12-letter words containing m, y, a, t
- astrocytomas — Plural form of astrocytoma.
- astrodynamic — Pertaining to astrodynamics.
- asymmetrical — Something that is asymmetrical has two sides or halves that are different in shape, size, or style.
- asymptomatic — If someone with a disease is asymptomatic, it means that they do not show any symptoms of the disease.
- asymptotical — of or relating to an asymptote.
- audio system — integrated equipment for producing amplified sound, as in a hi-fi or a mobile disco, or as a public-address system on stage
- autapomorphy — (cladistics) A derived trait that is unique to a particular taxon.
- autoallogamy — the ability of some plants of a species to cross-pollinate and others to self-pollinate
- autoimmunity — (pathology, immunology) The condition where one's immune system attacks one's own tissues, i.e., an autoimmune disorder.
- automaticity — the condition of being automatic, or the degree of this
- automobility — the use of motor cars
- autonomously — Government. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community.
- autorhythmic — That generates its own rhythm.
- axisymmetric — being symmetrical around an axis
- ayuntamiento — (in Spain) a municipal council
- azithromycin — A macrolide antibiotic derived from erythromycin.
- baby boomlet — a period of increase in the birthrate, smaller than a baby boom, as in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.
- baby monitor — a device that transmits sounds made by a baby to another room
- battery farm — a farm that uses batteries for raising poultry
- bay rum tree — a tropical American myrtaceous tree, Pimenta racemosa, that yields an oil used in making bay rum
- beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
- bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
- birth family — one's biological parents and siblings, as contrasted with one's adoptive family.
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
- bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
- calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- carry permit — a license to carry a handgun on one's person.
- cash payment — an immediate payment in cash
- caste system — the division of Hindu society into four major hereditary classes
- cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
- chamaephytes — Plural form of chamaephyte.
- chemotherapy — Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.
- chrestomathy — a collection of literary passages, used in the study of language
- chromaticity — the quality of a colour or light with reference to its purity and its dominant wavelength
- chromatology — chromatics.
- circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
- circumrotary — Alternative form of circumrotatory.
- city academy — (in England and Wales) a type of secondary school funded partly by the government and partly by private finance
- city company — (in Britain) a corporation that represents one of the historic trade guilds of London
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- class system — a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born
- climatically — of or relating to climate.
- clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War