheric pressure which causes settled weather conditions and, in summer, clear skies and high temperatures.
- antitypical — something that is foreshadowed by a type or symbol, as a New Testament event prefigured in the Old Testament.
- anxiolytics — Plural form of anxiolytic.
- aphetically — (linguistics) In an aphetic way: through aphesis.
- apocalypses — Plural form of apocalypse.
- apocalyptic — Apocalyptic means relating to the total destruction of something, especially of the world.
- applicatory — suitable for application
- appreciably — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
- aquatically — in an aquatic manner
- arachnology — the study of arachnids
- archaeology — Archaeology is the study of the societies and peoples of the past by examining the remains of their buildings, tools, and other objects.
- archaically — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- arcticology — the scientific study of the Polar Regions.
- articularly — of or relating to the joints.
- artiodactyl — any placental mammal of the order Artiodactyla, having hooves with an even number of toes; an even-toed ungulate. The order includes pigs, hippopotamuses, camels, deer, cattle, and antelopes
- 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.
- aseptically — in a non-putrefying manner
- astatically — unstable; unsteady.
- asynclitism — The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
- atchafalaya — a river in S central Louisiana, flowing S to an inlet (Atchafalaya Bay) on the Gulf of Mexico; a heavily engineered distributary of the Mississippi. 225 miles (362 km).
- atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
- atypicality — the quality or condition of being atypical
- audaciously — extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
- auricularly — In an auricular manner.
- authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- avuncularly — in the manner of an uncle
- 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.
- baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
- 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
- bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
- binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
- black ivory — Black slaves collectively
- black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy