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11-letter words containing c, l, a, y

  • anticyclone — An anticyclone is an area of high atmospheric pressure which causes settled weather conditions and, in summer, clear skies and high temperatures.
  • antitypical — something that is foreshadowed by a type or symbol, as a New Testament event prefigured in the Old Testament.
  • anxiolytics — Plural form of anxiolytic.
  • aphetically — (linguistics) In an aphetic way: through aphesis.
  • apocalypses — Plural form of apocalypse.
  • apocalyptic — Apocalyptic means relating to the total destruction of something, especially of the world.
  • applicatory — suitable for application
  • appreciably — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
  • aquatically — in an aquatic manner
  • arachnology — the study of arachnids
  • archaeology — Archaeology is the study of the societies and peoples of the past by examining the remains of their buildings, tools, and other objects.
  • archaically — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
  • arcticology — the scientific study of the Polar Regions.
  • articularly — of or relating to the joints.
  • artiodactyl — any placental mammal of the order Artiodactyla, having hooves with an even number of toes; an even-toed ungulate. The order includes pigs, hippopotamuses, camels, deer, cattle, and antelopes
  • ascendantly — in an ascendant manner
  • ascendingly — moving upward; rising.
  • ascetically — a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
  • aseptically — in a non-putrefying manner
  • astatically — unstable; unsteady.
  • asynclitism — The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
  • atchafalaya — a river in S central Louisiana, flowing S to an inlet (Atchafalaya Bay) on the Gulf of Mexico; a heavily engineered distributary of the Mississippi. 225 miles (362 km).
  • atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
  • atypicality — the quality or condition of being atypical
  • audaciously — extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
  • auricularly — In an auricular manner.
  • authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
  • autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
  • avuncularly — in the manner of an uncle
  • baby-scales — scales used for weighing babies
  • bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
  • bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
  • baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
  • ball hockey — a game similar to ice hockey, but played on foot on a hard surface without ice, using a hard plastic ball instead of a puck
  • barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
  • barley coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/32 to 3/16 inch (2.4 to 4.8 mm).
  • barley sack — a burlap bag.
  • baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
  • bellyaching — constant complaining
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
  • biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
  • black ivory — Black slaves collectively
  • black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
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