16-letter words containing u, y

neurohypophysial — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
newry and mourne — a district of SE Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 89 644 (2003 est). Area: 909 sq km (351 sq miles)
nguyen van thieu — Nguyen Van [ngoo-yen vahn,, noo-] /ˈŋuˈyɛn vɑn,, ˈnu-/ (Show IPA), 1923–2001, South Vietnamese political leader: president 1967–75.
nicoya peninsula — a peninsula in NW Costa Rica, on the Pacific Ocean.
nitrosylsulfuric — of or derived from nitrosylsulfuric acid.
nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
not on your life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
nucleophilically — In a nucleophilic manner.
occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
ocellated turkey — a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.
on your doorstep — If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics) A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
opportunity cost — the money or other benefits lost when pursuing a particular course of action instead of a mutually-exclusive alternative: The company cannot afford the opportunity cost attached to policy decisions made by the current CEO.
opportunity shop — a shop selling second-hand goods for charitable funds
ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
orthodoxy sunday — a solemn festival held on the first Sunday of Lent (Orthodoxy Sunday) commemorating the restoration of the use of icons in the church (a.d. 842) and the triumph over all heresies.
out of the money — If an investment is out of the money, it would be a loss if it was sold.
out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
oxycalcium light — calcium light.
paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
papillary muscle — one of the small bundles of muscles attached to the ventricle walls and to the chordae tendineae that tighten these tendons during ventricular contraction.
part way through — mid-way; before the end
passive immunity — immunity resulting from the injection of antibodies or sensitized lymphocytes from another organism or, in infants, from the transfer of antibodies through the placenta or from colostrum.
patent ambiguity — uncertainty of meaning created by the obscure or ambiguous language appearing on the face of a written instrument.
pay-as-you-throw — denoting a system for waste collection in which households are charged according to the amount of refuse they leave
perpendicularity — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
personality cult — deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader
peruvian rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
peter stuyvesant — Peter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
phosphoryl group — the trivalent group ≡P≡O.
phytosuccivorous — feeding on sap, as certain sucking insects.
planetary nebula — an expanding shell of thin ionized gas that is ejected from and surrounds a hot, dying star of about the same mass as the sun; the gas absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the central star and reemits it as visible light by the process of fluorescence.
plymouth company — a company, formed in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America and that founded a colony in Maine in 1607.
political asylum — asylum provided by one nation to refugees, especially political refugees, from another nation.
powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
primary consumer — (in the food chain) an animal that feeds on plants; a herbivore.
primary industry — an industry, as agriculture, forestry, or fishing, that deals in obtaining natural materials.
primary producer — any green plant or any of various microorganisms that can convert light energy or chemical energy into organic matter.
process industry — business of treating raw materials
propylthiouracil — a white crystalline compound, C 7 H 1 0 N 2 OS, that interferes with the synthesis of thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland: used in the treatment of hyperthyroidism.
proteus syndrome — a condition caused by malfunction in cell growth, in which bone and flesh tissue overgrow in localized areas of the body
pseudo-dionysius — flourished c4th or 5th century a.d, author of a number of mystical works: identified, during the Middle Ages, with Dionysius the Areopagite.
pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
psychoimmunology — the branch of medicine studying the effects of psychological phenomena on the immune system; the intersection of psychology and immunology.
public schoolboy — a boy attending a public school, or a man who attended one
publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products

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