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15-letter words containing u, y

  • lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • lazy evaluation — (reduction)   An evaluation strategy combining normal order evaluation with updating. Under normal order evaluation (outermost or call-by-name evaluation) an expression is evaluated only when its value is needed in order for the program to return (the next part of) its result. Updating means that if an expression's value is needed more than once (i.e. it is shared), the result of the first evaluation is remembered and subsequent requests for it will return the remembered value immediately without further evaluation. This is often implemented by graph reduction. An unevaluated expression is represented as a closure - a data structure containing all the information required to evaluate the expression. Lazy evaluation is one evaluation strategy used to implement non-strict functions. Function arguments may be infinite data structures (especially lists) of values, the components of which are evaluated as needed. According to Phil Wadler the term was invented by Jim Morris. Opposite: eager evaluation. A partial kind of lazy evaluation implements lazy data structures or especially lazy lists where function arguments are passed evaluated but the arguments of data constructors are not evaluated.
  • leathery turtle — a large turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, of warm and tropical seas, having a ridged leathery carapace: family Dermochelidae
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • liquidity event — the ending of an investor's involvement in a business venture with a view to realizing a gain or loss from the investment
  • liquidity ratio — the ratio of those assets that can easily be exchanged for money to the total assets of a bank or other financial institution
  • listed security — a security that is quoted on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and appears in its Official List of Securities
  • lithium battery — A lithium battery is a type of battery used for low-power, high-reliability, long-life applications, such as clocks, cameras and calculators.
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lleyn peninsula — a peninsula in NW Wales between Cardigan Bay and Caernarfon Bay
  • local authority — council, local government
  • locutionary act — the act of uttering a sentence considered only as such
  • lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
  • lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
  • lutzow-holm bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land.
  • lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
  • lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • malay peninsula — a peninsula in SE Asia, consisting of W (mainland) Malaysia and the S part of Thailand.
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • mare erythraeum — (Red Sea) an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
  • maundy thursday — the Thursday of Holy Week, commemorating Jesus' Last Supper and His washing of the disciples' feet upon that day.
  • medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
  • menstrual cycle — (in women of reproductive age) the cycle of physiological changes affecting the reproductive organs that takes place typically over a month and includes ovulation, thickening of the lining of the womb and menstruation if fertilization of the egg has not occurred
  • metallurgically — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
  • methylcellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • midsummer's day — Midsummer's Day or Midsummer Day is the 24th of June.
  • mind how you go — Some people say 'Mind how you go' when they are saying goodbye to someone who is leaving.
  • miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
  • miscue analysis — analysis of the errors a pupil makes while reading
  • mixture quality — Mixture quality is the degree to which a mixture is an ideal mixture.
  • modal auxiliary — Grammar. any of the group of English auxiliary verbs, including can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, and must, that are used with the base form of another verb to express distinctions of mood.
  • monkey business — frivolous or mischievous behavior.
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • monomolecularly — In monomolecular terms.
  • more fool (you) — If you say to someone 'More fool you' when they tell you what they have done or what they plan to do, you are indicating that you think that it is silly and shows a lack of judgment.
  • moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
  • motorcycle club — a club of motorcycle enthusiasts
  • mount cook lily — a large white buttercup, Ranunculus lyallii, of the South Island alpine country of New Zealand
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • mulberry family — the plant family Moraceae, characterized by deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having simple, alternate leaves, often milky sap, dense clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a fleshy berry, usually hollow in the center, and including the fig, mulberry, Osage orange, and rubber plant.
  • multical system — E-mail: Richard Snodgrass <[email protected]>.
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