13-letter words containing u, n, i, s, y
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- guernsey lily — a bulbous plant, Nerine sarniensis, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of crimson flowers.
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
- 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.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- ignominiously — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
- immune system — a diffuse, complex network of interacting cells, cell products, and cell-forming tissues that protects the body from pathogens and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells, and removes cellular debris: the system includes the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes and lymph tissue, stem cells, white blood cells, antibodies, and lymphokines.
- impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
- incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indissuadably — in an indissuadable way
- industriously — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- inexhaustibly — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- injudiciously — not judicious; showing lack of judgment; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet: an injudicious decision.
- inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
- inquisitively — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
- insinuatingly — tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive: an insinuating letter.
- instinctually — of, relating to, or of the nature of instinct.
- instructively — In an instructive manner.
- insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
- insupportably — In an insupportable manner.
- interindustry — occurring or existing between two or more industries
- intersexually — In an intersexual way.
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- isochronously — In an isochronous 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.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- justin martyr — Saint, a.d. c100–163? early church historian and philosopher.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
- kim young sam — born 1927, president of South Korea 1993–98.
- king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
- languishingly — In a languishing manner.
- magnanimously — In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.
- mistrustingly — In a mistrusting manner.
- mountainously — In a mountainous way.
- multi-sensory — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- multiindustry — Of or pertaining to more than one industry.
- necessitously — In a necessitous way.
- neuromyelitis — (pathology) inflammation of both the spinal cord and nerves.