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16-letter words containing y, a, m

  • bunker mentality — a defensive attitude in which others are seen as hostile or potentially hostile
  • buoyancy chamber — an enclosed section of a canoe, float, ship or other object that contains air, foam, or another buoyant substance in order to help maintain buoyancy
  • burkitt lymphoma — a rare type of tumour of the white blood cells, occurring mainly in Africa and associated with infection by Epstein-Barr virus
  • busman's holiday — If you have a holiday, but spend it doing something similar to your usual work, you can refer to it as a busman's holiday.
  • buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
  • butterfly damper — a damper, as in a flue, that rotates about a central axis across its face.
  • byzantine empire — the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, esp after the deposition of the last emperor in Rome (476 ad). It was finally extinguished by the fall of Constantinople, its capital, in 1453
  • calorimetrically — In a calorimetric manner.
  • canada mayflower — a small wildflower (Maianthemum canadense) of the lily family, with white flowers and red, beadlike berries, found in the N U.S. and in Canada; bead-ruby
  • cape may warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica tigrina, olive-green striped with black on the wings and back and yellow striped with black on the breast.
  • capital employed — the money used by a business for buying land, buildings, equipment etc
  • category mistake — a sentence that says of something in one category what can only intelligibly be said of something in another, as when speaking of the mind located in space
  • character comedy — comedy, or a comedy, in which the main source of humour is in the character of the people represented in it
  • chemoprophylaxis — the prevention of disease using chemical drugs
  • churidar pyjamas — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
  • cinnamyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 12 O 2 , having a piquant, flowerlike odor: used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
  • circumstantially — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
  • climatologically — In climatological terms.
  • colorimetrically — (analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commodity dollar — the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
  • commonsensically — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
  • communion sunday — any Sunday on which communion is administered.
  • community action — campaigns undertaken by the people living in a particular place
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
  • company of jesus — former name of the Society of Jesus.
  • complex analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with analytic functions of a complex variable.
  • complexity class — (algorithm)   A collection of algorithms or computable functions with the same complexity.
  • composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
  • compositionality — The property of being compositional.
  • consonant system — the consonant phonemes of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
  • continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
  • copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
  • couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
  • cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
  • crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
  • cuban royal palm — a feather palm, Roystonea regia, of tropical America, having a trunk that is swollen in the middle, drooping leaves from 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 meters) long, and small, round fruit.
  • customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
  • cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
  • cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
  • dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
  • day of atonement — Yom Kippur
  • decimal currency — a system of currency in which the monetary units are parts or powers of ten
  • democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
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