12-letter words containing a, s, y, u
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
- loquaciously — In a loquacious manner.
- lundy's lane — a road near Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada: battle between the British and Americans in 1814.
- mains supply — electricity, water, or gas supplied to a building through wires or pipes
- malodorously — With a bad smell.
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- maspar unity — A translator from UNITY to MPL by Martin Huber, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Version 1.0.
- masturbatory — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- mercury mass — blue mass (def 1).
- milquetoasty — Meek, timid.
- miraculously — In a miraculous manner.
- monogamously — In a monogamous manner.
- mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
- mossycup oak — bur oak
- murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
- mushy-headed — inadequately thought out: mushyheaded ideas.
- mycetomatous — relating to or affected by a mycetoma
- myxedematous — a condition characterized by thickening of the skin, blunting of the senses and intellect, and labored speech, associated with hypothyroidism.
- nature study — the study of plants and animals, especially by amateurs.
- naughty bits — genitals
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- nauseatingly — causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
- nonstatutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- not just any — If you say that someone or something is not just any person or thing, you mean that they are special in some way.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- oleaginously — In an oleaginous manner.
- oral surgery — the branch of dentistry or of surgery dealing with the surgical treatment or repair of various conditions of the mouth or jaws.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
- oyster sauce — thick oyster-flavoured Asian relish
- pachycarpous — having a thick pericarp
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- pastry brush — a small, flat brush for coating pastry with butter, egg, etc.
- paying guest — lodger
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- phytophagous — herbivorous.
- plausibility — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- polypetalous — having a corolla of separate petals.
- polysepalous — having a calyx of separate or unconnected sepals.
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.