13-letter words containing u, e, y
- distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
- dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
- dummy element — an otherwise empty element that stands in for and holds the position of another element in a sentence
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
- 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.
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
- empty quarter — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
- empyreumatize — to infect or spoil with empyreuma
- encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
- equilibratory — Relating to the physical sense of balance, or equilibrium.
- equinoctially — In an equinoctial manner; relative to the equinox.
- equipollently — With equal power.
- erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
- estrous cycle — the regular female reproductive cycle of most placental mammals that is under hormonal control and includes a period of heat, followed by ovulation and complex changes of the uterine lining
- eudicotyledon — any plant belonging to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, comprising over 60 per cent of all plants, normally having net-veined leaves and two cotyledons in the seed
- eugeosyncline — a geosyncline characterized by lithology typical of deep ocean environments
- excess supply — a situation in which the market supply of a commodity is greater than the market demand for it, thus causing its market price to fall
- excludability — The ability to be excluded.
- executive pay — the money that an executive of an organization gets as wages or salary
- executive toy — a novelty item, such as a Newton's cradle, on the desk of a corporate executive
- exhaustlessly — in an exhaustless manner
- expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
- expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
- extenuatingly — in an extenuating manner
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- facultatively — In a facultative manner.
- fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
- 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 security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.