13-letter words containing l, a, r, y
- amplificatory — of the nature of enlargement or extension, as of a statement, narrative, etc.
- anachronously — in an anachronous manner
- anaerobically — (of an organism or tissue) living in the absence of air or free oxygen.
- anaphorically — referring back to or substituting for a preceding word or group of words: anaphoric reference.
- androgynously — In an androgynous manner.
- answerability — liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
- anthropolatry — the worship of a human as a god
- anthrozoology — The study of the interactions between humans and animals.
- anti-burglary — the felony of breaking into and entering the house of another at night with intent to steal, extended by statute to cover the breaking into and entering of any of various buildings, by night or day.
- anti-morality — conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
- antifertility — acting to suppress fertility or as a contraceptive
- antisterility — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- aperiodically — In an aperiodic way.
- apocryphalist — A member of the group who supported the inclusion of the Apocrypha in the Bible.
- apprehensibly — In an apprehensive manner; cautiously.
- appropriately — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
- approximately — close to; around; roughly or in the region of
- archaezoology — the analysis and interpretation of animal remains found at archaeological sites
- arshile gorky — Arshile [ahr-sheel] /ˈɑr ʃil/ (Show IPA), (Vosdanig Adoian) 1904–48, American painter, born in Armenia.
- arthritically — in an arthritic manner
- artificiality — artificial quality.
- aryepiglottic — pertaining to or connecting the arytenoid cartilage and the epiglottis.
- ascertainably — In a way that can be ascertained.
- assembly room — a room used as a public place of entertainment, usually dating from the eighteenth or nineteenth century
- assertability — The quality of being assertable.
- assortatively — In an assortative way.
- assyriologist — A person who studies ancient Assyria.
- aster yellows — a dwarfing and yellowing of asters and various other plants, caused by a mycoplasma transmitted by a leafhopper.
- astrophysical — Of or pertaining to astrophysics.
- asylum seeker — An asylum seeker is a person who is trying to get asylum in a foreign country.
- attributively — pertaining to or having the character of attribution or an attribute.
- australia day — a public holiday in Australia, commemorating the landing of the British in 1788: observed on January 26
- ayurvedically — As a practitioner of Ayurveda; in an Ayurvedic way.
- backdoor play — an offensive tactic whereby a player breaks away from a defender to receive a pass near the baseline in order to make a quick layup.
- bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
- bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
- bacteriolytic — disintegration or dissolution of bacteria.
- bailey bridge — a temporary bridge made of prefabricated steel panels that can be rapidly assembled
- balloon-berry — strawberry-raspberry.
- balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
- barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
- barley stripe — a disease of barley, characterized by blighted heads and chlorotic, brown, or frayed stripes on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Helminthosporium gramineum.
- barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
- baroclinicity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- barytocalcite — a mineral, double carbonate of calcium and barium, CaCO 3 ⋅BaCO 3 , usually found in veins of lead minerals.
- bay for blood — If you say that people are baying for blood, you mean that they are demanding that someone should be hurt or punished.
- beauty parlor — A beauty parlor is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example, to have their hair, nails, or makeup done.
- behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
- berkeley yacc — (tool) (byacc, previously Zeus, then Zoo) Probably the best variant of the Yacc parser generator. Written by Robert Corbett <[email protected]>.
- beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.