12-letter words containing y, a
- adolescently — in an adolescent manner
- adoptability — the quality or extent of being adoptable
- adulterously — In a adulterous manner.
- advance copy — a copy of a book, speech etc released to the media, reviewers, etc before it is published, delivered, etc and before it is necessarily in its final state
- adversaryism — an attitude, as in labor-management negotiations, that any opposition to demands indicates an unwillingness of one side to cooperate and bargain in good faith.
- advisability — proper to be suggested or recommended; desirable or wise, as a course of action: Is it advisable for me to write to him?
- aerodynamics — Aerodynamics is the study of the way in which objects move through the air.
- afflictively — in a distressing, troublesome, or afflictive manner
- affrightedly — in a frightened or alarmed manner
- affrontingly — in an affronting manner
- african gray — an ashy-gray, African parrot, Psittacus erithacus, having a short, red tail, noted especially for its ability to mimic speech.
- african lily — an African plant (Agapanthus africanus) of the lily family with blue or white, funnel-shaped flowers
- agave family — the plant family Agavaceae, characterized by herbaceous or woody plants having rhizomes, a basal cluster of toothed, sword-shaped leaves, and a tall, dense spike of flowers, including the agave, century plant, dracaena, sansevieria, sisal, and yucca.
- agency nurse — a nurse employed by an agency, rather than by a hospital
- aggravatedly — In an aggravated manner.
- aggressively — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- aggressivity — the state or quality of being aggressive
- agnostically — a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. Synonyms: disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever; doubter, skeptic, secularist, empiricist; heathen, heretic, infidel, pagan.
- agony column — In a British newspaper or magazine, the agony column contains letters from readers about their personal problems, and advice on what to do about them.
- agranulocyte — a white blood cell without granules in its cytoplasm
- agreeability — an agreeable disposition
- agroforestry — a method of farming integrating herbaceous and tree crops
- agroindustry — an activity combining agriculture and industry
- air cylinder — a cylinder containing air, esp one fitted with a piston and used for damping purposes
- air layering — a method of propagating a plant by girdling or cutting part way into a stem or branch and packing the area with a moist medium, as sphagnum moss, stimulating root formation so that the stem or branch can be removed and grown as an independent plant.
- air ministry — (in England) the department of government administering all civil and military matters concerning aviation.
- airpocalypse — (informal) The presence of dense smog in many parts of China.
- alarm system — a set of electronic devices that trigger an alarm
- alchemically — in an alchemical manner
- alcoholicity — the strength of an alcoholic liquor
- alienability — (uncountable) The quality of being alienable.
- alkalescency — the tendency to develop alkaline qualities
- alkyl halide — a compound with the type formula RX, where R is an alkyl group and X is a halogen.
- alkylbenzene — (organic chemistry) Any hydrocarbon formally derived from benzene by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms with alkyl groups.
- allergically — In an allergic manner; because of allergies.
- allman style — indent style
- alloantibody — an antibody that reacts with an antigen from a genetically different individual of the same species.
- allowability — The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness.
- alloy wheels — wheels made from an steel alloy, usually of aluminium or magnesium, for improved properties such as reduced weight, better heat conductance and a shiny appearance
- alpha rhythm — the normal bursts of electrical activity from the cerebral cortex of a drowsy or inactive person, occurring at a frequency of 8 to 12 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- alphitomancy — the use of barley meal as a means of divination.
- alpine-style — of or in an ascent (esp in high mountains like the Himalayas) in which the climbers carry all their equipment with them in a single ascent from base to summit
- alterability — capable of being altered.
- alveolectomy — The surgical reshaping of the alveolar ridge to facilitate dental prosthesis.
- alyce clover — a tropical perennial clover (Alysicarpus vaginalis) sometimes used as a cover crop and for fodder
- amateurishly — In an amateurish or nonprofessional manner.
- ambisyllabic — (of a single speech sound or cluster) shared phonetically by two contiguous syllables, as the single n -sound of any or the pl -cluster of grappling.
- ambitendency — ambivalence, especially when acted out; a tendency to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses.
- ambivalently — in an ambivalent manner
- amboyna wood — the mottled, curled wood of an Asiatic, leguminous tree (Pterocarpus indicus), used in making furniture