12-letter words containing y, e, u
- equifinality — The property of being equifinal.
- equitability — The quality of being equitable; equitableness.
- equity issue — the sale of new stocks to an investor by a company
- equivalently — In an equivalent manner; equally.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- ethylmercury — (chemistry) The organometallic cation CH3CH2Hg+; it is a toxicant that does not seem to accumulate in the environment.
- etymologicum — an etymological dictionary
- eucalyptuses — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphoniously — In a euphonious manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eurocurrency — the currency of any country held on deposit in Europe outside its home market: used as a source of short- or medium-term finance, esp in international trade, because of easy convertibility
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
- exhaustively — In an exhaustive manner.
- extramurally — In an extramural manner.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- fatigue duty — any of the mainly domestic duties performed by military personnel, esp as a punishment
- fatty tissue — tissue with excessive accumulation of fat
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
- fraudulently — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- function key — a key on a computer keyboard or terminal that, when pressed, alone or in combination with other keys, causes a specific computational or mechanical operation to be carried out.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- furry friend — a pet, esp a cat or a dog
- fuzzy subset — In fuzzy logic, a fuzzy subset F of a set S is defined by a "membership function" which gives the degree of membership of each element of S belonging to F.
- fuzzy-headed — not given to clear thinking; foolish.
- gateway drug — any mood-altering drug, as a stimulant or tranquilizer, that does not cause physical dependence but may lead to the use of addictive drugs, as heroin.
- gauge theory — a type of theory of elementary particles designed to explain the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions in terms of exchange of virtual particles
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.