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16-letter words containing a, y, r, s

  • interest payment — a payment of interest on a loan or mortgage
  • interstratifying — Present participle of interstratify.
  • intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
  • intrinsic parity — parity1 (def 4b).
  • it is early days — Early means near the beginning of something such as a piece of work or a process.
  • it's fair to say — You use fair in expressions such as It would be fair to say in order to introduce a statement which you believe to be true and reasonable.
  • jailhouse lawyer — a prisoner who has taught himself or herself law while serving time, is knowledgeable about technical legal matters, and gives legal advice, especially to fellow prisoners.
  • jerusalem cherry — an Old World plant, Solanum pseudocapsicum, of the nightshade family, having white flowers and bearing cherrylike scarlet or yellow fruits, cultivated as an ornamental.
  • journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
  • jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
  • key note speaker — a person who delivers a keynote address.
  • keyman insurance — life insurance taken out by a business firm on an essential or very important employee, with the firm as beneficiary.
  • keynote software — A company which offers software-based business contact directories for people who develop, manufacture, market, or distribute software or multimedia products. E-mail: <[email protected]> (Subject: SEND INDEX).
  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • krebs urea cycle — urea cycle.
  • lachryma christi — a table wine produced from grapes grown near Vesuvius, in Italy.
  • ladies auxiliary — an association whose members are usually the wives of members of an association with which it is affiliated.
  • lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
  • laparoscopically — By means of laparoscopy.
  • laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
  • latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
  • lazy standard ml — (language)   (LSML) A lazy varient of SML, allowing cyclic val definitions, by Prateek Mishra <[email protected]>. Not to be confused with LML.
  • least flycatcher — a small flycatcher, Empidonax minimus, of eastern North America.
  • lexical analyser — (language)   (Or "scanner") The initial input stage of a language processor (e.g. a compiler), the part that performs lexical analysis.
  • library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • literalistically — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
  • lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
  • magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • malacostracology — (obsolete) carcinology, the study of crustaceans.
  • malchus-porphyry — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • marshalling yard — a place or depot where railway wagons are shunted and made up into trains and where engines, carriages, etc, are kept when not in use
  • maximum-security — designed for or housing prisoners regarded as being very dangerous to society.
  • measured daywork — a system of wage payment, usually determined by work-study techniques, whereby the wage of an employee is fixed on the understanding that a specific level of work performance will be maintained
  • mechanochemistry — the field of chemistry that deals with the direct conversion of chemical into mechanical energy.
  • medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
  • medullary sheath — Botany. a narrow zone made up of the innermost layer of woody tissue immediately surrounding the pith in plants.
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • meristematically — In a meristematic way.
  • mesembryanthemum — any of various chiefly Old World plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having thick, fleshy leaves and often showy flowers.
  • microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
  • migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
  • militaristically — a person imbued with militarism.
  • military honours — ceremonies performed by troops in honour of royalty, at the burial of an officer, etc
  • military science — the study of the causative factors and tactical principles of warfare.
  • military service — compulsory period spent in the army
  • minstrel gallery — a gallery in a building meant for use by musicians playing to provide background music or entertainment at a feast or other event
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