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13-letter words containing o, u, t, l, y

  • owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
  • partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
  • pleurisy root — a North American milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, whose root was used as a remedy for pleurisy.
  • plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
  • pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • polychotomous — divided into multiple parts
  • polythalamous — having multiple chambers
  • precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
  • quality point — Education. grade point.
  • quasi-totally — constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
  • quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
  • revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
  • see you later — an expression of farewell
  • sententiously — abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
  • situationally — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
  • southeasterly — coming from the south east
  • southwesterly — coming from the south west
  • spontaneously — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
  • status symbol — an object, habit, etc., by which the social or economic status of the possessor may be judged.
  • statutory law — the written law established by enactments expressing the will of the legislature, as distinguished from the unwritten law or common law.
  • stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
  • stentoriously — stentorian.
  • subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
  • superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
  • superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
  • supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
  • tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
  • tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • tempestuously — characterized by or subject to tempests: the tempestuous ocean.
  • thaumatolatry — the worship of or excessive admiration for marvels and miracles
  • thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
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