14-letter words containing y, n
- unsuccessfully — not achieving or not attended with success: an unsuccessful person; an unsuccessful venture.
- unsurprisingly — causing surprise, wonder, or astonishment.
- unsuspiciously — not suspiciously; in an unsuspicious manner
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- unsystematical — unsystematic
- unsystematized — not systematized or arranged in a system
- unthoughtfully — not thoughtfully; in an unthoughtful manner; thoughtlessly
- untouchability — the quality or condition of being an untouchable, ascribed in the Vedic tradition to persons of low caste or to persons excluded from the caste system.
- untranslatably — not translatably; in an untranslatable manner; in such a way as to be untranslatable
- unyieldingness — the quality or state of being unyielding
- up one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- urban clearway — a stretch of road in an urban area on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
- urbanistically — of or relating to urbanism.
- urinary tubule — any of the long, winding tubules of the vertebrate kidney in which urine is formed
- urine analysis — urinalysis.
- ursine dasyure — Tasmanian devil.
- vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
- van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
- vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
- verbena family — the plant family Verbenaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having opposite or whorled leaves, clusters of irregular, sometimes fragrant flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the beautyberry, lantana, teak, verbena, and vervain.
- vestmannaeyjar — a group of 14 small Icelandic islands off the S coast of Iceland.
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
- vinylacetylene — a colorless, volatile liquid, C 4 H 4 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of the synthetic rubber neoprene.
- voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
- volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
- walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- wang yang-ming — (Wang Shou-jen; Wang Shouren) 1472–1529, Chinese scholar and philosopher.
- warrantability — The quality of being warrantable.
- water hyacinth — a floating aquatic plant, Eichornia crassipes, of tropical lakes and rivers, that grows so prolifically it often hinders the passage of boats.
- wayfaring tree — a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
- ways and means — methods
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- well and truly — If you say that something is well and truly finished, gone, or done, you are emphasizing that it is completely finished or gone, or thoroughly done.
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
- with an eye to — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- with eyes open — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- working memory — temporary or short-term recall
- worldly-minded — having or showing devotion to the affairs and interests of this world.
- wyandotte cave — a cave in S Indiana: one of the most extensive in the U.S., with 23 miles (37 km) of passages.
- wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
- xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.