12-letter words containing a, n, c, y
- anticyclical — not conforming to or following a cycle: anticyclical sales that rise when the economy fades.
- anticyclones — Plural form of anticyclone.
- anticyclonic — Of, relating to, or consisting of an anticyclone.
- antigenicity — the quality or extent of being antigenic
- antihysteric — acting to counter hysteria
- antilynching — opposed to lynching, acting against lynching
- antimonarchy — Opposing a monarchy.
- antipyretics — Plural form of antipyretic.
- antisocially — In an antisocial manner.
- apocynaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Apocynaceae, a family of mostly tropical flowering plants with latex in their stems, including the dogbane, periwinkle, oleander, and some lianas
- appendectomy — the surgical removal of the vermiform appendix
- archdeaconry — the office, rank, or duties of an archdeacon
- astrodynamic — Pertaining to astrodynamics.
- asynchronies — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- asynchronism — a lack of synchronism; occurrence at different times
- asynchronous — An asynchronous electric machine is one in which the magnetic field and the rotation are not exactly the same.
- at any price — If you want something at any price, you are determined to get it, even if unpleasant things happen as a result.
- attractingly — in a manner that attracts
- authenticity — the quality or state of being authentic; reliability; genuineness
- autohypnotic — Of or pertaining to autohypnosis; self-hypnotizing.
- avuncularity — the condition of being an uncle
- azithromycin — A macrolide antibiotic derived from erythromycin.
- baby-bouncer — a seat on springs suspended from a door frame, etc, in which a baby may be placed for exercise
- back country — The back country is an area that is a long way from any city and has very few people living in it.
- backhandedly — In a backhanded manner.
- banbury cake — a cake consisting of a pastry base filled with currants, raisins, candied peel, and sugar, with a crisscross pattern on the top
- barodynamics — the branch of mechanics concerned with heavy structures
- belly dancer — A belly dancer is a woman who performs a Middle Eastern dance in which she moves her hips and abdomen about.
- belly-aching — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- beneficially — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
- beyond reach — inaccessible
- binary color — secondary color.
- binocularity — binocular characteristics
- biscay green — a yellowish green.
- biscayne bay — an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Florida, separating the cities of Miami and Miami Beach.
- black bryony — a climbing herbaceous Eurasian plant, Tamus communis, having small greenish flowers and poisonous red berries: family Dioscoreaceae
- black canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada: site of Boulder Dam.
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- brachycranic — having a cranial index of 81.0–85.4.
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
- calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
- caliginosity — darkness
- call-by-name — (reduction) (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
- call-by-need — (reduction) A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- calumniously — in a calumnious manner