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14-letter words containing t, a, r, y

  • beauty culture — the skill or occupation of a beautician
  • beauty parlour — A beauty parlour is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example to have their hair, nails or make-up done.
  • belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
  • bertrand meyer — The author of the Eiffel Language and many articles on object-oriented software techniques.
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • binary counter — (electronics, hardware)   A digital circuit which has a clock input and a number of count outputs which give the number of clock cycles. The output may change either on rising or falling clock edges. The circuit may also have a reset input which sets all outputs to zero when asserted. The counter may be either a synchronous counter or a ripple counter.
  • bird sanctuary — an area of land in which birds are protected and encouraged to breed
  • birthday party — a party to celebrate someone's birthday
  • blantyre-limbe — a city in S Malawi: largest city in the country; formed in 1956 from the adjoining towns of Blantyre and Limbe. Pop: 647 000 (2005 est)
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
  • boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
  • body corporate — a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise
  • bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
  • born yesterday — brought forth by birth.
  • bornyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 12 H 20 O 2 , having a piny, camphorlike odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of perfume, and as a plasticizer.
  • bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
  • boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
  • brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
  • brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
  • bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • brewer's yeast — a yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, used in brewing
  • british malaya — a comprehensive term for the former British possessions on the Malay Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago: now part of Malaysia.
  • britney spears — beers
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
  • buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
  • buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
  • byzantine rite — the rite of the Greek Orthodox Church and of certain Uniat churches, observed in the Greek language.
  • caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • cardboard city — an area of a city in which homeless people sleep rough, often in cardboard boxes
  • cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
  • cardiotoxicity — The state or condition of being cardiotoxic.
  • carotid artery — A carotid artery is one of the two arteries in the neck that supply the head with blood.
  • carry the ball — to assume responsibility; take command
  • cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
  • catty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • caustic baryta — baryta (def 2).
  • caustic-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • central valley — the chief wine-producing region of California, centered in San Joaquin County.
  • character type — a cluster of personality traits commonly occurring together in an individual
  • characterology — the academic study of character
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
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