10-letter words containing n, y
- aldermanry — the district, office, or rank of an alderman.
- alimentary — of or relating to nutrition
- alkalinity — the quality or state of being alkaline
- alkylating — Present participle of alkylate.
- alkylation — the attachment of an alkyl group to an organic compound, usually by the addition or substitution of a hydrogen atom or halide group
- alluringly — very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive.
- alvin york — a member of the royal house of England that ruled from 1461 to 1485.
- amarynceus — a king of Messene who ruled Elis with Augeas and who was slain by Nestor in a war against the Pylians.
- ambiophony — the reproduction of sound to create an illusion to a listener of being in a spacious room, such as a concert hall
- amendatory — serving to amend; corrective
- ammonolyze — to subject to ammonolysis.
- amnestying — Present participle of amnesty.
- amnioscopy — Examination of a foetus and the amniotic fluid in the lowest part of the amniotic sac using an amnioscope introduced through the cervical canal.
- amphictyon — a delegate to an amphictyonic council
- amphitryon — the grandson of Perseus and husband of Alcmene
- amplidynes — Plural form of amplidyne.
- amplifying — Present participle of amplify.
- amygdaline — of or relating to a tonsil
- anachronym — Synonym of backronym.
- anadyomene — (describing Venus or Aphrodite) rising from the sea
- anaglyphic — Relating to anaglyphs.
- anaglyptic — Of or pertaining to anaglyptics or to an anaglyph.
- analysable — Alternative spelling of analyzable.
- analysands — Plural form of analysand.
- analysis's — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- analysises — Misconstruction of analyses.
- analytical — An analytical way of doing something involves the use of logical reasoning.
- analytique — an elevation drawing of a façade, surrounded by a decorative arrangement composed of drawings of the important details and sometimes a plan or section of the façade.
- analyzable — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- anchylosis — (anatomy, medicine) alternative spelling of ankylosis.
- ancilliary — Misspelling of ancillary.
- androcracy — social and political rule by men.
- androgynal — Androgynous.
- androgynes — Plural form of androgyne.
- anemically — Pathology. suffering from anemia.
- anemochory — the dispersal of plant seeds or spores by the wind.
- anemometry — the technique of measuring wind speed and direction
- anemophily — fertilized by wind-borne pollen or spores.
- aneuploidy — (genetics) The condition of being aneuploid; the state of possessing chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number.
- aneurysmal — a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- angelology — a doctrine or theory treating of angels
- angiopathy — (pathology) Any disease of the blood vessels.
- angleberry — a wart-like growth on the skin of cattle and horses
- angularity — the condition of being angular
- anhydremia — an abnormal decrease in the volume of the blood, due to loss of water.
- anhydrides — Plural form of anhydride.
- anhydrosis — the deficiency or absence of perspiration; adiaphoresis.
- animatedly — full of life, action, or spirit; lively; vigorous: an animated debate on the death penalty.
- anisotropy — Physics. of unequal physical properties along different axes. Compare isotropic (def 1).
- ankylosaur — any of various quadrupedal herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs constituting the suborder Ankylosauria, which were most abundant in upper Cretaceous times and had a very heavily armoured tanklike body