15-letter words containing y, e, u
- ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
- fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
- fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
- flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
- flying squirrel — any of various nocturnal tree squirrels, as Glaucomys volans, of the eastern U.S., having folds of skin connecting the fore and hind legs, permitting long, gliding leaps.
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- fountain valley — a city in SW California.
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
- french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
- frequency curve — a curve representing the frequency with which a variable assumes its values.
- fuel efficiency — the (least) amount of fuel used in proportion to the number of miles travelled
- full employment — all of workforce is employed
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- funny handshake — an elaborate handshake, indicating that someone belongs to a certain social group, etc
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
- gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
- geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
- geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
- gloucester city — a city in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- great synagogue — (according to Jewish tradition) a council of 120 members, established by Ezra, that directed the Jews chiefly in religious matters, c450–c200 b.c., and made significant contributions to the Jewish liturgy and Bible.
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hautes-pyrenees — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
- head-up display — an electronic display of data from instruments or other sources projected at eye level so that a driver or pilot sees it without looking away from the road or course. Abbreviation: HUD.
- hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
- hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
- homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
- honeymoon suite — a luxurious suite in a hotel designed for honeymooners
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- house of prayer — house of God.
- house physician — a house officer working in a medical as opposed to a surgical discipline
- how do you mean — If you say 'How do you mean?' to someone, you are asking them to explain or give more details of what they have just said.
- hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
- hull efficiency — the ratio of the quantity of work required to tow a certain hull at a given speed to that required to drive it with a certain propeller: used in propeller design.
- human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
- hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- hypercalcinuria — Condition of high levels of calcium in the urine as caused by high levels of bone resorption seen in osteoporosis or hyperthyroidism.
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots