14-letter words containing a, n, y, u
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- caucasian lily — a tall lily plant, Lilium monadelphum, having large, fragrant, drooping golden-yellow flowers.
- chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
- circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
- circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
- ciudad guayana — an industrial conurbation in E Venezuela, on the River Orinoco: iron and steel processing, gold mining. Pop: 807 000 (2005 est)
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
- community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
- compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- conclusionally — the last main division of a discourse, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or decisions reached.
- congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contrapuntally — of or relating to counterpoint.
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- coronary sinus — a large venous channel in the heart wall that receives blood via the coronary veins and empties into the right atrium.
- countably many — countable
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
- curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- deoxyguanosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to guanosine.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
- don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
- edward yourdon — (person) A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
- enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
- equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- equity account — An equity account is an account recording ownership interests in a company.
- essay question — an examination question that requires an answer in the form of an essay
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.