11-letter words containing a, c, y
- aristocracy — The aristocracy is a class of people in some countries who have a high social rank and special titles.
- aromaticity — the property of certain planar cyclic conjugated molecules, esp benzene, of behaving like unsaturated molecules and undergoing substitution reactions rather than addition as a result of delocalization of electrons in the ring
- arthrectomy — surgical excision of a joint
- arthroscopy — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
- 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
- arty-crafty — affectedly artistic, esp in a homespun or rural style
- 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
- astatically — unstable; unsteady.
- astringency — An astringent taste.
- astrocytoma — a tumour of the nervous system which originates in and consists mainly of astrocytes
- asynartetic — having or containing two different types of metre
- 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.
- asyncronous — (spelling) It's spelled "asynchronous".
- at any cost — If you say that something must be done at any cost, you are emphasizing that it must be done, even if this requires a lot of effort or money.
- 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).
- atherectomy — the removal of plaque from an artery by means of a tiny rotating cutting blade inserted through a catheter.
- atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
- attophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the attometre range or of devices, such as lasers, capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- attractancy — the capacity of a pheromone to attract
- atypicality — the quality or condition of being atypical
- audaciously — extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
- auricularly — In an auricular manner.
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- autochthony — pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- avuncularly — in the manner of an uncle
- baby-scales — scales used for weighing babies
- bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- 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
- baranavichy — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
- beach party — a party held on a beach