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13-letter words containing s, y, n, u

  • countryperson — Someone who is from a countryside background.
  • county prison — the prison of a particular county
  • cross-country — Cross-country is the sport of running, riding, or skiing across open countryside rather than along roads or around a running track.
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • discontiguity — the quality of being discontiguous
  • discontinuity — lack of continuity; irregularity: The plot of the book was marred by discontinuity.
  • disgruntledly — In a disgruntled manner.
  • dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
  • disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
  • disquietingly — causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing: disquieting news.
  • distrustingly — In a distrusting manner.
  • dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
  • eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
  • equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
  • eugeosyncline — a geosyncline characterized by lithology typical of deep ocean environments
  • fantabulously — In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.
  • faunistically — in a faunistic manner
  • film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • flying circus — a squadron of airplanes operating together, especially any of several squadrons of famous World War I aviators.
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
  • guernsey lily — a bulbous plant, Nerine sarniensis, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of crimson flowers.
  • gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
  • gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
  • hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
  • he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
  • highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
  • homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
  • ignominiously — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
  • immune system — a diffuse, complex network of interacting cells, cell products, and cell-forming tissues that protects the body from pathogens and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells, and removes cellular debris: the system includes the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes and lymph tissue, stem cells, white blood cells, antibodies, and lymphokines.
  • impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
  • impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
  • incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
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