12-letter words containing y, i
- 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.
- agreeability — an agreeable disposition
- 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.
- alchemically — in an alchemical manner
- alcoholicity — the strength of an alcoholic liquor
- alienability — (uncountable) The quality of being alienable.
- alkyl halide — a compound with the type formula RX, where R is an alkyl group and X is a halogen.
- allergically — In an allergic manner; because of allergies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- ambulatorily — By or in terms of walking.
- amelioratory — tending to ameliorate
- american ivy — a vitaceous woody vine, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, of North America, having tendrils with adhesive tips, bluish-black berry-like fruits, and compound leaves that turn red in autumn: widely planted for ornament
- aminobutyric — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to any of several isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a butyric radical is replaced by an amino group.
- amissibility — the quality of being amissible
- amitotically — the direct method of cell division, characterized by simple cleavage of the nucleus without the formation of chromosomes.
- amphibiology — The branch of science that deals with amphibious animals.
- amphibiously — In the manner of an amphibian.
- amphictyonic — of or relating to an amphictyon or an amphictyony.
- amygdaliform — almond-shaped.
- amygdaloidal — (of a volcanic rock) containing amygdales
- amyl nitrite — a yellowish unstable volatile fragrant liquid used in medicine as a vasodilator and in perfumes. Formula: (CH3)2CHCH2CH2NO2
- amyl sulfide — a yellow liquid consisting of a mixture of isomers having the formula (C 5 H 11) 2 S, used chiefly in the preparation of organic sulfur compounds.
- anaglyphical — Alternative form of anaglyphic.
- analogically — In an analogical manner; in the manner of an analogy.
- analytically — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- analyzations — Plural form of analyzation.
- anaphylactic — exaggerated allergic reaction to a foreign protein resulting from previous exposure to it.
- anapophysial — of or relating to an anapophysis.
- anarchically — In an anarchic manner; in the manner of anarchy.
- anatomically — of or relating to anatomy.
- anelasticity — the property of a substance which has a disproportionate relationship between stress and strain
- aneurysmatic — (medicine) Describing a blood vessel that has an aneurysm; aneurysmal.
- angra mainyu — the evil spirit who contends against Spenta Mainyu.
- anisaldehyde — a colorless, oily, aromatic liquid, the para form of C 8 H 8 O 2 , having a vanillalike odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of cosmetics and perfume, and as an intermediate in organic synthesis.
- anisocytosis — (medicine) Significant size variation of blood cells.
- annie oakley — a free ticket; pass
- annihilatory — Causing annihilation.
- annoyingness — causing annoyance; irritatingly bothersome: annoying delays.