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14-letter words containing t, r, y

  • antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
  • antiuniversity — a group or institution which disregards the established traditions or practices of university education
  • aphoristically — in an aphoristic 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
  • appleton layer — the F region of the ionosphere
  • appreciatively — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
  • aquaculturally — In an aquacultural manner; with regard to, or by means of, aquaculture.
  • 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.
  • archetypically — the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
  • archipterygium — (anatomy) A primitive fin, like that of Ceratodus.
  • 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.
  • arithmetically — the method or process of computation with figures: the most elementary branch of mathematics.
  • arthrogryposis — (countable, pathology) The permanent fixation of a joint in a contracted position.
  • artificial eye — a manufactured eye of glass, plastic, or other material, usually hemispherical or cup-shaped, worn cosmetically over a blind eye or in the socket of a lost eye and sometimes attached to muscles to provide movement.
  • asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
  • 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.
  • asymmetrically — not identical on both sides of a central line; unsymmetrical; lacking symmetry: Most faces are asymmetric.
  • 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.
  • attractability — The quality of being attractable.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • baby-battering — the physical abuse of a baby or young child
  • bachelor party — A bachelor party is a party for a man who is getting married very soon, to which only men are invited.
  • barbary states — semi-independent Turkish provinces along the coast of N Africa (16th-19th cent.); Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria, & Morocco
  • barium-hydrate — 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.
  • barometrically — By means of a barometer.
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • 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
  • bastard ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
  • battery backup — A battery backup is a system in some power supplies that switches between a main power source and a battery.
  • 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
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