10-letter words containing y, a
- asynchrony — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- asyntactic — showing no syntactical rules or regularity
- asystolism — the indications or symptoms which are representative of asystole
- at liberty — free, unoccupied, or unrestricted
- athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atomically — of, pertaining to, resulting from, or using atoms, atomic energy, or atomic bombs: an atomic explosion.
- atrocity's — the quality or state of being atrocious.
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attainably — In a way that can be attained.
- attendancy — the condition or quality of accompanying or attending
- atypically — not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal: atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species.
- auctionary — of or relating to auctions or auctioneers
- audibility — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- audiometry — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auditorily — in an auditory manner, by hearing
- aunt sally — a figure of an old woman's head, typically with a clay pipe, used in fairgrounds and fêtes as a target for balls or other objects
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- autecology — the ecological study of an individual organism or species
- authourity — Obsolete form of authority.
- autography — the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten
- autolysate — the substances resulting as the end product of autolysis
- autolysins — Plural form of autolysin.
- autonymous — (of a word or words) appearing in its own form or directly quoted
- autoplasty — surgical repair of defects by grafting or transplanting tissue from the patient's own body
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autotrophy — (in certain plants and bacteria) the process of making food from inorganic substances, using photosynthesis
- autumnally — belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn: autumnal colors.
- auxotrophy — the inability to synthesize particular growth factors, due to mutational changes
- avoidantly — In an avoidant manner.
- axenically — in a manner not associated with any other living organism
- axinomancy — prediction of the future using the head of an axe or hatchet
- axonometry — the branch of crystallography concerned with measurement of the axes of crystals
- ayatollahs — Plural form of ayatollah.
- ayers rock — a conspicuous red monadnock in central Australia, in the SW Northern Territory: tourist attraction. 1143 feet (348 meters) high.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- aztec lily — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, of the amaryllis family, native to Mexico, bearing a large, bright-red flower.
- azygospore — a thick-walled spore produced by parthenogenesis in certain algae and fungi
- baby blues — depression suffered after childbirth
- baby bonus — family allowance
- baby buggy — A baby buggy is a small folding seat with wheels, which a young child can sit in and which can be pushed around.
- baby coach — a baby carriage.
- baby daddy — the biological father of a woman's child, not married to the child's mother and usually not in a relationship with her: Her baby daddy seldom comes to visit her and their child.
- baby grand — a small grand piano, approximately 5 feet long
- baby jesus — Jesus as a baby, esp in Nativity scenes
- baby linen — sheets, clothes, etc for babies
- baby sling — a pouch supported by straps at the shoulder or neck, used to carry small babies on one's chest
- baby split — a split in which the two and seven pins or the three and ten pins remain standing.
- baby tooth — Your baby teeth are the first teeth that grow in your mouth, which later fall out and are replaced by a second set.
- baby-daddy — the absent father of an illegitimate child
- baby-faced — having a smooth round face like a baby's