12-letter words containing a, y, o, u
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- courtesy car — a car that is lent to c customer by a garage or insurance company
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- do your part — contribute
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- doodly-squat — a minimum amount or degree; the least bit (usually used in the negative): This coin collection isn't worth doodly-squat in today's market.
- drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- fluorography — photofluorography.
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- functionally — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- gamophyllous — having leaves united by their edges.
- gauge theory — a type of theory of elementary particles designed to explain the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions in terms of exchange of virtual particles
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.