14-letter words containing t, o, y, n
- intermediatory — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- intolerability — not tolerable; unendurable; insufferable: intolerable pain.
- intoxicatingly — causing or capable of causing intoxication: intoxicating beverages.
- intrapulmonary — (anatomy) Within the material of the lungs.
- introductorily — By way of introduction.
- introversively — In an introversive manner.
- inventory cost — Inventory costs are the costs to a business associated with holding stock, or money that is tied up in stock.
- invigoratingly — In an invigorating manner.
- isentropically — in an isentropic manner
- isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
- jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- jingoistically — (manner) In a jingoistic manner.
- junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- keynote speech — opening address at a conference
- keystone joist — a reinforced-concrete joist with sloping sides and the top wider than the bottom.
- keystone state — Pennsylvania (used as a nickname).
- kinetic theory — the theory that the minute particles of all matter are in constant motion and that the temperature of a substance is dependent on the velocity of this motion, increased motion being accompanied by increased temperature: according to the kinetic theory of gases, the elasticity, diffusion, pressure, and other physical properties of a gas are due to the rapid motion in straight lines of its molecules, to their impacts against each other and the walls of the container, to weak cohesive forces between molecules, etc.
- kitty-cornered — cater-cornered
- knotty rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- known quantity — Mathematics. a quantity whose value is given: in algebra, frequently represented by a letter from the first part of the alphabet, as a, b, or c.
- labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
- lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- leucocytopenia — leucopenia
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
- loan repayment — a repayment of part of a loan, usually monthly
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- low technology — any technology utilizing equipment and production techniques that are relatively unsophisticated (opposed to high technology).
- lyophilisation — Alternative spelling of lyophilization.
- lyophilization — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
- malcontentedly — in a discontented manner
- man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- manometrically — Using a manometer.
- market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
- masonry cement — a mix typically of Portland cement, hydrated lime, and other materials, used to improve the water retention and workability of the cement in masonry work.
- maternity home — a house in which a pregnant woman can live until her baby is born, esp one for women who became pregnant out of wedlock and whose baby is going to be put up for adoption
- matrimony vine — any plant belonging to the genus Lycium, of the nightshade family, species of which are cultivated for their foliage, flowers, and berries.
- mechanotherapy — curative treatment by mechanical means.