13-letter words containing u, n, d, y
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- 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.
- equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
- 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
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
- food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
- groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
- guanylic acid — GMP.
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
- honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- hydronium ion — the hydrogen ion bonded to a molecule of water, H 3 O + , the form in which hydrogen ions are found in aqueous solution.
- hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
- in difficulty — If you are in difficulty or in difficulties, you are having a lot of problems.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indian mutiny — a revolt of the sepoy troops in British India (1857–59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown.
- indissuadably — in an indissuadable way
- individuality — the particular character, or aggregate of qualities, that distinguishes one person or thing from others; sole and personal nature: a person of marked individuality.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- industriously — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- ineducability — Inability to be educated.
- injudiciously — not judicious; showing lack of judgment; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet: an injudicious decision.
- injured party — victim
- interindustry — occurring or existing between two or more industries
- interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
- isospondylous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes), an order of soft-finned teleost fishes that includes the herring, salmon, trout, and pike
- joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- latitudinally — of or relating to latitude.
- laundry-woman — laundress.
- liquid oxygen — a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
- many-coloured — having many colours