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15-letter words containing n, i, t, y

  • astronautically — In an astronautic way.
  • atlantic ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • atlantic-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • austria-hungary — the Dual Monarchy established in 1867, consisting of what are now Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and parts of Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and Italy. The empire was broken up after World War I
  • baconian theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
  • barycentrically — In a barycentric manner.
  • battery farming — the activity of using batteries for raising poultry
  • bayonet fitting — a type of fastening in which a cylindrical member is inserted into a socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
  • benefit payment — a payment of money by the government to people who are ill, unemployed, poor or who have children
  • benefit society — an organization which, by means of dues, secures for its members certain benefits, such as life insurance, hospitalization, etc.
  • benefits agency — an agency that handles the payment of benefits
  • beyond question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • big bang theory — In astronomy the big bang theory is a theory that suggests that the universe was created as a result of an extremely large explosion.
  • binary notation — a number system having a base of two, numbers being expressed by sequences of the digits 0 and 1: used in computing, as 0 and 1 can be represented electrically as off and on
  • biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
  • blessed trinity — Trinity (def 1).
  • boating holiday — a holiday spent sailing or travelling in a canal boat, cruiser, etc
  • bodily function — A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate.
  • body toning bar — a weighted exercise bar made of steel encased in a layer of foam, used for toning and strength training.
  • boys' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of men
  • britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
  • buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
  • byzantine chant — liturgical plainsong identified with the Eastern Orthodox Church and dating from the Byzantine Empire.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
  • calcined-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.
  • calydonian hunt — the pursuit by Meleager, Atalanta, and others of a savage boar (Calydonian boar) sent by Artemis to lay waste to Calydon.
  • canning factory — a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly where food is sealed in cans or tins to preserve it
  • carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
  • cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
  • centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
  • chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
  • charlatanically — In a charlatanic manner.
  • charles tiffany — Charles Lewis, 1812–1902, U.S. jeweler.
  • chimney-pot hat — a high silk hat; top hat.
  • cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
  • chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • city councilman — a member of a city council
  • coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
  • coinstantaneity — the act of taking place at exactly the same moment
  • combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
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