9-letter words containing a, t, y, c
- faculty's — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- facundity — (archaic) eloquence; readiness of speech.
- fiscality — Fiscal policy or considerations.
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- fructuary — a person who enjoys the fruits or rewards (of something)
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- gaycation — a holiday specifically designed for the gay market
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- gracility — The state of being gracefully slender.
- gymnastic — of or relating to physical exercises that develop and demonstrate strength, balance, and agility, especially such exercises performed mostly on special equipment.
- habitancy — the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
- haecceity — That property or quality of a thing by virtue of which it is unique or describable as “ this (one). ”.
- haemocyte — Alternative spelling of hemocyte.
- hatchways — Plural form of hatchway.
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- haystacks — Plural form of haystack.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesychast — one of a sect of mystics that originated in the 14th century among the monks on Mt. Athos, Greece.
- hyacinths — Plural form of hyacinth.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- ice yacht — a sailing craft having a cross-shaped frame with a cockpit and runners for travelling over ice
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- intestacy — the state or fact of being intestate at death.
- intracity — Within a city.
- intricacy — intricate character or state.
- iowa city — a city in SE Iowa.
- irritancy — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
- jackstays — Plural form of jackstay.
- jacky tar — jackatar.
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- kritarchy — Rule by judges.
- lace stay — that part of an Oxford shoe into which eyelets and laces are inserted.
- lactylate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of a lactylic acid.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- latitancy — The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.
- latrociny — banditry
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lytically — in a lytic manner or involving a lytic phage
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- match day — the day on which a sports match, esp a football match, takes place