13-letter words containing u, y
- journeyperson — A journeyman or journeywoman.
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- junction city — a city in NE Kansas.
- juniper berry — the berrylike cone of a juniper.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- justin martyr — Saint, a.d. c100–163? early church historian and philosopher.
- kentucky lake — reservoir in SW Ky. & W Tenn., on the Tennessee River: 247 sq mi (640 sq km); 184 mi (296 km) long
- 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.
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- labour supply — the total number of hours that workers are willing and able to be paid wages to work for
- lake-urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- languishingly — In a languishing manner.
- laser surgery — the surgical use of lasers.
- lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
- latitudinally — of or relating to latitude.
- laundry-woman — laundress.
- laurel cherry — a tree, Prunus caroliniana, of the rose family, of the southeastern U.S., having small, milky-white flowers and black, shiny fruit.
- laurel family — the plant family Lauraceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees having simple, leathery leaves, aromatic bark and foliage, clusters of small green or yellow flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or drupe, and including the avocado, bay, laurels of the genera Laurus and Umbellularia, sassafras, spicebush (Lindera benzoin), and the trees that yield camphor and cinnamon.
- lauroyl group — the monovalent organic group C 12 H 23 O–, derived from lauric acid.
- lay about one — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- legume family — the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.
- leiomyomatous — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
- leptophyllous — (of plants) having long slender leaves
- lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
- liquid oxygen — a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- magnanimously — In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.
- majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
- malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- many-coloured — having many colours
- marble quarry — a quarry where marble is extracted
- marcus garvey — Marcus (Moziah) [moh-zahy-uh] /moʊˈzaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1940, Jamaican black-rights activist in the U.S. (1916–27): advocated emigration of black Americans to Africa.
- matriculatory — relating to matriculation
- mayor's court — a city court presided over by a mayor.
- meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
- mealy-mouthed — avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- medullary ray — (in the stems of woody plants) one of the vertical bands or plates of unspecialized tissue that radiate between the pith and the bark.
- mellifluously — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- meritoriously — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
- merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.