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17-letter words containing t, a, i, y

  • chincoteague pony — a wild pony found on certain islands off the Virginia coast, apparently descended from Moorish ponies shipwrecked in this vicinity in the 16th century.
  • chlortetracycline — an antibiotic used in treating many bacterial and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces aureofaciens. Formula: C22H23ClN2O8
  • chromolithography — the process of making coloured prints by lithography
  • circular velocity — the velocity at which a body must move in order to maintain an orbit at the outer edge of the earth's atmosphere.
  • circumlocutionary — a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
  • circumstantiality — the quality of being circumstantial
  • citric acid cycle — Krebs cycle.
  • city of gibraltar — a city on the Rock of Gibraltar, a limestone promontory at the tip of S Spain: settled by Moors in 711 and taken by Spain in 1462; ceded to Britain in 1713; a British crown colony (1830–1969), still politically associated with Britain; a naval and air base of strategic importance. Pop: 29 111 (2013 est). Area: 6.5 sq km (2.5 sq miles)
  • classical pathway — the activation of complement by an antigen-antibody reaction. Compare alternative pathway.
  • classless society — a society in which class distinctions are negligible or absent
  • cognitive therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to change the way he or sees the world and himself or herself: used particularly to treat depression
  • collection agency — A collection agency is an organization that obtains payments from people who owe money to others.
  • combinatory logic — (logic)   A system for reducing the operational notation of logic, mathematics or a functional language to a sequence of modifications to the input data structure. First introduced in the 1920's by Schoenfinkel. Re-introduced independently by Haskell Curry in the late 1920's (who quickly learned of Schoenfinkel's work after he had the idea). Curry is really responsible for most of the development, at least up until work with Feys in 1958. See combinator.
  • comity of nations — the friendly recognition accorded by one nation to the laws and usages of another
  • commodity markets — stock markets in which commodities are traded
  • computer literacy — basic, nontechnical knowledge about computers and how to use them; familiarity and experience with computers, software, and computer systems.
  • configurationally — With regard to a configuration.
  • confrontationally — In a confrontational way.
  • conspiracy theory — A conspiracy theory is a belief that a group of people are secretly trying to harm someone or achieve something. You usually use this term to suggest that you think this is unlikely.
  • constitutionality — In a particular political system, the constitutionality of a law or action is the fact that it is allowed by the constitution.
  • contingency table — an array having the frequency of occurrence of certain events in each of a number of samples
  • contracting party — a person, company, etc, entering into a legal contract
  • cooperative party — (in Great Britain) a political party supporting the cooperative movement and linked with the Labour Party: founded in 1917
  • coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
  • copernican system — the theory published in 1543 by Copernicus which stated that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun and which opposed the Ptolemaic system
  • coronary arteries — either of two arteries that originate in the aorta and supply the heart muscle with blood.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cryptoclimatology — See under microclimatology.
  • cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
  • cryptographically — In a cryptographic manner; using cryptography; for cryptographic purposes.
  • cylinder capacity — the cylinder volume that is swept by the pistons of an internal-combustion engine
  • cypriot syllabary — a syllabic script in use on Cyprus in the first millennium b.c., used for the writing of Greek and of an unknown language.
  • cyrillic alphabet — the alphabet derived from that of the Greeks, supposedly by Saint Cyril, for the writing of Slavonic languages: now used primarily for Russian, Bulgarian, and the Serbian dialect of Serbo-Croat
  • cytoarchitectonic — Of or pertaining to cytoarchitectonics (cytoarchitecture).
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • cytotrophoblastic — Relating to, or containing, cytotrophoblasts.
  • damon and pythias — two friends noted for their mutual loyalty. Damon offered himself as a hostage for Pythias, who was to be executed for treason by Dionysius of Syracuse. When Pythias returned to save his friend's life, he was pardoned
  • deadly nightshade — a poisonous Eurasian solanaceous plant, Atropa belladonna, having dull purple bell-shaped flowers and small very poisonous black berries
  • dehydrochlorinate — to remove hydrogen chloride or chlorine and hydrogen from (a substance).
  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
  • demythologization — The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized.
  • dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • desynchronisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of desynchronization.
  • desynchronization — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • deterministically — the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
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