12-letter words containing y, o, u, l
- country lane — a narrow country road, often bordered by hedges
- country life — life in the country
- country mile — a long way
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- courtly love — a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- cyclostomous — of or relating to a cyclostome
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- dispiteously — in a manner that lacks pity
- doodly-squat — a minimum amount or degree; the least bit (usually used in the negative): This coin collection isn't worth doodly-squat in today's market.
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
- double dummy — a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
- duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- eleemosynous — Describes a gift or donation made as an act of charity or almsgiving.
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elytrigerous — having elytra
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- endogenously — In an endogenous manner.
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- etymologicum — an etymological dictionary
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphoniously — In a euphonious manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.