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16-letter words containing o, n, y

  • isopropylbenzene — cumene.
  • job entry system — (operating system)   (JES) An IBM mainframe term. There are really two JESs. JES2 is smaller and simpler, and can handle 99.99% of most jobs that run on IBM's MVS operating system. JES3 is much bigger and requires really big iron to run.
  • johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
  • journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
  • journeyman baker — a baker who is qualified to work in the employment of another
  • junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
  • jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
  • karyokinetically — In a karyokinetic manner; by means of karyokinesis.
  • keep an eye open — to watch with special attention (for)
  • key note speaker — a person who delivers a keynote address.
  • keynote software — A company which offers software-based business contact directories for people who develop, manufacture, market, or distribute software or multimedia products. E-mail: <[email protected]> (Subject: SEND INDEX).
  • keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • kolyma mountains — a mountain range in NE Siberia, Russia, near the Sea of Okhotsk, rising to over 6000 feet (1830 meters).
  • law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
  • lay down the law — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
  • lay oneself open — to make oneself vulnerable (to criticism, attack, etc)
  • lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
  • lily-of-the-nile — a plant, Agapanthus africanus, of the amaryllis family, native to Africa, having large umbels of blue flowers.
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
  • long-term memory — information stored in the brain and retrievable over a long period of time, often over the entire life span of the individual (contrasted with short-term memory).
  • luminosity class — a classification of stars of a given spectral type according to their luminosity, breaking them down into dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.
  • lymphangiography — x-ray visualization of lymph vessels and nodes following injection of a contrast medium.
  • lyndon b johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
  • magnetic anomaly — a departure from the normal magnetic field of the earth.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • majority opinion — an opinion in a case that is shared by more than half of the members of a court
  • many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • mauchly, john w. — John Mauchly
  • mechanochemistry — the field of chemistry that deals with the direct conversion of chemical into mechanical energy.
  • megalomaniacally — In a megalomaniacal manner.
  • megaphanerophyte — any tree with a height over 30 metres
  • meningomyelocele — (medicine) A congenital defect of the central nervous system of infants in which membranes and the spinal cord protrude through an opening or defect in the vertebral column.
  • methyl parathion — a synthetic pesticide, C 8 H 1 0 NO 5 PS, used in the control of mites and various insects, as aphids, boll weevils, and cutworms.
  • methylene iodide — a yellow liquid, CH 2 I 2 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used for the separation of mixtures of minerals and in organic synthesis.
  • methylthioninium — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The heterocyclic cation 3,7-bis(dimethylamino)-phenothiazin-5-ium, that is the basis of methylene blue.
  • microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
  • military honours — ceremonies performed by troops in honour of royalty, at the burial of an officer, etc
  • minority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the lesser part of the current in a semiconductor
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
  • missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
  • mnemotechnically — In a mnemotechnic manner; using mnemotechny.
  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • modern synthesis — a consolidation of the results of various lines of investigation from the 1920s through the 1950s that supported and reconciled the Darwinian theory of evolution and the Mendelian laws of inheritance in terms of natural selection acting on genetic variation.
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