17-letter words containing a, t, y, c
- to show your face — If you show your face somewhere, you go there and see people, although you are not welcome, are rather unwilling to go, or have not been there for some time.
- trackless trolley — trolley bus.
- transatlantically — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
- transitory action — an action that can be brought in any country regardless of where it originated
- trick photography — photography that creates an illusion
- tympanic membrane — eardrum.
- tyrant flycatcher — flycatcher (def 2).
- uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- unconformity trap — An unconformity trap is a hydrocarbon trap where the closure is made by an unconformity (= a formation of rock layers which represents a gap in the geological record).
- unconventionality — disregard for convention; the state or quality of being inconsistent with customs, rules, etc.; originality.
- unify corporation — (company) Developers of the Unify relational database. At one time, before Sybase, they were a competitor of Oracle, et al.
- unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
- varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
- vertical analysis — the conversion of an organization's profits and losses into overall percentages
- vertical mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
- village community — an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.
- willow flycatcher — a North American flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum, of alder thickets and other moist areas, that has greenish-brown upper parts and whitish underparts and is almost indistinguishable except by voice from E. traillii (willow flycatcher)
- x-ray diffraction — diffraction of x-rays by the regularly spaced atoms of a crystal, useful for determining the arrangement of the atoms.
- your day in court — Your day in court is your chance to give your side of an argument or other matter.
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.