14-letter words containing y, a, m, o, u
- mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
- mountain nyala — a similar and related Ethiopian animal, T. buxtoni, lacking the white crest
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- museologically — In a museological manner.
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- mutual society — co-operative organization
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- non-ambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
- nondocumentary — a film or television programme not reflecting real life
- of your dreams — If you describe someone or something as the person or thing of your dreams, you mean that you consider them to be ideal or perfect.
- osmoregulatory — Of or pertaining to osmoregulation.
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parsimoniously — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
- primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
- pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
- pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- pure democracy — a form of democracy in which the laws and policies are made directly by the citizens rather than by representatives.
- pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
- quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
- sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
- simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- snowy mountain — of or relating to the Snowy Mountains of Australia or their inhabitants
- sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
- start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
- temporary duty — duty of limited duration performed with an organization other than the one to which a person is normally attached or assigned. Abbreviation: TDY.
- thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography) A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- ultramicrotomy — the practice of using an ultramicrotome
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- uncontemporary — outmoded
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- unromantically — in an unromantic manner
- virtual memory — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.