14-letter words containing a, t, y, c
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family compact — any influential clique
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
- fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
- foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
- friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
- gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
- genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
- geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
- geopolitically — According to geopolitics.
- grammaticality — the state or quality of being grammatical.
- grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
- guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
- haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
- halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
- hattie caraway — Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
- health physics — the branch of physics concerned with the health and safety of people in medical, scientific, and industrial work, esp with protection from the biological effects of ionizing radiation
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- hepatotoxicity — Toxicity that damages the liver.
- heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
- histologically — In an histological manner.
- histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
- hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
- hydroextractor — a device that dries things by means of the material to be dried being spun around the device's central axis
- hydrolytically — By means of hydrolysis.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydropathicity — (chemistry) The relative hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity of a compound, especially of an amino acid residue in a protein.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
- hyperaesthesic — relating to an extreme capacity for feeling
- hyperbatically — in a hyperbatic manner
- hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
- hyperchromatic — Hyperchromic.