10-letter words containing r, a, y
- afterparty — An afterparty is a small party held after a larger event, to which only a small group of guests is invited.
- agreeingly — (obsolete) In a manner that agrees or corresponds.
- agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
- air piracy — the hijacking of an aircraft; skyjacking
- air system — a system of refrigeration utilizing air as a coolant.
- airwaybill — An airbill.
- airy-fairy — If you describe someone's ideas as airy-fairy, you are critical of them because you think the ideas are vague, impractical, and unrealistic.
- akaryocyte — A cell that has no nucleus.
- alarmingly — causing alarm or fear: an alarming case of pneumonia; an alarming lack of respect.
- aldermanly — pompous
- aldermanry — the district, office, or rank of an alderman.
- alimentary — of or relating to nutrition
- all righty — all right
- alluringly — very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive.
- alveolarly — in an alveolar manner
- 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.
- ambagitory — ambiguous
- ambulatory — of, relating to, or designed for walking
- amendatory — serving to amend; corrective
- amphithyra — Also, amphithyron, amphithura [am-fuh-thoo r-uh] /ˌæm fəˈθʊər ə/ (Show IPA), amphithuron. Greek Orthodox Church. a divided curtain in front of the door of the iconostasis.
- amphitryon — the grandson of Perseus and husband of Alcmene
- amyl group — any of several univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 5 H 11 –, whose derivatives are found in fusel oil, fruit extracts, etc.
- amyotrophy — wasting of muscles, caused by disease of the nerves supplying them
- amyxorrhea — the absence of the normal secretion of mucus.
- anachronym — Synonym of backronym.
- ancilliary — Misspelling of ancillary.
- androcracy — social and political rule by men.
- androgynal — Androgynous.
- androgynes — Plural form of androgyne.
- anemochory — the dispersal of plant seeds or spores by the wind.
- anemometry — the technique of measuring wind speed and direction
- aneurysmal — a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- 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.
- 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
- anonymizer — (Internet) A software tool that attempts to make a user's Internet activity untraceable by acting as a proxy.
- anteriorly — in an anterior position
- anti-story — a narrative of short-story length that makes no effort to follow a plot and ignores structural conventions, character motivations, and the like.
- antibaryon — the antiparticle of any of the baryons
- antipiracy — acting against the piracy of copyrighted material
- antipyrine — a drug formerly used to reduce pain and fever. Formula: C11H12N2O
- antrostomy — (surgery) Incision and drainage of the antrum.
- any longer — anymore
- anywhither — towards any place; in any direction
- aparavidya — intellectual knowledge.