14-letter words containing i, t, y
- body of christ — the Christian Church
- body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
- bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
- brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
- brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
- brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- british malaya — a comprehensive term for the former British possessions on the Malay Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago: now part of Malaysia.
- britney spears — beers
- broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broken society — a perceived or apparent general decline in moral values
- burying beetle — a beetle of the genus Necrophorous, which buries the dead bodies of small animals by excavating beneath them, using the corpses as food for themselves and their larvae: family Silphidae
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- buyers' strike — an attempt on the part of consumers to lower price levels by boycotting retailers or certain types of goods.
- by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
- by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
- by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
- byzantine rite — the rite of the Greek Orthodox Church and of certain Uniat churches, observed in the Greek language.
- cabalistically — In a cabalistic manner.
- call into play — to begin to operate
- caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
- capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
- capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
- capital outlay — a capital expenditure.
- cardboard city — an area of a city in which homeless people sleep rough, often in cardboard boxes
- cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
- cardiotoxicity — The state or condition of being cardiotoxic.
- carotid artery — A carotid artery is one of the two arteries in the neck that supply the head with blood.
- cataleptically — in a trancelike or cataleptic manner
- cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
- caustic baryta — baryta (def 2).
- caustic-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- celestial city — the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.
- chantilly lace — a delicate ornamental lace
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- charity school — an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.
- chemosynthesis — the formation of organic material by certain bacteria using energy derived from simple chemical reactions
- chemosynthetic — That utilizes chemosynthesis.
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- choral society — an organization of amateur singers
- christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about