11-letter words containing a, y, c
- nonculinary — not culinary, not relating to cookery or the kitchen
- noncyclical — Not cyclical.
- nonmystical — not mystical
- nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- nonsyllabic — not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable.
- not exactly — not at all; by no means
- numerically — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- nuncupatory — Nuncupative; oral rather than written.
- nutty slack — coal
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- nyctanthous — (of plants) flowering at night
- nyctinastic — (of the periodic movement of flowers or leaves ) caused by nightly changes in light intensity or temperature.
- nyctophobia — an abnormal fear of night or darkness.
- obfuscatory — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- occipitally — from an occipital point of view
- octagonally — In an octagonal manner.
- octahydrate — (chemistry) A hydrate whose solid contains eight molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell.
- octal forty — (jargon) Jargon for "I'm drawing a blank.", I can't work it out.
- olfactology — the medical science which studies the sense of smell
- olfactorily — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- oneirically — In an oneiric fashion.
- oneiromancy — divination through dreams.
- onychomancy — a form of divination through use of the fingernails
- onychophagy — the habit of biting one's fingernails
- oologically — From the perspective of scientific study of eggs or of a collector of eggs.
- oracularity — Oracular speech or behaviour.
- oraculously — in an oraculous manner
- oral cavity — inside of the mouth
- orbicularly — In an orbicular fashion.
- organically — in an organic manner.
- oscillatory — characterized by or involving oscillation.
- osmotically — Physical Chemistry, Cell Biology. the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane. the diffusion of fluids through membranes or porous partitions. Compare endosmosis, exosmosis.
- ovariectomy — the operation of removing one or both ovaries; oophorectomy.
- oxygen acid — oxyacid.
- oyster crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres ostreum, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of oysters.
- pachydactyl — with thick digits
- pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
- pachydermia — an abnormal thickening of the skin
- pachydermic — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
- pacifically — peaceably, mildly, calmly, or quietly.
- packability — The quality or state of being packable.
- palaeotypic — characterized by palaeotype
- panama city — Panama (def 2).
- pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
- panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- panegyricon — a collection of sermons
- panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
- panpsychist — someone who believes that all matter has an element of consciousness
- papyraceous — papery.