15-letter words containing a, y, u
- hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- hydroxycoumarin — (organic compound) Any of several isomeric hydroxy derivatives of coumarin, some of which are the basis of pharmaceuticals.
- hypercalcinuria — Condition of high levels of calcium in the urine as caused by high levels of bone resorption seen in osteoporosis or hyperthyroidism.
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
- hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
- hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
- ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
- immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- inauthentically — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
- incalculability — The quality or state of being incalculable.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- incommutability — The quality or state of being incommutable.
- indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- innate immunity — natural bodily resistance to disease
- inquisitorially — In an inquisitorial manner.
- instantaneously — occurring, done, or completed in an instant: an instantaneous response.
- institutionally — of, relating to, or established by institution.
- instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insubstantially — In an insubstantial manner.
- insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
- intellectuality — the quality or state of being intellectual.
- interculturally — pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures: intercultural exchanges in music and art.
- interjaculatory — expressed by interjaculating
- intertextuality — the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting.
- intracellularly — within a cell or cells.
- intramuscularly — In an intramuscular manner; within a muscle.
- intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
- invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- janissary music — music characteristic of or imitative of that played by a Turkish military band, typically employing cymbals, triangles, bass drum, and Turkish crescents.
- jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
- kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
- keyboard plaque — (jargon) The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
- language lawyer — A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal, legalese.