13-letter words containing a, n, l, y
- anisophyllous — having leaves of different shapes or sizes.
- ankyloglossia — tongue-tie.
- annona family — the plant family Annonaceae, characterized by tropical trees and shrubs bearing simple alternate leaves, solitary or clustered dull-colored flowers, and edible fruit, and including the cherimoya, custard apple, and sweetsop.
- answerability — liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
- anthophyllite — a black or greenish-black mineral from the hornblende group, found in igneous and metamorphic rocks
- anthropolatry — the worship of a human as a god
- anthrozoology — The study of the interactions between humans and animals.
- anti-burglary — the felony of breaking into and entering the house of another at night with intent to steal, extended by statute to cover the breaking into and entering of any of various buildings, by night or day.
- anti-monopoly — exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare duopoly, oligopoly.
- anti-morality — conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
- anticatalysts — Plural form of anticatalyst.
- anticipatedly — In an anticipated manner; in advance.
- antifertility — acting to suppress fertility or as a contraceptive
- antigenically — Immunology. any substance that can stimulate the production of antibodies and combine specifically with them.
- antilipolytic — Countering lipolysis.
- antisexuality — the opposition to sexuality or sexual activity
- antisociality — the quality of being antisocial
- antisterility — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- apprehensibly — In an apprehensive manner; cautiously.
- aptitudinally — in a manner that indicates aptitude
- ascertainably — In a way that can be ascertained.
- assembly line — An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product. The product passes from one worker to another until it is finished.
- assemblywoman — In the United States, an assemblywoman is a female elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
- assemblywomen — Plural form of assemblywoman.
- assignability — The quality of being assignable.
- astonishingly — causing astonishment or surprise; amazing: an astonishing victory; an astonishing remark.
- atlantic city — a resort in SE New Jersey on Absecon Beach, an island on the Atlantic coast. Pop: 40 385 (2003 est)
- attainability — capable of being attained.
- attitudinally — in a manner expressive of personal attitudes or emotions
- authentically — not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
- autonomically — autonomous.
- avocationally — in one's leisure time
- baby elephant — a very young elephant
- bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
- balloon-berry — strawberry-raspberry.
- balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
- banana family — the plant family Musaceae, characterized by large treelike herbaceous plants of tropical regions, having a trunk formed by spiraling leaf sheaths, and bearing large leaves, flower clusters above leathery red-to-purple bracts, and fleshy fruit in clusters, including the banana and plantain.
- barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
- baroclinicity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- bathylimnetic — (of an organism) living in the depths of lakes and marshes
- bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
- bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
- bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
- belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
- beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
- bicycle chain — a chain that transmits power from the pedals to the driving wheel of a bicycle
- binary pulsar — a pulsar in a binary system.
- bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
- black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
- black economy — The black economy consists of the buying, selling, and producing of goods or services that goes on without the government being informed, so that people can avoid paying tax on them.