13-letter words containing c, u, l, y
- polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
- producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- public policy — the fundamental policy on which laws rest, especially policy not yet enunciated in specific rules.
- punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- pyrocellulose — cordite.
- quadratically — square.
- quadruplicity — the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- quasi-crystal — a group of atoms resembling a crystal but not having symmetrical plane faces
- quincuncially — In a quincuncial fashion.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- subculturally — in a subcultural manner or way
- subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- successlessly — without success, unsuccessfully
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
- sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
- synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
- to play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
- translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- traumatically — of, relating to, or produced by a trauma or wound.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- tummy muscles — the muscles of the stomach
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- ugly duckling — an unattractive or unpromising child who becomes a beautiful or much-admired adult.
- ultraphysical — extremely physical
- un-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).