16-letter words containing y, e, a
- corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
- cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
- counter-strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
- covariant theory — the principle that physical laws have the same form and interrelations in any system of coordinates in which they are expressed.
- cracker capacity — The cracker capacity is the amount of a particular product which a refinery can produce.
- 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
- critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
- crossbow archery — the sport of shooting with a crossbow
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
- cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
- cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
- crystal detector — a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal
- crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
- 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
- cytoarchitecture — (biology) The arrangement of cells in an organism or organ.
- d-glyceraldehyde — an isomer of glyceraldehyde in which the OH group is on the right side of the asymmetric carbon atom.
- dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
- dakota territory — a territory in the N central U.S., from 1861 to 1868 comprising present-day North Dakota and South Dakota, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
- darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
- database analyst — (job) A person who uses data modeling to analyse and specify data use within an application area. A database analyst defines both logical views and physical data structures. In a client/server environment, he defines the database part of the back end system.
- day of atonement — Yom Kippur
- day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
- daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
- debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
- decimal currency — a system of currency in which the monetary units are parts or powers of ten
- deferred annuity — an annuity that commences not less than one year after the final purchase premium
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
- delayed reaction — response after an interval
- delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
- democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
- denominationally — In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
- dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
- deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
- depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
- depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
- deputy secretary — the Deputy Secretary of State or Defense etc
- derbyshire chair — a chair of the mid-17th century, made of oak, usually without arms, and having a back of two carved rails between square uprights.
- dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
- destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.