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11-letter words containing a, y, c

  • sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
  • superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
  • switch yard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
  • sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • syllabicate — to syllabify.
  • syllabicity — the state of being syllabic; the ability to form a syllable.
  • sylvic acid — abietic acid.
  • symmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
  • symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
  • synanthetic — relating to synanthesis
  • syncopation — Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
  • syndicalism — a form or development of trade unionism, originating in France, that aims at the possession of the means of production and distribution, and ultimately at the control of society, by federated bodies of industrial workers, and that seeks to realize its purposes through general strikes, terrorism, sabotage, etc.
  • syndication — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
  • synodically — by the authority of a synod
  • synonymatic — relating to, or made up of, synonyms
  • synonymical — a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
  • syntactical — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
  • syntagmatic — pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that occur sequentially in the chain of speech or writing, as the relationship between the sun and is shining or the and sun in the sentence The sun is shining.
  • syntax-case — (language)   A macro system for Scheme by R. Kent Dybvig <[email protected]>. It is superior to the low-level system described in the Revised^4 Report (R4RS). Pattern variables are ordinary identifiers with essentially the same status as lexical variable names and macro keywords. The syntax is modified to recognise and handle references to pattern variables. Version 2.1 works with Chez Scheme and the Macintosh port runs under MacGambit 2.0
  • synthetical — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • syssarcosis — the joining or attachment of bones by means of muscle.
  • systematics — the study of systems or of classification.
  • tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
  • tachina fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Tachinidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars, beetles, and other insects.
  • tachycardia — excessively rapid heartbeat.
  • tachygraphy — shorthand, especially the ancient Greek and Roman handwriting used for rapid stenography and writing.
  • tachyphasia — a communication disorder characterized by excessively rapid or voluble speech
  • tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
  • taciturnity — Scots Law. the relinquishing of a legal right through an unduly long delay, as by the silence of the creditor.
  • tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
  • tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
  • technically — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
  • technocracy — a theory and movement, prominent about 1932, advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system, based on the findings of technologists and engineers.
  • telodynamic — pertaining to the transmission of mechanical power over considerable distances, as by means of endless cables on pulleys.
  • tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • tetracyclic — (of a compound) containing four rings in its molecular structure
  • tetradactyl — a four-toed animal
  • tetrahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) tetrahydroxy.
  • the academy — the public park near Athens where Plato taught and founded a school for the study of philosophy
  • thermically — in a thermic manner
  • thiocyanate — a salt or ester of thiocyanic acid, as sodium thiocyanate, NaSCN.
  • thoracotomy — incision into the chest cavity.
  • ticky-tacky — shoddy and unimaginatively designed; flimsy and dull: a row of new, ticky-tacky bungalows.
  • titanically — (initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Titans.
  • titanomachy — the unsuccessful revolt of the family of the Titan Iapetus against Zeus
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