16-letter words containing y, n
- electrosynthesis — synthesis produced by means of an electric current
- emergency centre — a building used, often temporarily, to coordinate the response to an emergency and to deal with some of the problems that arise during the emergency
- emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
- emergency worker — a person whose job is to help people in emergencies
- encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
- ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
- endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
- energy-efficient — A device or building that is energy-efficient uses relatively little energy to provide the power it needs.
- energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
- enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
- equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
- erlenmeyer flask — conical container used in laboratory
- erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- ethnomethodology — A method of sociological analysis that examines how individuals use everyday conversation and gestures to construct a common-sense view of the world.
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
- expressionlessly — Without expression; in an expressionless way.
- extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
- family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
- family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
- family physician — a general practitioner.
- fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress
- fantasy baseball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- fantasy football — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
- feminine hygiene — hygiene relating to specifically female aspects of the body
- ferricyanic acid — a brown, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 3 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferricyanide and an acid.
- ferrocyanic acid — a white, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 4 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferrocyanide and an acid.
- fertility clinic — a place at which a couple who are unable to conceive may receive medical advice and treatments to help them to have a child
- fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
- flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
- flynn's taxonomy — (architecture) A classification of computer architectures based on the number of streams of instructions and data: Multiple instruction/single data stream (MISD) - unusual.
- foreign currency — money used in another country
- formation flying — a formal arrangement of flying aircraft acting as a unit
- formylmethionine — Alternative spelling of formyl methionine.
- forward analysis — An analysis which determines properties of the output of a program from properties of the inputs.
- fourier analysis — the expression of any periodic function as a sum of sine and cosine functions, as in an electromagnetic wave function. Compare Fourier series.
- fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
- french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
- french directory — the body of five directors in power in France from 1795 until their overthrow by Napoleon in 1799
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- friendly islands — Tonga
- friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- frontal lobotomy — Surgery. a psychosurgical procedure in which the frontal lobes are separated from the rest of the brain by cutting the connecting nerve fibers.