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

  • 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
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
  • money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
  • moral philosophy — philosophy dealing with the principles of morality; ethics.
  • mulberry harbour — either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
  • multi-way branch — switch statement
  • multicellularity — The condition of being multicellular.
  • narcissistically — having an undue fascination with oneself; vain.
  • national gallery — a major art gallery in London, in Trafalgar Square. Founded in 1824, it contains the largest collection of paintings in Britain
  • national library — a library established and funded by a national government with the designation national, to serve the needs of this government, often to function as a library of record for the nation's publishing output, and in some cases to act as a central agency for library and bibliographic development in the nation.
  • national lottery — the largest UK lottery organization
  • natural immunity — immunity that is present without prior immunization.
  • natural monopoly — the situation when, due to the economies of scale of a particular industry, the maximum efficiency of production and distribution is realized through a single supplier
  • natural theology — theology based on knowledge of the natural world and on human reason, apart from revelation.
  • naturalistically — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
  • network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
  • neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
  • neurohypophyseal — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
  • neurohypophysial — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
  • non-conciliatory — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
  • non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
  • non-transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
  • nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
  • observationality — The property of being observational.
  • occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
  • ocellated turkey — a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.
  • orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
  • ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • organizationally — the act or process of organizing.
  • organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.
  • ornithologically — In terms of ornithology.
  • orthographically — In an orthographical manner; using proper spelling, capitalization and grammar.
  • osteoarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the study of bones found at archaeological sites
  • otolaryngologist — Otorhinolaryngologist.
  • over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
  • overall majority — If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents.
  • overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
  • overexcitability — to excite too much.
  • overhead railway — elevated railroad.
  • papillary muscle — one of the small bundles of muscles attached to the ventricle walls and to the chordae tendineae that tighten these tendons during ventricular contraction.
  • paradigmatically — of or relating to a paradigm.
  • paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • parallel sysplex — (operating system)   A Sysplex that uses one or more coupling facilities.
  • particle physics — the branch of physics that deals with the properties and behavior of elementary particles.
  • parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • pays de la loire — a region of W France, on the Bay of Biscay: generally low-lying, drained by the River Loire and its tributaries; agricultural
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