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14-letter words containing y, i, n, a

  • blended family — a social unit consisting of two previously married parents and the children of their former marriages
  • boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
  • body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
  • boundary rider — an employee on a sheep or cattle station whose job is to maintain fences in good repair and to prevent stock from straying
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • brazilian ruby — a light-rose spinel used as a gem: not a true ruby.
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • britney spears — beers
  • buying manager — The buying manager of a store is a senior employee whose job is to manage the purchase and delivery of products and supplies, maintaining stock levels.
  • by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
  • by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
  • by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
  • byzantine rite — the rite of the Greek Orthodox Church and of certain Uniat churches, observed in the Greek language.
  • call into play — to begin to operate
  • caloric energy — energy measured in calories
  • canary islands — a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the NW coast of Africa, forming an Autonomous Community of Spain. Capital: Las Palmas. Pop: 1 944 700 (2003 est)
  • carrying place — portage (def 3).
  • caucasian lily — a tall lily plant, Lilium monadelphum, having large, fragrant, drooping golden-yellow flowers.
  • cayman islands — three coral islands in the Caribbean Sea northwest of Jamaica: a dependency of Jamaica until 1962, now a UK Overseas Territory. Capital: George Town. Pop: 53 737 (2013 est). Area: about 260 sq km (100 sq miles)
  • chantilly lace — a delicate ornamental lace
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
  • chromodynamics — a theory that describes how gluons and their forces bind quarks together to form protons, neutrons, etc.
  • chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
  • circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
  • cisnormativity — (LGBT, neologism) The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
  • ciudad guayana — an industrial conurbation in E Venezuela, on the River Orinoco: iron and steel processing, gold mining. Pop: 807 000 (2005 est)
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • climate canary — a human being or other living organism whose lack of health indicates environmental problems, reminiscent of the way in which live canaries were once used to detect the presence of poisonous gas in coal mines
  • clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
  • commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
  • community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
  • community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • concealability — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
  • conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
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