11-letter words containing y, a
- aristocracy — The aristocracy is a class of people in some countries who have a high social rank and special titles.
- arkansawyer — an Arkansan.
- armory show — an international art show held in a New York City armory in 1913: considered a landmark in the public and critical acceptance of modern art.
- aromaticity — the property of certain planar cyclic conjugated molecules, esp benzene, of behaving like unsaturated molecules and undergoing substitution reactions rather than addition as a result of delocalization of electrons in the ring
- arrestingly — attracting or capable of attracting attention or interest; striking: an arresting smile.
- arrhenotoky — a form of parthenogenesis which produces only male offspring
- arrhythmias — Plural form of arrhythmia.
- art gallery — a place where works of art are displayed
- art history — study of art through the ages
- art therapy — a type of psychotherapy that encourages the expression of emotions through artistic activities such as painting, drawing, or sculpture; psychotherapy based on the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life-enhancing.
- arteriotomy — the surgical cutting of an artery or a cut made in an artery
- arthrectomy — surgical excision of a joint
- arthropathy — a disease of a joint
- arthroscopy — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
- articularly — of or relating to the joints.
- artiodactyl — any placental mammal of the order Artiodactyla, having hooves with an even number of toes; an even-toed ungulate. The order includes pigs, hippopotamuses, camels, deer, cattle, and antelopes
- artsybashev — Mikhail [Russian myi-khuh-yeel] /Russian myɪ xʌˈyil/ (Show IPA), Artzybashev, Mikhail.
- arty-crafty — affectedly artistic, esp in a homespun or rural style
- artzybashev — Mikhail [myi-khuh-yeel] /myɪ xʌˈyil/ (Show IPA), 1878–1927, Russian writer.
- arum family — the plant family Araceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having numerous tiny flowers on a fleshy spike above or sheathed by a large spathe, and including the anthurium, calla lily, jack-in-the-pulpit, and philodendron.
- arylamines' — any of a group of amines in which one or more of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia are replaced by aromatic groups.
- arytenoidal — relating to the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx and also to other parts relating to them
- as anything — You use as anything after an adjective to emphasize a quality that someone has.
- as early as — You can use as early as to emphasize that a particular time or period is surprisingly early.
- as you were — a military command to withdraw an order, return to the previous position, etc
- asbury park — city in EC N.J., on the Atlantic: an ocean resort: pop. 17,000
- ascendantly — in an ascendant manner
- ascendingly — moving upward; rising.
- ascetically — a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
- ascomycetes — any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota (or class Ascomycetes), including the molds and truffles, characterized by bearing the sexual spores in a sac (as distinguished from basidiomycete).
- aseptically — in a non-putrefying manner
- ash-shaytan — (in Muslim usage) Satan; the devil.
- asphyxiants — Plural form of asphyxiant.
- asphyxiated — Simple past tense and past participle of asphyxiate.
- asphyxiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of asphyxiate.
- asphyxiator — to produce asphyxia in.
- assemblyman — In the United States, an assemblyman is an elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
- assemblymen — Plural form of assemblyman.
- assentingly — in a concurring or complying manner
- assertively — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- assessingly — So as to assess.
- assiduously — constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
- assyriology — the study of the culture, history, and archaeological remains of ancient Assyria
- astatically — unstable; unsteady.
- astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
- astringency — An astringent taste.
- astrobotany — the branch of botany that investigates the possibility that plants grow on other planets
- astrocytoma — a tumour of the nervous system which originates in and consists mainly of astrocytes
- astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
- astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.