16-letter words containing y, a, m

swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
symbolical books — the books containing the creeds, beliefs, or doctrine of religious groups that have emerged since the Reformation
symmetric matrix — a matrix with the lower-left half equal to the mirror image of the upper-right half; a matrix that is its own transpose.
syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
synchronous dram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
sysdeco mimer ab — (company) Part of the international software group Sysdeco Group AS. They developed the MIMER RDBMS. Address: Uppsala, Sweden.
system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
systematic error — a persistent error that cannot be attributed to chance.
systemic grammar — a grammar in which description is founded on the relationships among the various units at different ranks of a language, and in which language is viewed as a system of meaning-creating choices
systems analysis — the evaluation of an activity to identify its desired objectives and determine procedures for efficiently attaining them.
systems software — Computers. a collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system.
t-carrier system — (communications) A series of wideband digital data transmission formats originally developed by the Bell System and used in North America and Japan. The basic unit of the T-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate of 64 Kbps, and is commonly used for one voice circuit. Originally the 1.544 megabit per second T1 format carried 24 pulse-code modulated, time-division multiplexed speech signals each encoded in 64 kilobit per second streams, leaving 8 kilobits per second of framing information which facilitates the synchronisation and demultiplexing at the receiver. T2 and T3 circuits channels carry multiple T1 channels multiplexed, resulting in transmission rates of up to 44.736 Mbps. The T-carrier system uses in-band signaling, resulting in lower transmission rates than the E-carrier system. It uses a restored polar signal with 303-type data stations. Asynchronous signals can be transmitted via a standard which encodes each change of level into three bits; two which indicate the time (within the current synchronous frame) at which the transition occurred, and the third which indicates the direction of the transition. Although wasteful of line bandwidth, such use is usually only over small distances. T1 lines are made free of direct current signal components by in effect capacitor coupling the signal at the transmitter and restoring that lost component with a "slicer" at the receiver, leading to the description "restored polar".
taimyr peninsula — a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.
tea and sympathy — a caring attitude, esp to someone in trouble
terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
territorial army — The Territorial Army is a British armed force whose members are not professional soldiers but train as soldiers in their spare time.
thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
that's as may be — even so
the caine mutiny — a novel by Herman Wouk, later made into a film
the first family — a President's family
the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
transfer payment — any payment made by a government for a purpose other than that of purchasing goods or services, as for welfare benefits.
transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
undiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
union-of-myanmar — Union of, official name of Burma.
unsystematically — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
waterleaf family — the plant family Hydrophyllaceae, characterized by usually hairy herbaceous plants having lobed, divided, or compound leaves, five-parted blue or white flowers, and capsular fruit, and including baby-blue-eyes, phacelia, and waterleaf.
welfare payments — government benefits
william mckinley — William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the U.S. 1897–1901.
woolly manzanita — a tree or shrub, Arctostaphylos tomentosa, of the heath family, common from British Columbia to California, having broad leaves, with the underside covered with white hairs, and white flowers.
yeoman's service — good, useful, or workmanlike service: His trusty sword did him yeoman's service.
yield management — the process of frequently adjusting the price of a product in response to various market factors, as demand or competition.
zorrilla y moral — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1817–93, Spanish poet and dramatist.
zygosporangium's — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.

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