16-letter words containing a, y, r, s
- transcrystalline — situated within or passing through the crystals of a substance.
- transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
- transfer payment — any payment made by a government for a purpose other than that of purchasing goods or services, as for welfare benefits.
- transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
- transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
- two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
- undiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- urinary calculus — a calcareous concretion in the urinary tract.
- utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
- vegetable oyster — salsify.
- videodisc player — an electronic device for playing videodiscs through a television set.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- voluntary school — a school that promotes specific religious beliefs and which is funded by a local education authority but was not established by the authority
- voluntary sector — the part of the economy that consists of non-profit-making organizations, as opposed to the public and private sectors
- way of the cross — stations of the cross.
- weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
- welfare payments — government benefits
- whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
- yeoman's service — good, useful, or workmanlike service: His trusty sword did him yeoman's service.
- ziegler catalyst — any of a group of catalysts, such as titanium trichloride (TiCl3) and aluminium alkyl (Al(CH3)3), that produce stereospecific polymers
- zygosporangium's — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.