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14-letter words containing t, o, y, n

  • the full monty — something in its entirety
  • the loony left — the extreme left
  • the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • the top twenty — the twenty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • theocentricity — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
  • there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
  • theriogenology — the branch of veterinary medicine encompassing all aspects of reproduction.
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
  • to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
  • to win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • torrens system — (in Australia, England, Canada, certain states of the U.S., etc.) a system of registration of land titles in which the titles are settled consequent to establishment and validation by a legal proceeding, designed chiefly to make title insurance unnecessary and to facilitate transfers.
  • traditionality — of or relating to tradition.
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • trial attorney — a lawyer who is involved in court cases
  • tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
  • try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • try one's luck — to attempt something that is uncertain
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography)   A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • twopenny piece — a two pence coin
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
  • unconciliatory — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
  • uncongeniality — the condition of being uncongenial
  • uncontemporary — outmoded
  • uncontrollably — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
  • uncontrolledly — in an uncontrolled manner
  • undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
  • unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
  • unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
  • unionist party — (formerly, in Northern Ireland) the major Protestant political party, closely identified with union with Britain. It formed the Northern Ireland Government from 1920 to 1972
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unproductivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • unpropitiously — in an unfavourable or inauspicious manner
  • unquestionably — not open to question; beyond doubt or dispute; indisputable; undeniable; certain: an unquestionable fact.
  • unromantically — in an unromantic manner
  • unsatisfactory — not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
  • unthoughtfully — not thoughtfully; in an unthoughtful manner; thoughtlessly
  • untouchability — the quality or condition of being an untouchable, ascribed in the Vedic tradition to persons of low caste or to persons excluded from the caste system.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
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