12-letter words containing t, o, a, l, y
- auditorially — Anatomy, Physiology. pertaining to hearing, to the sense of hearing, or to the organs of hearing.
- autoallogamy — the ability of some plants of a species to cross-pollinate and others to self-pollinate
- autoanalysis — Psychoanalysis. self-analysis.
- autoanalyzer — any of various automatic devices that test and analyze chemicals, blood, etc.
- autocatalyse — to cause an internal, self-produced, chemical reaction
- autocatalyze — To cause, or to undergo autocatalysis.
- autoeciously — in an autoecious manner
- autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
- automobility — the use of motor cars
- autonomously — Government. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community.
- autoptically — in an autoptical manner
- avoidability — The possibility of avoiding; the state or condition of being avoidable.
- baby boomlet — a period of increase in the birthrate, smaller than a baby boom, as in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.
- bacteriology — Bacteriology is the science and the study of bacteria.
- balloon tyre — a pneumatic tyre containing air at a relatively low pressure and having a wide tread
- barratrously — In a barratrous manner.
- battle royal — a fight, esp with fists or cudgels, involving more than two combatants; melee
- battleworthy — capable of engaging in combat; ready for battle: a decline in the nation's battleworthy forces.
- bayonet bulb — an electric light bulb which is inserted into the socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
- beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
- binocularity — binocular characteristics
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
- bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
- caliginosity — darkness
- call of duty — responsibilities
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- cathodically — in a cathodic manner, by using a cathode
- cationically — in a cationic manner
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
- chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
- chartophylax — an official who serves chiefly as the chancellor and archivist of a diocese.
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chromatology — chromatics.
- clairvoyants — Plural form of clairvoyant.
- clayton fern — a tall fern, Osmunda claytoniana, of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having an interruption of growth in the center of some fronds.
- coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- cogitatively — In a cogitative manner.
- collaterally — In collateral relation; not lineally.
- collegiality — the sharing of authority among colleagues