14-letter words containing y, a, m, l, i
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- conformability — Conformableness.
- contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
- cosmologically — In a cosmological way.
- coxcombicality — the quality of being coxcombical
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- cyanocobalamin — a complex red crystalline compound, containing cyanide and cobalt and occurring in liver: lack of it in the tissues leads to pernicious anaemia. Formula: C63H88O14N14PCo
- decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
- democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- detrimentality — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
- dichotomically — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
- dimensionality — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- diplomatically — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- dogwood family — the plant family Cornaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, small flowers often surrounded by showy, petallike bracts, and berrylike fruit, including the bunchberry, cornelian cherry, and dogwood.
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- dyalog limited — (company) The company that distributes Dyalog APL. Previously known as Dyadic Systems Limited.
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- early american — (of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- emblematically — In an emblematic manner.
- empathetically — In an empathetic way.
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- etymologically — (domain) Based on or belonging to etymology.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
- extrapyramidal — Relating to or denoting nerves concerned with motor activity that descend from the cortex to the spine and are not part of the pyramidal system.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family compact — any influential clique
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
- figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.