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16-letter words containing y

  • (as) easy as pie — extremely easy
  • (by) courtesy of — If something is provided courtesy of someone or by courtesy of someone, they provide it. You often use this expression in order to thank them.
  • a blaze of glory — If you go out in a blaze of glory, you do something very dramatic at the end of your career or your life which makes you famous.
  • ability grouping — a system whereby students are separated into different groups or classes according to test scores or relative scholastic ability, as to assure that gifted students are not inhibited by slower learners.
  • above and beyond — in addition to
  • abruptly pinnate — paripinnate.
  • abscission layer — a layer of parenchyma cells that is formed at the bases of fruits, flowers, and leaves before abscission. As the parenchyma disintegrates, the organ becomes separated from the plant
  • absobloodylutely — (British slang) absolutely.
  • acanthopterygian — of, relating to, or belonging to the Acanthopterygii, a large group of teleost fishes having spiny fin rays. The group includes most saltwater bony fishes
  • accounts payable — A company's accounts payable are all the money that it owes to other companies for goods or services that it has received, or a list of these companies and the amounts owed to them.
  • acetic anhydride — a colourless pungent liquid used in the manufacture of cellulose and vinyl acetates for synthetic fabrics. Formula: (CH3CO)2O
  • acetyl promazine — acepromazine
  • acetylandromedol — grayanotoxin.
  • acetylene series — a group of similar hydrocarbons
  • acetylsalicylate — a salt or ester of acetylsalicylic acid.
  • acid house party — a professionally organized party for young people, with Acid House music, sometimes held in a field or disused building
  • acrylic painting — a painting done with pigments in a solution of an acrylic resin: it dries quickly with a brilliance and depth comparable to those of both watercolor and oil paints
  • act of indemnity — an act of Parliament granting exemption to public officers from technical penalties that they may have been compelled to incur
  • actinopterygians — Plural form of actinopterygian.
  • active directory — (operating system)   A directory service from Microsoft Corporation, similar in concept to Novell Netware Directory Services, that also integrates with the user organisation's DNS structure and is interoperable with LDAP. Active Directory is included in Windows 2000.
  • activity holiday — a type of holiday in which holiday-makers can take part in many different organized activities, esp sports
  • addition polymer — a polymer formed by the direct reaction of two or more monomers, and with no resulting water or other by-product.
  • adenohypophyseal — Alternative form of adenohypophysial.
  • adenohypophysial — Relating to the adenohypophysis.
  • administratively — pertaining to administration; executive: administrative ability.
  • advisory opinion — an opinion given by a court on a case that does not settle the case but sets out the court's view of how the law or the constitution would apply to that case
  • advisory teacher — a teacher who visits schools to advise teachers on curriculum developments within a particular subject area
  • affluent society — a society in which the material benefits of prosperity are widely available
  • african honeybee — killer bee.
  • african mahogany — any of several African trees of the meliaceous genus Khaya, esp K. ivorensis, that have wood similar to that of true mahogany
  • agency agreement — an agreement between a business and an agent appointed to promote its interests
  • aggregate supply — the total supply of goods and services produced by a national economy in a specified time period, at a specified price level
  • alder flycatcher — a North American flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum, of alder thickets and other moist areas, that has greenish-brown upper parts and whitish underparts and is almost indistinguishable except by voice from E. traillii (willow flycatcher)
  • alexander nevsky — 1220?-63; Russ. military hero, statesman, & saint
  • alimentary canal — The alimentary canal in a person or animal is the passage in their body through which food passes from their mouth to their anus.
  • alkylating agent — any cytotoxic drug containing alkyl groups, such as chlorambucil, that acts by damaging DNA; widely used in chemotherapy
  • all too/only too — You use all too or only too to emphasize that something happens to a greater extent or degree than is pleasant or desirable.
  • allegheny spurge — a low, shrubby evergreen plant, Pachysandra procumbens, having spikes of white or purplish flowers, native to the southeastern U.S. and widely cultivated as a ground cover.
  • allele frequency — the frequency of occurrence or proportions of different alleles of a particular gene in a given population.
  • alloyed junction — a semiconductor junction used in some junction transistors and formed by alloying metal contacts, functioning as emitter and collector regions, to a wafer of semiconductor that acts as the base region
  • alphanumerically — In an alphanumeric manner; using alphanumeric characters.
  • alpine bearberry — a related species, A. alpina of European mountains, having black berries
  • amaryllis family — the plant family Amaryllidaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having alternate or basal lance-shaped leaves, bulbs or corms, and showy, lilylike flowers and including the amaryllis, daffodil, onion and its relatives, and snowdrop.
  • amebic dysentery — a form of dysentery caused by an amoeba (Entamoeba histolytica)
  • american tragedy — a novel (1925) by Theodore Dreiser.
  • amidinohydrazone — any of a group of pesticides, originally developed as antimalarial and antitubercular drugs, that impair cell respiration in cockroaches, red ants, and other insects.
  • aminocyclohexane — cyclohexylamine.
  • ammonium cyanate — a white, crystalline solid, CH 4 N 2 O, soluble in alcohol, that is converted into urea when heated.
  • anagrammatically — In an anagrammatic manner.
  • analytical entry — a bibliographic record of part of an item for which a comprehensive bibliographic record has been made, as a single play or essay in an anthology, a subject in a comprehensive work, or a part of a multivolume set of books.

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