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

  • antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
  • antitechnology — opposed to technology or the use of technological devices
  • any occupation — Any occupation insurance covers a person if they cannot work under any circumstances, in any occupation, following an accident, injury, or disability.
  • aphoristically — in an aphoristic manner
  • apocalypticism — the belief in apocalyptic prophecy
  • apologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • apoplectically — of or relating to apoplexy or stroke.
  • aposematically — in an aposematic manner
  • apothecary jar — a small, covered jar, formerly used by druggists to hold pharmaceuticals, now chiefly in household use to hold spices, candies, cosmetics, etc., and sometimes decorated, as a lamp base or flower vase.
  • apotropaically — in an apotropaic manner
  • appendicectomy — surgical removal of any appendage, esp the vermiform appendix
  • appleton layer — the F region of the ionosphere
  • arachnodactyly — A condition in which the fingers and hands are abnormally long and slender.
  • archaeocyathid — one of the marine invertebrates of the extinct phylum Archaeocyatha, widely distributed during the Cambrian Period, having a limy, typically conical or cylindrical skeleton composed of sievelike inner and outer walls.
  • arctic monkeys — British rock group (formed 2002): comprising Alex Turner (born 1986; vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (born 1985, guitar), Matt Helders (born 1986, drums, vocals) and Nick O'Malley (born 1985, bass guitar); their albums include Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), and AM (2013)
  • areal velocity — a measure of the velocity of one celestial body in orbit about another, equal to the area swept out per unit time by the vector joining the two bodies.
  • arthrogryposis — (countable, pathology) The permanent fixation of a joint in a contracted position.
  • as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • astigmatoscopy — examination by means of an astigmatoscope.
  • astrochemistry — the study of the chemistry of celestial bodies and space, esp by means of spectroscopy
  • astrolithology — The science of aerolites.
  • astrologically — In an astrological manner.
  • astronomically — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
  • astrophysicist — An astrophysicist is someone who studies astrophysics.
  • asymptotically — of or relating to an asymptote.
  • asynchronicity — (uncountable) The state of being asynchronous.
  • asynchronistic — Not synchronistic.
  • at one's mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
  • atomic physics — the branch of physics concerned with the structure and behaviour of atomic nuclei
  • auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • authority file — a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.
  • autocoprophagy — the consumption of one's own faeces
  • autocratically — In an autocratic manner.
  • autopolyploidy — having more than two haploid sets of chromosomes that are derived from the same ancestral species.
  • autoreactivity — (immunology) The condition of being autoreactive.
  • autotypography — a process in which drawings are executed on gelatin before being impressed on a soft metal plate to allow for printing
  • auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
  • auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
  • azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
  • bachelor party — A bachelor party is a party for a man who is getting married very soon, to which only men are invited.
  • barometrically — By means of a barometer.
  • base community — (especially in South America) a group of people taking part in religious devotions and Bible study, who seek to apply this in their socioeconomic and political situation.
  • basidiomycetes — Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs.
  • basque country — Theregion comprising three provinces in N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay, inhabited by Basques: 2,803 sq mi (7,260 sq km); pop. 2,104,000
  • bayes' theorem — the fundamental result which expresses the conditional probability P(E/A) of an event E given an event A as P(A/E).P(E)/P(A); more generally, where En is one of a set of values Ei which partition the sample space, P(En/A) = P(A/En)P(En)/Σ P(A/Ei)P(Ei). This enables prior estimates of probability to be continually revised in the light of observations
  • bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
  • bayonet socket — a socket for a bayonet fitting
  • beauty contest — A beauty contest is a competition in which young women are judged to decide which one is the most beautiful.
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