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13-letter words containing t, o, y, e

  • treasury note — a note or bill issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, receivable as legal tender for all debts except as otherwise expressly provided.
  • trinity house — an association that provides lighthouses, buoys, etc, around the British coast
  • triquetrously — from a triquetrous point of view
  • trolley dolly — a female flight attendant
  • tropical year — year (def 4b).
  • tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
  • twenty-fourmo — a book size of about 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 inches (9 × 13 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 24 leaves or 48 pages.
  • twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
  • twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
  • tympanic bone — (in mammals) a bone of the skull, supporting the tympanic membrane and enclosing part of the tympanum or middle ear.
  • type ii error — the error made in the statistical testing of a hypothesis by accepting the null hypothesis when it is actually false.
  • type locality — Biology. the locality in which a type specimen was collected.
  • typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
  • ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
  • unemotionally — without the expression of strong feeling
  • unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
  • unforgettably — impossible to forget; indelibly impressed on the memory: scenes of unforgettable beauty.
  • unfortunately — suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
  • unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
  • unsupportedly — in an unsupported fashion, without support
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
  • velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
  • venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
  • victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
  • violet family — the plant family Violaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and some tropical shrubs and trees having alternate, usually simple leaves, solitary flowers with five usually irregular petals, the lower petal often spurred, and a berry or many-seeded capsule, and including the Johnny-jump-up, pansy, and numerous species of violet.
  • vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina
  • weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
  • web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
  • west by north — a point on the compass 11°15prime; north of west. Abbreviation: WbN.
  • west by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of west. Abbreviation: WbS.
  • west new york — a town in NE New Jersey, across the Hudson from New York City.
  • what have you — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
  • whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
  • winter savory — See under savory2 .
  • yekaterinodar — a former name of Krasnodar.
  • yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
  • yellow locust — black locust.
  • yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris
  • yellow streak — a trait of cowardice in a person's character.
  • yellowthroats — Plural form of yellowthroat.
  • yestermorning — yesterday morning.
  • yo-yo dieting — a repeated cycle of weight loss followed by weight gain.
  • yol computers — (company)   A company in London, UK that sells computer and network systems, established in 2001.
  • your nineties — the ages between 90–99
  • youth culture — the activities and behaviour associated with young people
  • youtube, inc. — (web, video)   An on-line video file sharing web site, founded on 2005-02-14 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Anyone can upload video clips to the site and these can then be viewed by others. In 2007, many such sites exist but YouTube is the best known. YouTube is funded by Sequoia Capital. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google Inc.. YouTube has partnership deals with content providers such as CBS, BBC, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, NBA, The Sundance Channel and many more.
  • yttrium oxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, Y 2 O 3 , used chiefly in incandescent gas and acetylene mantles.
  • yttrotitanite — (mineralogy) A brownish-black variety of titanite.
  • zymotechnical — relating to the technology of fermentation
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