10-letter words that end in y
- articulary — (anatomy) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
- arty-farty — If you describe someone as arty-farty, you are criticizing them for being interested in artistic ideas or activities that most people do not think are interesting or worthwhile.
- ascendancy — If one group has ascendancy over another group, it has more power or influence than the other group.
- ascendency — the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.
- asexuality — Biology. having no sex or sexual organs. independent of sexual processes, especially not involving the union of male and female germ cells.
- aspiratory — of or suited for breathing or suction
- aspiringly — in an aspiring manner
- assertedly — in a maintained but uncorroborated manner
- assumingly — in a presuming manner
- assuringly — In an assuring manner.
- astacology — the investigation and analysis of crayfish
- astrolatry — a reverence for, devotion to, or deification of celestial objects
- astromancy — divination by means of the stars.
- astrometry — the branch of astronomy concerned with the measurement of the position and motion of celestial bodies
- asynchrony — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- at liberty — free, unoccupied, or unrestricted
- athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atomically — of, pertaining to, resulting from, or using atoms, atomic energy, or atomic bombs: an atomic explosion.
- attainably — In a way that can be attained.
- attendancy — the condition or quality of accompanying or attending
- atypically — not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal: atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species.
- auctionary — of or relating to auctions or auctioneers
- audibility — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- audiometry — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auditorily — in an auditory manner, by hearing
- aunt sally — a figure of an old woman's head, typically with a clay pipe, used in fairgrounds and fêtes as a target for balls or other objects
- autecology — the ecological study of an individual organism or species
- authourity — Obsolete form of authority.
- autography — the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten
- autoplasty — surgical repair of defects by grafting or transplanting tissue from the patient's own body
- autotrophy — (in certain plants and bacteria) the process of making food from inorganic substances, using photosynthesis
- autumnally — belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn: autumnal colors.
- auxotrophy — the inability to synthesize particular growth factors, due to mutational changes
- avoidantly — In an avoidant manner.
- axenically — in a manner not associated with any other living organism
- axinomancy — prediction of the future using the head of an axe or hatchet
- axonometry — the branch of crystallography concerned with measurement of the axes of crystals
- aztec lily — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, of the amaryllis family, native to Mexico, bearing a large, bright-red flower.
- baby buggy — A baby buggy is a small folding seat with wheels, which a young child can sit in and which can be pushed around.
- baby daddy — the biological father of a woman's child, not married to the child's mother and usually not in a relationship with her: Her baby daddy seldom comes to visit her and their child.
- baby-daddy — the absent father of an illegitimate child
- back alley — dirty, unprepossessing, sordid, or clandestine: back-alley morals; back-alley political schemes.
- back forty — remote, usually uncultivated acreage on a large piece of land, as on a farm or ranch.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- back-alley — Back-alley activities are carried out unofficially, secretly, and often illegally.
- backwardly — In a backward direction.
- backwoodsy — like or of the nature of backwoods
- baffin bay — part of the Northwest Passage, situated between Baffin Island and Greenland
- bafflingly — to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
- baggataway — a form of lacrosse as played originally by the Ojibwa Indians.