16-letter words containing u, n, d, y
- gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- hundred-year-old — of one hundred years of age
- hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
- hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
- hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
- hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
- immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
- in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
- inauguration day — the day on which the president of the United States is inaugurated, being January 20 of every year following a year whose number is divisible by four. Prior to the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified February 6, 1933), it was March 4.
- indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
- induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
- judicial inquiry — a formal legal investigation conducted into a matter of public concern by a judge, appointed by the government
- 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.
- laurel and hardy — a team of US film comedians, Stan Laurel, 1890–1965, born in Britain, the thin one, and his partner, Oliver Hardy, 1892–1957, the fat one
- lucas van leyden — (Lucas Hugensz) 1494–1533, Dutch painter and engraver.
- managed currency — a currency whose value is established and maintained by deliberate governmental action working through national and international financial institutions, in contrast to the quasi-automatic gold standard.
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- 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.
- monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
- month of sundays — a long time
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- newry and mourne — a district of SE Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 89 644 (2003 est). Area: 909 sq km (351 sq miles)
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- on your doorstep — If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
- 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)
- orthodoxy sunday — a solemn festival held on the first Sunday of Lent (Orthodoxy Sunday) commemorating the restoration of the use of icons in the church (a.d. 842) and the triumph over all heresies.
- 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
- proteus syndrome — a condition caused by malfunction in cell growth, in which bone and flesh tissue overgrow in localized areas of the body
- 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.
- pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
- 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.
- redundancy money — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
- refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
- rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- sandstone quarry — a quarry from which sand is extracted
- secondary colour — a colour formed by mixing two primary colours