13-letter words containing a, y, u
- fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- fantabulously — In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- fatiguability — Alternative form of fatigability.
- fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
- faunistically — in a faunistic manner
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- formulaically — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
- fort mcmurray — a town in NE Alberta, in W Canada, on the Athabasca River.
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
- genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- gnu c library — (library) (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- gray squirrel — a common, grayish squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, of eastern North America.
- groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
- group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
- group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
- guanabara bay — a deep bay in the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Brazil: site of Rio de Janeiro.
- guanylic acid — GMP.
- gunnery range — place used for rifle practice
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
- harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
- heart surgery — operation to treat cardiac problems
- heavily built — with a big heavy body
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- heusler alloy — any of various alloys of manganese and other nonferromagnetic metals that exhibit ferromagnetism.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
- holy saturday — the Saturday in Holy Week.
- holy thursday — Ascension Day.