10-letter words containing a, t, o, r, y
- autography — the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten
- autotrophy — (in certain plants and bacteria) the process of making food from inorganic substances, using photosynthesis
- auxotrophy — the inability to synthesize particular growth factors, due to mutational changes
- axonometry — the branch of crystallography concerned with measurement of the axes of crystals
- back forty — remote, usually uncultivated acreage on a large piece of land, as on a farm or ranch.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- bardolatry — idolatry or excessive admiration of William Shakespeare
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- booby-trap — A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- caloricity — Ectothermy.
- cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
- carol city — a town in SE Florida, near Miami.
- carrot fly — a dipterous insect, Psila rosae, that is a serious pest of carrots. The larvae tunnel into the root to feed
- cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- castratory — of or relating to castration
- category 3 — (hardware) (Cat 3, or "voice grade") An American Standards Institute standard for UTP cables. Used, e.g., for 100BaseVG network cabling.
- category 5 — The term Category 5 refers to Ethernet cabling that allows data transfers up to 100 Megabits per second.
- category a — (of a prisoner) regarded as highly dangerous and therefore requiring constant observation and maximum security
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- clay court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
- clearstory — clerestory
- cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- consectary — a consequence or conclusion
- contrarily — in a perverse or obstinate manner
- copartnery — copartnership
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- cordiality — warmth of feeling
- cortically — Anatomy. of, pertaining to, resembling, or consisting of cortex.
- corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- cosmolatry — the worship of the cosmos
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- cryostasis — the deep-freezing of human bodies or other organisms at death; cryonics.
- cryostatic — of or relating to a cryostat
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol