15-letter words containing u, y, s
- acanthus family — the plant family Acanthaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, clusters of tubular bracted flowers, and seeds sometimes dispersed by exploding fruit, including the acanthus, caricature, and shrimp plant.
- accessory fruit — a fruit having enlarged accessory structures in addition to those formed from the ovary, as the strawberry, in which the fleshy tissue is the enlarged receptacle and the true fruits are the small, dry achenes borne on its surface
- achlorophyllous — containing no chlorophyll.
- admiralty house — the official residence of the Governor General of Australia, in Sydney
- adventuresomely — In an adventuresome manner.
- aegyptopithecus — a genus of extinct anthropoid ape of the Oligocene Period known from remains found in Egypt.
- agranulocytosis — a serious and sometimes fatal illness characterized by a marked reduction of leucocytes, usually caused by hypersensitivity to certain drugs
- air-superiority — designating a fighter aircraft built for long patrol capability at high altitudes and supersonic speeds, with air-to-air combat as its principal mission.
- amaryllidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Amaryllidaceae, a family of widely cultivated flowering plants having bulbs and including the amaryllis, snowdrop, narcissus, and daffodil
- anthony burgess — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- anybody's guess — a person of some importance: If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
- as you go along — If you do something as you go along, you do it while you are doing another thing, without preparing it beforehand.
- assured tenancy — an agreement between a government-approved body such as a housing association and a tenant for occupation of a newly-built house or flat at an agreed market rent, under which the tenant has security of tenure
- astronautically — In an astronautic way.
- at your service — You can use 'at your service' after your name as a formal way of introducing yourself to someone and saying that you are willing to help them in any way you can.
- attitude survey — a survey of the opinions held by a particular group of people
- audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
- augusta gregory — Lady Augusta (Isabella Augusta Persse) 1852–1932, Irish dramatist.
- austria-hungary — the Dual Monarchy established in 1867, consisting of what are now Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and parts of Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and Italy. The empire was broken up after World War I
- autostereoscopy — The display of stereoscopic images without the use of special viewing equipment.
- barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
- basidiomycetous — belonging or pertaining to the basidiomycetes.
- bayeux tapestry — an 11th- or 12th-century embroidery in Bayeux, nearly 70.5 m (231 ft) long by 50 cm (20 inches) high, depicting the Norman conquest of England
- beyond question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
- blackberry bush — a bush on which blackberries grow
- bloody butchers — a hardy plant, Trillium sessile, common from New York to Georgia and westward, having stalkless, purple or green flowers.
- blue-eyed grass — any of various mainly North American iridaceous marsh plants of the genus Sisyrinchium that have grasslike leaves and small flat starlike blue flowers
- boom-bust cycle — A boom-bust cycle is a series of events in which a rapid increase in business activity in the economy is followed by a rapid decrease in business activity, and this process is repeated again and again.
- boys' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of men
- brachystomatous — having a short proboscis, as certain insects.
- bury st edmunds — a market town in E England, in Suffolk. Pop: 36 218 (2001)
- butler's pantry — a pantry in a large house where crockery, glassware, cutlery, etc is kept
- buys-ballot law — the law stating that if one stands with one's back to the wind, in the Northern Hemisphere the atmospheric pressure will be lower on one's left and in the Southern Hemisphere it will be lower on one's right: descriptive of the relationship of horizontal winds to atmospheric pressure.
- by all accounts — according to everyone
- calcareous clay — soil with high limestone content
- cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
- cassini-huygens — a NASA-ESA spacecraft launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons; Cassini entered orbit around the planet in 2004 and released the Huygens probe which landed on Titan in 2005
- cauchy sequence — fundamental sequence.
- chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
- character study — a work of fiction in which the delineation of the central character's personality is more important than the plot.
- charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
- chudskoye ozero — Russian name of Peipus.
- citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
- cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
- collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
- colouristically — in a colouristic manner
- communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
- communistically — In a communistic manner.
- community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
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