11-letter words containing a, n, c, y
- antipyrotic — relieving the pain and stimulating the healing of burns.
- antisecrecy — opposed to secrecy, particularly in government
- 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.
- apocynthion — the point at which a spacecraft in lunar orbit is farthest from the moon
- arachnology — the study of arachnids
- ascendantly — in an ascendant manner
- ascendingly — moving upward; rising.
- astringency — An astringent taste.
- 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.
- attractancy — the capacity of a pheromone to attract
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
- autochthony — pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- avuncularly — in the manner of an uncle
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- baranavichy — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
- 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.
- 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.
- bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- 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.
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
- botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
- bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
- caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
- calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
- call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
- callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically