15-letter words containing d, u, r, o, y
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- statutory order — a statute that applies further legislation to an existing act
- subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
- sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
- summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
- the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
- to do your best — If you do your best or try your best to do something, you try as hard as you can to do it, or do it as well as you can.
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- under your belt — If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
- under your feet — If you say that someone is under your feet, you are annoyed because they are with you or near you, and are bothering you.
- underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- unextraordinary — beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.
- untraditionally — in an untraditional fashion; not traditionally
- upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
- video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
- young pretender — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
- ytterbium oxide — a colorless compound, Yb 2 O 3 , used in certain alloys and ceramics.