15-letter words containing l, y, o
- unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
- unceremoniously — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
- uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
- uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
- uncomplementary — forming a complement; completing.
- uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- unconditionally — not limited by conditions; absolute: an unconditional promise.
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- under your belt — If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
- underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- unidiomatically — in a way that is not idiomatic
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- unintentionally — not intentional or deliberate: an unintentional omission from the list.
- unobjectionably — without objection
- unpatriotically — in a manner that is not enthusiastically supporting one's country and its ways of life
- unpretentiously — without pretension
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- unquestioningly — in manner that accepts something without expressing doubt or uncertainty
- unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
- untraditionally — in an untraditional fashion; not traditionally
- untrustworthily — in an untrustworthy manner; not trustworthily
- 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).
- urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
- 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.
- utility company — a company which supplies utilities, such as gas, electricity, phones, etc
- utility program — system software used to perform standard operations, as sorting data or copying data from one file to another, for application programs or other system software.
- varicocelectomy — the surgical removal or ligation of varicose veins in the scrotal sac.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- vine phylloxera — a homopterous insect, Phylloxera vitifolia, typically feeding on vine juices
- vine technology — (company) A company which provides professional consulting services in the areas of networking, real-time systems, graphic arts, and web server advertisement space. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- violinistically — in a violinistic manner
- voltaic battery — battery (def 1a).
- volume velocity — the movement caused by a sound wave of a unit volume of a sound-transmitting medium through a unit area per unit of time.
- voronoi polygon — (mathematics, graphics) For a member s of a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the locus of points in the plane that are closer to s than to any other member of S.
- voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
- walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
- walleye pollock — a cod, Theragra chalcogramma, ranging the northern Pacific, that is related to and resembles the pollock.
- washington lily — a lily, Lilium washingtonianum, of the western coast of the U.S., having whorled leaves and fragrant, purple-spotted white flowers.
- well trajectory — The well trajectory is the direction in which the well is drilled.
- whitley council — any of a number of organizations made up of representatives of employees and employers for joint consultation on and settlement of industrial relations and conditions for a particular industry or service
- wild and woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
- wild-and-woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- wolf-rayet star — a very hot (35,000–100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum.
- wood woollyfoot — a common yellowish basidiomycetous fungus, Collybia peronata, of broad-leaved woodland, having a hairy tuft at the foot of the stem
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience