14-letter words containing a, t, y
- three-act play — a dramatic production such as play or film which is divided into three acts or sections
- three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
- throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
- thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
- thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
- tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
- to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
- to wax lyrical — If you say that someone, for example, waxes lyrical or waxes indignant about a subject, you mean that they talk about it in an enthusiastic or indignant way.
- to win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
- topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- traditionality — of or relating to tradition.
- trafficability — the condition of soil or terrain with regard to its being traveled over, as by people, vehicles, or machinery.
- trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- transit system — public transport service
- transmissivity — a measure of the ability of a material or medium to transmit electromagnetic energy, as light.
- transmittivity — the transmittance of unit thickness of a substance, neglecting any scattering effects
- transplanetary — farther from the sun than a given planet.
- transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- transsexuality — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
- transversality — the state of being transversal
- traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
- treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
- treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
- treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
- treinta y tres — a city in E Uruguay.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trial attorney — a lawyer who is involved in court cases
- tricyanic acid — cyanuric acid.
- trimethylamine — a colourless, flammable liquid with a strong, fishy odour
- trinity sunday — the Sunday after Pentecost, observed as a festival in honor of the Trinity.
- tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
- triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
- tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
- trumpet player — a person who plays the trumpet
- try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography) A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
- two-way mirror — a sheet of glass that can be seen through from one side and is a mirror on the other, used especially for observation of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officials or witnesses.
- two-way street — an arrangement or a situation involving reciprocal obligation or mutual action
- tymshare, inc. — (company) The US company that created the TYMNET network.
- tyndall effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- tyndall-effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- tyrrhenian sea — a part of the Mediterranean, bounded by W Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.
- ultra-royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
- ultramicrotomy — the practice of using an ultramicrotome