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14-letter words containing y, n

  • donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
  • dramatic irony — irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
  • dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
  • drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • dynamic typing — (programming)   Enforcement of type rules at run time as opposed to compile time. Dynamic typing catches more errors as run-time exceptions than static typing.
  • dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
  • each and every — all
  • early american — (of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.
  • early check-in — An early check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in earlier than the normal time.
  • earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • easy listening — middle-of-the-road (def 3).
  • easy-listening — Also called easy listening. popular music having comparatively conventional, melodic qualities and hence having broad commercial appeal.
  • economic cycle — business cycle.
  • edward yourdon — (person)   A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
  • effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
  • egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
  • eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
  • electrifyingly — In an electrifying manner.
  • electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
  • electronically — By means of electronics, or of electronic technology.
  • electrosensory — Of or pertaining to the ability of a biological organism to perceive electrical impulses.
  • electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
  • embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
  • embellishingly — in an embellishing manner
  • emergency call — a telephone call to the emergency services made during an emergency
  • emergency exit — door, way out
  • emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
  • emergency room — hospital: casualty department
  • emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
  • emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
  • employment law — rules governing working practices
  • enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
  • encephalopathy — A disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition (such as viral infection or toxins in the blood).
  • encompassingly — So as to encompass.
  • encyclopaediae — Irregular plural form of encyclopaedia.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • encyclopedical — (American spelling) alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
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