16-letter words containing u, n, d, y, i
- jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
- medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
- money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
- ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
- perpendicularity — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- primary industry — an industry, as agriculture, forestry, or fishing, that deals in obtaining natural materials.
- process industry — business of treating raw materials
- pseudo-dionysius — flourished c4th or 5th century a.d, author of a number of mystical works: identified, during the Middle Ages, with Dionysius the Areopagite.
- pyroconductivity — conductivity brought about by the application of heat, especially in solids that are not conductors at normal temperatures.
- radioimmunoassay — a test procedure that integrates immunologic and radiolabeling techniques to measure minute quantities of a substance, as a protein, hormone, or drug, in a given sample of body fluid or tissue.
- refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
- secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
- service industry — business providing a service
- situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
- standard annuity — A standard annuity is a retirement investment insurance contract that pays a regular income in return for a lump sum payment.
- sunrise industry — any of the high-technology industries, such as electronics, that hold promise of future development
- synchronous idle — (character) (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
- the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
- the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
- tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
- tourist industry — the people, activities, and organizations involved in providing services for people on holiday, for example hotels, restaurants, and tour guides
- turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
- un-contradictory — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
- uncoincidentally — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
- undecylenic acid — a light-colored liquid with a fruity odor, C 11 H 21 O 2 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used in perfumes, flavors, plastics, and medicine.
- undiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- user-defined key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that can be used to carry out any of a limited number of predefined actions as selected by the user
- vinylidene group — the bivalent group C 2 H 2 , derived from ethylene.
- wild honeysuckle — pinxter flower.
- yellow underwing — any of several species of noctuid moths (Noctua and Anarta species), the hind wings of which are yellow with a black bar