14-letter words containing r, a, y, c
- energy company — a company that produces energy, such as electricity
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- every man jack — everyone without exception
- exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- extractability — (uncountable) The condition of being extractable.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
- eyeball search — (jargon) (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
- farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
- financial year — law: annual accounting period
- foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
- french academy — an association of 40 scholars and men and women of letters, established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu and devoted chiefly to preserving the purity of the French language and establishing standards of proper usage.
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- garbologically — From the perspective of garbology.
- gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
- geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
- geographically — of or relating to geography.
- glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
- grammaticality — the state or quality of being grammatical.
- grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- gyroscopically — Using a gyroscope.
- haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
- hattie caraway — Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
- heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
- hierarchically — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
- hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
- highly charged — electrical
- histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.