10-letter words containing a, c, e, t, y
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- heterarchy — (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
- hycanthone — A particular schistosomicide, a metabolite of lucanthone.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- illiteracy — a lack of ability to read and write.
- inactively — In an inactive manner.
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- intendancy — the office or function of an intendant.
- inveracity — untruthfulness; mendacity.
- inveteracy — the quality or state of being inveterate or deeply ingrained: the inveteracy of people's prejudices.
- isocyanate — a salt or ester of isocyanic acid.
- itinerancy — the act of traveling from place to place.
- jelly coat — an ovum-produced glycoprotein that causes adhesion of sperm to the ovum; fertilizin.
- keltically — Celt.
- kerygmatic — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- lexicality — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- macrocytes — Plural form of macrocyte.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- mammectomy — mastectomy.
- mastectomy — the operation of removing all or part of the breast or mamma.
- megalocyte — (physiology) A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anemia.
- melanocyte — a cell producing and containing melanin.
- merchantry — (dated) The body of merchants taken collectively.
- mercy seat — Bible: Golden covering on the Arc of Covenant
- mercy-seat — Bible. the gold covering on the ark of the covenant, regarded as the resting place of God. Ex. 25:17–22. the throne of God.
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- metrically — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- myasthenic — Of, pertaining to, or suffering from myasthenia.
- mycetozoan — myxomycete
- myrtaceous — belonging to the Myrtaceae, the myrtle family of plants. Compare myrtle family.
- necrolatry — worship of the dead.
- nectocalyx — the swimming bell of a jellyfish
- nematocyst — an organ in coelenterates consisting of a minute capsule containing an ejectable thread that causes a sting.
- noticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- ocean city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- oceanicity — the degree to which the climate of a place is influenced by the sea.
- octogenary — (obsolete) Of eighty years of age.
- osteomancy — A kind of divination by means of bones.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.