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14-letter words containing e, u, o, n, y

  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • polygon pusher — (Or "rectangle slinger"). A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-coloured polygons).
  • polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
  • polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
  • polyunsaturate — a polyunsaturated fat or fatty acid.
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
  • pseudonymously — bearing a false or fictitious name.
  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • put money into — to invest money in
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
  • queen's bounty — king's bounty.
  • querimoniously — in a querimonious manner
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • read-only user — (jargon)   Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or electronic mail, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, terminal junkie, lurker.
  • return journey — the journey back from a destination
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
  • seniority rule — the custom in Congress providing for the assignment of a committee chairpersonship to that member of the majority party who has served on the committee the longest.
  • sensory neuron — a nerve cell that conducts impulses from a sense organ to the central nervous system.
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
  • south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • styling mousse — a light foamy substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • superseniority — seniority that is granted or held without regard to age or service.
  • the full monty — something in its entirety
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
  • try one's luck — to attempt something that is uncertain
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography)   A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
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