12-letter words containing y
- at the ready — If you have something at the ready, you have it in a position where it can be quickly and easily used.
- athletically — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- athrocytosis — the capability of a cell to receive and store matter
- attorneyship — The office or profession of an attorney.
- attractingly — in a manner that attracts
- attractively — In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
- attractivity — The quality or degree of attractive power or influence.
- atychiphobia — (rare) The fear of failure.
- audio system — integrated equipment for producing amplified sound, as in a hi-fi or a mobile disco, or as a public-address system on stage
- auditorially — Anatomy, Physiology. pertaining to hearing, to the sense of hearing, or to the organs of hearing.
- auspiciously — promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.
- autapomorphy — (cladistics) A derived trait that is unique to a particular taxon.
- autarkically — In an autarkic way.
- authenticity — the quality or state of being authentic; reliability; genuineness
- autistically — in an autistic manner or the manner of a person who has autism
- autoallogamy — the ability of some plants of a species to cross-pollinate and others to self-pollinate
- autoanalysis — Psychoanalysis. self-analysis.
- autoanalyzer — any of various automatic devices that test and analyze chemicals, blood, etc.
- autoantibody — an antibody reacting with an antigen that is a part of the organism in which the antibody is formed
- autocatalyse — to cause an internal, self-produced, chemical reaction
- autocatalyze — To cause, or to undergo autocatalysis.
- autoeciously — in an autoecious manner
- autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
- autohypnosis — the process or result of self-induced hypnosis
- autohypnotic — Of or pertaining to autohypnosis; self-hypnotizing.
- autoimmunity — (pathology, immunology) The condition where one's immune system attacks one's own tissues, i.e., an autoimmune disorder.
- automaticity — the condition of being automatic, or the degree of this
- automobility — the use of motor cars
- autonomously — Government. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community.
- autoptically — in an autoptical manner
- autorhythmic — That generates its own rhythm.
- availability — the quality or condition of being available
- avariciously — characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.
- avascularity — the condition of having few blood vessels or of being without blood vessels
- avoidability — The possibility of avoiding; the state or condition of being avoidable.
- avuncularity — the condition of being an uncle
- axillary bud — a bud that is borne at the axil of a leaf and is capable of developing into a branch shoot or flower cluster.
- axisymmetric — being symmetrical around an axis
- aykhona wena — an exclamation expressive of surprise, pain, pleasure, etc
- ayuntamiento — (in Spain) a municipal council
- azithromycin — A macrolide antibiotic derived from erythromycin.
- azophenylene — phenazine.
- b lymphocyte — B cell.
- b-lymphocyte — a type of lymphocyte, originating in bone marrow, that produces antibodies
- baby boomlet — a period of increase in the birthrate, smaller than a baby boom, as in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.
- baby brother — a younger brother
- baby carrier — a kind of sling or rucksack used to carry small babies either on one's chest or one's back
- baby monitor — a device that transmits sounds made by a baby to another room
- baby's-tears — a mosslike plant, Soleirolia (or Helxine) soleirolii, of the nettle family, native to Corsica and Sardinia, having small, roundish leaves and minute flowers.
- baby-bouncer — a seat on springs suspended from a door frame, etc, in which a baby may be placed for exercise