12-letter words containing u, y
- endogenously — In an endogenous manner.
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
- equifinality — The property of being equifinal.
- equitability — The quality of being equitable; equitableness.
- equity issue — the sale of new stocks to an investor by a company
- equivalently — In an equivalent manner; equally.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- ethylmercury — (chemistry) The organometallic cation CH3CH2Hg+; it is a toxicant that does not seem to accumulate in the environment.
- etymologicum — an etymological dictionary
- eucalyptuses — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphoniously — In a euphonious manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eurocurrency — the currency of any country held on deposit in Europe outside its home market: used as a source of short- or medium-term finance, esp in international trade, because of easy convertibility
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
- exhaustively — In an exhaustive manner.
- extramurally — In an extramural manner.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- family album — photos of a family
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fatigue duty — any of the mainly domestic duties performed by military personnel, esp as a punishment
- fatty tissue — tissue with excessive accumulation of fat
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- fluorography — photofluorography.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
- formyl group — the univalent group HCO–, derived from formic acid.