10-letter words containing l, y, o
- uvulectomy — excision of the uvula.
- venerology — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- venomously — (of an animal) having a gland or glands for secreting venom; able to inflict a poisoned bite, sting, or wound: a venomous snake.
- vigorously — full of or characterized by vigor: a vigorous effort.
- vinylation — the process of introducing the vinyl group into a compound by reaction with acetylene.
- violet ray — the shortest ray of the visible spectrum
- virtuously — conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright: Lead a virtuous life.
- vocabulary — the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons: His French vocabulary is rather limited. The scientific vocabulary is constantly growing.
- volatility — evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent.
- volleyball — a game for two teams in which the object is to keep a large ball in motion, from side to side over a high net, by striking it with the hands before it touches the ground.
- volubility — characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative: a voluble spokesman for the cause.
- voluptuary — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.
- voyageable — able to be traversed
- welsh pony — one of a breed of small, sturdy ponies raised originally in Wales.
- willoughby — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- willow fly — a stonefly, Leuctra geniculata, of the English chalk streams, esteemed by trout and therefore by anglers
- wobblingly — With a wobbling motion.
- womanfully — in a manner full of womanly spirit: She struggled womanfully to complete the task.
- womanishly — In a womanish way.
- wondrously — wonderful; remarkable.
- woollyback — a person who lives in a region near, but not in, Liverpool
- woollybutt — any of several Australian trees of the genus Eucalyptus, especially E. longifolia, having rough, often fibrous bark.
- woollyfoot — a kind of fungus
- wordlessly — In a wordless manner.
- worry line — a line on someone's face, believed to be cause by worry
- worryingly — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- woundingly — In a way that wounds.
- wrongfully — unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
- wrongously — in an unjust or unfair manner
- xenoglossy — Knowledge of a language one has never learned.
- xylochrome — a colouring agent made from the chemical alteration of decomposed wood
- xylogenous — living in or on wood
- xylographs — Plural form of xylograph.
- xylography — The art of making woodcuts or wood engravings, especially by a relatively primitive technique.
- xylophagan — an insect in the Xylophaga or Xylophagi that eats wood
- xylophones — Plural form of xylophone.
- xylophonic — Of or pertaining to a xylophone.
- xylotomous — That bores or cuts into wood, as with certain insects.
- yellow box — (operating system) Apple Computer, Inc.'s new development platform for building desktop, server, and web applications. Yellow Box is a rich object-oriented environment that is tightly integrated with Java and allows you to deploy applications across five platforms: Rhapsody, Rhapsody for Intel, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Mac OS. All Yellow Box-based products are an evolution of OpenStep - an operating system-independent, object-oriented application platform from NeXT. Integrating the cross-platform robustness of OpenStep with Apple's market-leading digital media and graphics technologies will differentiate the Yellow Box from other development platforms. "Yellow Box for Windows" is the run-time software (implemented as dynamically linked libraries) that allows Yellow Box applications to run under Windows 95 and Windows NT. Applications that use it will feature a full native Windows user interface.
- yellow dog — a cowardly, despicable person; a craven.
- yellow gum — any of several Australian eucalyptuses, as Eucalyptus melliodora, having yellowish bark.
- yellow pad — a scratch pad of yellow, lined paper.
- yellow sea — an arm of the Pacific N of the East China Sea, between China and Korea.
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowbird — British Dialect. any of various yellow or golden birds, as the golden oriole of Europe.
- yellowcake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yellowfins — Plural form of yellowfin.
- yellowhead — Chaetodon xanthocephalus, the yellowhead butterflyfish.
- yellowlegs — either of two American shorebirds having yellow legs, Tringa melanoleuca (greater yellowlegs) or T. flavipes (lesser yellowlegs)
- yellowness — The state or quality of being yellow.