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14-letter words containing i, n, y

  • urine analysis — urinalysis.
  • ursine dasyure — Tasmanian devil.
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • verbena family — the plant family Verbenaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having opposite or whorled leaves, clusters of irregular, sometimes fragrant flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the beautyberry, lantana, teak, verbena, and vervain.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
  • vinylacetylene — a colorless, volatile liquid, C 4 H 4 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of the synthetic rubber neoprene.
  • wang yang-ming — (Wang Shou-jen; Wang Shouren) 1472–1529, Chinese scholar and philosopher.
  • warrantability — The quality of being warrantable.
  • water hyacinth — a floating aquatic plant, Eichornia crassipes, of tropical lakes and rivers, that grows so prolifically it often hinders the passage of boats.
  • wayfaring tree — a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
  • weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
  • white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
  • wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
  • window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
  • with an eye to — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • with eyes open — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • working memory — temporary or short-term recall
  • worldly-minded — having or showing devotion to the affairs and interests of this world.
  • wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
  • xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
  • xinjiang uygur — an administrative division of NW China: established in 1955 for the Uygur ethnic minority, with autonomous subdivisions for other small minorities; produces over half China's wool and contains valuable mineral resources. Capital: Urumqi. Pop: 19 340 000 (2003 est). Area: 1 646 799 sq km (635 829 sq miles)
  • yagi (antenna) — a VHF or UHF directional antenna array in which a basic dipole antenna is supplemented by several parallel reflector and director elements: used when television reception is weak
  • yang chen ning — born 1922, Chinese physicist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1957.
  • yearly meeting — any of several associations of local Quaker congregations.
  • yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
  • yellow gentian — a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.
  • yellow jasmine — Carolina jessamine.
  • yellow yorling — a yellowhammer
  • yellowfin tuna — an important food fish, Thunnus albacares, inhabiting warm seas.
  • yenisei ostyak — Ket.
  • yeoman service — excellent service
  • yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.
  • yoda condition — (programming)   The programming practise of using if (constant == variable) e.g. if (4 == foo) instead of the more natural if (variable == constant) It is named after the Star Wars character Yoda who says things like "Strong is Vader". It may have been invented as a way to prevent coding errors like if (count = 5) (accidentally using a single "=" (assignment) instead of a double "==" (comparison)). The above is syntactically valid whereas the Yoda equivalent would give a compile-time error.
  • yorkshire bond — flying bond.
  • young marrieds — young married people
  • your seventies — the ages between 70–79
  • yttrotantalite — a mineral, tantalite and niobate of yttrium and various elements, as iron, and cerium, occurring in the form of brown-black crystals.
  • zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
  • zygomatic bone — a bone on each side of the face below the eye, forming the prominence of the cheek; cheekbone.
  • zygosporangium — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.
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