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14-letter words containing u, y

  • daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
  • dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
  • delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • deoxyguanosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to guanosine.
  • deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
  • deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
  • disputatiously — In a disputatious manner.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • do you suppose — You can use 'do you suppose' to introduce a question when you want someone to give their opinion about something, although you know that they are unlikely to have any more knowledge or information about it than you.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • drag your feet — dawdle
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
  • earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • edward yourdon — (person)   A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
  • eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
  • electrocautery — Cautery using a needle or other instrument that is electrically heated.
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
  • enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
  • enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • equity account — An equity account is an account recording ownership interests in a company.
  • equity capital — Finance
  • essay question — an examination question that requires an answer in the form of an essay
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
  • eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
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