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16-letter words containing r, e, t, i, a, y

  • bright and early — very early in the morning
  • brittany spaniel — a short-tailed French bird dog that typically has a smooth orange- or liver-and-white coat
  • bunker mentality — a defensive attitude in which others are seen as hostile or potentially hostile
  • bureaucratically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
  • bypass operation — an operation involving redirection of blood flow, either to avoid a diseased blood vessel or in order to perform heart surgery
  • byzantine church — Orthodox Church (def 1).
  • byzantine empire — the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, esp after the deposition of the last emperor in Rome (476 ad). It was finally extinguished by the fall of Constantinople, its capital, in 1453
  • calorimetrically — In a calorimetric manner.
  • carboxypeptidase — any of several digestive enzymes that catalyze the removal of an amino acid from the end of a peptide chain having a free carbonyl group.
  • cartridge player — an audio or video system that reads cartridges of magnetic tape
  • catachrestically — In a catachrestic way.
  • category listing — A category listing is a list of different product categories such as menswear, womenswear, and childrenswear.
  • category mistake — a sentence that says of something in one category what can only intelligibly be said of something in another, as when speaking of the mind located in space
  • cavity resonator — a conducting surface enclosing a space in which an oscillating electromagnetic field can be maintained, the dimensions of the cavity determining the resonant frequency of the oscillations. It is used in microwave devices for frequencies exceeding 300 megahertz
  • celebrity status — the prominence of film star, footballer, musician etc who is constantly photographed and written about in tabloids and magazines
  • central cylinder — stele (def 4).
  • chiclet keyboard — (hardware, abuse)   A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of Chiclets chewing gum. Used especially to describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable and laptop computers were launched with them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not often seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more.
  • chryselephantine — (of ancient Greek statues) made of or overlaid with gold and ivory
  • circuit analyzer — multimeter.
  • city of aberdeen — a council area in NE Scotland, established in 1996. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 186 sq km (72 sq miles)
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • colorimetrically — (analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
  • controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • coreferentiality — (of two words or phrases) having reference to the same person or thing.
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • covariant theory — the principle that physical laws have the same form and interrelations in any system of coordinates in which they are expressed.
  • cracker capacity — The cracker capacity is the amount of a particular product which a refinery can produce.
  • critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
  • cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
  • currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
  • cytoarchitecture — (biology) The arrangement of cells in an organism or organ.
  • dakota territory — a territory in the N central U.S., from 1861 to 1868 comprising present-day North Dakota and South Dakota, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
  • darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • deferred annuity — an annuity that commences not less than one year after the final purchase premium
  • deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
  • delayed reaction — response after an interval
  • democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
  • depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
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