15-letter words containing y, n
- under your belt — If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
- under your feet — If you say that someone is under your feet, you are annoyed because they are with you or near you, and are bothering you.
- under-frequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- under-secretary — UK ministerial position
- underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- unextraordinary — beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.
- ungrammatically — in an ungrammatical manner
- unidiomatically — in a way that is not idiomatic
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- unintentionally — not intentional or deliberate: an unintentional omission from the list.
- uninterestingly — in a way that is not interesting
- unintermittedly — in an unintermitted manner
- uninterruptedly — in a manner that is not broken, discontinued, or hindered
- union territory — one of the 6 administrative territories that, with 28 states, make up the Republic of India
- university city — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
- university park — a city in N Texas.
- university wits — a name given to an Elizabethan group of university-trained playwrights and pamphleteers, among them Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Nash, and George Peele.
- unix conspiracy — [ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from AT&T). This theory was lent a substantial impetus in 1984 by the paper referenced in the back door entry. In this view, Unix was designed to be one of the first computer viruses (see virus) - but a virus spread to computers indirectly by people and market forces, rather than directly through disks and networks. Adherents of this "Unix virus" theory like to cite the fact that the well-known quotation "Unix is snake oil" was uttered by DEC president Kenneth Olsen shortly before DEC began actively promoting its own family of Unix workstations. (Olsen now claims to have been misquoted.)
- unknown country — an unfamiliar topic, place, matter, etc
- unmanageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- unobjectionably — without objection
- unparliamentary — not parliamentary; at variance with or contrary to the methods employed by parliamentary bodies.
- unpatriotically — in a manner that is not enthusiastically supporting one's country and its ways of life
- unprecedentedly — without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.
- unpretentiously — without pretension
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- unquestioningly — in manner that accepts something without expressing doubt or uncertainty
- unrealistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
- unsarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- untraditionally — in an untraditional fashion; not traditionally
- untrustworthily — in an untrustworthy manner; not trustworthily
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
- urinary bladder — a distensible, muscular and membranous sac, in which the urine is retained until it is discharged from the body.
- uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
- utility company — a company which supplies utilities, such as gas, electricity, phones, etc
- vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication
- valency grammar — a system of linguistic syntax, conceived by analogy with chemical valency, according to which verbs have valencies dependent on the number of noun phrases with which they combine
- valentine's day — February 14, observed in honor of St. Valentine as a day for the exchange of valentines and other tokens of affection.
- valerian family — the plant family Valerianaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple or compound, opposite leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, indehiscent fruit, and including corn salad, spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi), and valerian.
- vanishing spray — a substance that disperses without trace shortly after it is sprayed onto a surface, used in football to mark a temporary line behind which defenders must stand when a free kick is taken
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
- vice-presidency — the position of a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic, esp of the US, and serves as his deputy
- victoria nyanza — Victoria (def 10).
- video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
- viewing gallery — an area in a building or outside for viewing an activity, the surrounding scenery, etc