12-letter words containing u, c, a, y
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- courtesy car — a car that is lent to c customer by a garage or insurance company
- crumble away — disintegrate
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- currency bar — a long narrow iron bar, often sword-like or spear-like in shape, dating from the pre-Roman and Roman period in Britain; the purpose of currency bars is not certain, and while they may have been used in trade, they may have had a ritual significance
- curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- diuretically — In a diuretic way.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
- duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- ecumenically — general; universal.
- effectuality — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- eucalyptuses — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- functionally — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- happy couple — two people in a happy romantic relationship, especially two people who have just married
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- huayna capac — c1450–1527? Inca ruler of Peru 1493?–1527? (father of Atahualpa and Huascar).
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- ichthyofauna — the indigenous fish of a region.