16-letter words containing r, a, y, c, s
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
- indiscriminantly — Misspelling of indiscriminately.
- indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- insurance policy — contract that insures sth
- intercrystalline — situated or passing between the crystals of a substance.
- intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
- intrinsic parity — parity1 (def 4b).
- jerusalem cherry — an Old World plant, Solanum pseudocapsicum, of the nightshade family, having white flowers and bearing cherrylike scarlet or yellow fruits, cultivated as an ornamental.
- journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
- keyman insurance — life insurance taken out by a business firm on an essential or very important employee, with the firm as beneficiary.
- krebs urea cycle — urea cycle.
- lachryma christi — a table wine produced from grapes grown near Vesuvius, in Italy.
- laparoscopically — By means of laparoscopy.
- laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
- least flycatcher — a small flycatcher, Empidonax minimus, of eastern North America.
- lexical analyser — (language) (Or "scanner") The initial input stage of a language processor (e.g. a compiler), the part that performs lexical analysis.
- library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
- lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
- literalistically — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
- magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
- magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
- malacostracology — (obsolete) carcinology, the study of crustaceans.
- malchus-porphyry — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- maximum-security — designed for or housing prisoners regarded as being very dangerous to society.
- mechanochemistry — the field of chemistry that deals with the direct conversion of chemical into mechanical energy.
- megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
- meristematically — In a meristematic way.
- microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
- migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
- militaristically — a person imbued with militarism.
- military science — the study of the causative factors and tactical principles of warfare.
- military service — compulsory period spent in the army
- minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
- misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
- narcissistically — having an undue fascination with oneself; vain.
- naturalistically — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
- neo-christianity — any interpretation of Christianity based on the prevalent philosophy of a given period.
- neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
- neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
- new smyrna beach — a town in NE Florida.
- nondiscretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
- osteoarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the study of bones found at archaeological sites
- overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- 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.
- particle physics — the branch of physics that deals with the properties and behavior of elementary particles.
- personality cult — deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader