11-letter words containing n, y, o, r
- unfavorably — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
- unignorably — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unmandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- unmemorably — in a way that is not memorable
- unorthodoxy — orthodox belief or practice.
- unpurposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- unscholarly — not befitting a scholar or learned person
- unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- unsoldierly — not befitting a soldier
- uranography — the branch of astronomy concerned with the description and mapping of the heavens, and especially of the fixed stars.
- uranoplasty — a surgical operation to correct a defect of the palate or roof of the mouth
- urodynamics — the study and measurement of the flow of urine in the urinary tract
- vaccinatory — used for or relating to vaccination
- vapouringly — in a boastful manner
- venereology — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
- ventriloquy — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- vindicatory — tending or serving to vindicate.
- vinyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 3 , derived from ethylene.
- volitionary — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- voluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- whodunnitry — the style or genre of novels, plays, etc concerned with crime
- wonderberry — the black, edible fruit of an improved garden variety of the black nightshade.
- wonderfully — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wonderingly — In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
- working day — daytime hours occupied by work
- working-day — workaday; everyday.
- year-around — year-round.
- yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
- yersiniosis — an infectious disease marked by abdominal pain, diarrhoea, and fever
- yet another — (jargon) (YA-, after Unix's yacc - Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in "Yet Another AI Group" or "Yet Another Simulated Annealing Algorithm". If used of others' work, it describes something of which there are already far too many. In hackish acronyms the "YA" prefix almost invariably expands to Yet Another, e.g. YABA, YAUN.
- yorba linda — a city in SW California.
- yukon river — a river flowing NW and then SW from NW Canada through Alaska to the Bering Sea. About 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- zincography — the art or process of producing a printing surface on a zinc plate, especially of producing one in relief by etching away unprotected parts with acid.
- zoosanitary — Pertaining to the cleanliness of animals or animal products.