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16-letter words containing y, n

  • hypoaeolian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E, with the final on A.
  • hypoalimentation — insufficient or inadequate nourishment.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • hypostatic union — (In Cristianity) Christ's condition of being, at the same time, both human and divine
  • hypsilophodontid — An informal grouping of small ornithopod dinosaurs, regarded as fast, herbivorous bipeds on the order of 1\u20132 meters long (3.3-6.6 feet).
  • iconoclastically — In an iconoclastic way.
  • identity element — the state or fact of remaining the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or conditions: The identity of the fingerprints on the gun with those on file provided evidence that he was the killer.
  • if you must know — You say 'if you must know' when you tell someone something that you did not want them to know and you want to suggest that you think they were wrong to ask you about it.
  • imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
  • immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
  • immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
  • immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
  • immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
  • immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
  • implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • in living memory — If you say that something is, for example, the best, worst, or first thing of its kind in living memory, you are emphasizing that it is the only thing of that kind that people can remember.
  • in so many words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • in someone's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • in the worst way — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
  • in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
  • in your own time — If you do something in your own time, you do it at the speed that you choose, rather than allowing anyone to hurry you.
  • inauguration day — the day on which the president of the United States is inaugurated, being January 20 of every year following a year whose number is divisible by four. Prior to the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified February 6, 1933), it was March 4.
  • inclined railway — a cable railway used on particularly steep inclines unsuitable for normal adhesion locomotives
  • incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
  • incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
  • incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
  • incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
  • inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
  • incorruptibility — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
  • indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
  • independence day — July 4, a U.S. holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • indian territory — a former territory of the U.S.: now in E Oklahoma. About 31,000 sq. mi. (80,000 sq. km).
  • indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
  • indiscernibility — The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
  • indiscriminantly — Misspelling of indiscriminately.
  • indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
  • inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • infant mortality — death during infancy
  • inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
  • instability line — a nonfrontal line of convective activity in the atmosphere, usually several hundred miles long but of relatively brief duration.
  • insubstantiality — not substantial or real; lacking substance: an insubstantial world of dreams.
  • insurance policy — contract that insures sth
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