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15-letter words containing u, y

  • ornithorhynchus — the platypus.
  • out on your ear — If someone says that you will be out on your ear, they mean that you will be forced to leave a job, an organization or a place suddenly.
  • outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
  • ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
  • oxyphenbutazone — an anti-inflammatory treatment for arthritis or bursitis
  • oyster mushroom — oyster cap.
  • pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
  • pattypan squash — a flat, whitish variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo melopepo, having a scalloped edge.
  • pay as you earn — a method of paying tax in which the tax is taken off your wages before they are paid to you
  • pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
  • peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
  • perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • personal injury — injury to an individual
  • petroleum jelly — sticky substance used as lubricant
  • petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
  • phenylene group — any of three bivalent, isomeric groups having the formula –C 6 H 4 –, derived from benzene by the removal of two hydrogen atoms.
  • phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • picture gallery — place where art is exhibited and sold
  • picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
  • pituitary gland — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
  • plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
  • pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
  • plymouth colony — the colony established in SE Massachusetts by the Pilgrims in 1620.
  • pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
  • polyphemus moth — a large, yellowish-brown American silkworm moth, Antheraea polyphemus, having a prominent eyespot on each hind wing and feeding on cherry, apple, and other trees.
  • polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
  • poststimulatory — following stimulation
  • postulationally — in a postulational manner
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • pre-delinquency — failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: delinquency in payment of dues.
  • preternaturally — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
  • pretty pictures — (scientific computation) The next step up from numbers. Interesting graphical output from a program that may not have any sensible relationship to the system the program is intended to model, but good for showing to management.
  • primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
  • primary product — a product consisting of a natural raw material; an unmanufactured product
  • primary quality — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • propylene group — the bivalent group −CH(CH 3)CH 2 −, derived from propylene or propane.
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
  • pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
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