14-letter words containing u, y
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
- guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
- guided imagery — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
- gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
- gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
- guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
- harry s truman — Elizabeth Virginia Wallace ("Bess") 1885–1982, U.S. First Lady 1945–53 (wife of Harry S Truman).
- haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
- he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
- heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
- heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
- heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
- high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
- holy communion — communion (def 1).
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
- holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
- honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
- honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- house of study — Beth Midrash.
- how do you do? — a conventional formula when being introduced
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- hugger-muggery — hugger-mugger (defs 1, 2).
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- humphreys peak — the highest peak in Arizona, in the N, in the San Francisco Mountains: 12,633 feet (3851 meters).
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
- hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
- hydraulic ramp — a movable ramp operated by pressure transmitted through a pipe by a liquid
- hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
- hydrocellulose — a gelatinous substance obtained by the partial hydrolysis of cellulose, used chiefly in the manufacture of paper, mercerized cotton, and viscose rayon.
- hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hydrosulfurous — hyposulfurous.