14-letter words containing u, y, s
- inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- institutionary — of or relating to an institution or institutions; institutional.
- instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
- insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
- intersexuality — Having the physical features of both sexes.
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
- issue a policy — If an insurer issues a policy, they create an insurance policy and provide it to a customer.
- junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.
- juridical days — days on which the courts are in session
- just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
- justiciability — (legal): The ability of a subject matter to be evaluated and resolved by a court.
- justifiability — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
- leucocytolysis — the destruction of leucocytes
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
- liability suit — a claim for damages based on the plaintiff's claim of the defendant's liability
- lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
- light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
- linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- liquid crystal — a liquid having certain crystalline characteristics, especially different optical properties in different directions when exposed to an electric field.
- lunatic asylum — psychiatric hospital
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- macrodactylous — related to or having macrodactyly
- malacophyllous — (of plants living in dry regions) having fleshy leaves in which water is stored
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- meretriciously — In a meretricious manner.
- metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
- microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- minus infinity — The most negative value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity. In N bit twos-complement arithmetic, infinity is 2^(N-1) - 1 but minus infinity is -(2^(N-1)), not -(2^(N-1) - 1).
- minus quantity — a quantity less than zero
- molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- motor industry — the manufacturers of cars viewed as a sector
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- multispecialty — (US) Exhibiting or possessing multiple specialties (especially medical specialties).
- murder mystery — detective story, thriller
- museologically — In a museological manner.
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- mutual society — co-operative organization
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.