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13-letter words containing y, o, u, l

  • odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
  • old and young — people of all ages
  • openmouthedly — in a manner filled with amazement and wonder
  • opprobriously — In an opprobrious manner.
  • outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
  • overseriously — in an excessively serious manner
  • overzealously — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
  • owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
  • partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
  • phyllophagous — (of an organism) feeding on leaves.
  • phylloquinone — vitamin K1.
  • physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • plane journey — a journey made by flying in an aeroplane
  • platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
  • pleurisy root — a North American milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, whose root was used as a remedy for pleurisy.
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
  • pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • polyadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three or more sets or bundles.
  • polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • polychotomous — divided into multiple parts
  • polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
  • polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
  • polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
  • polythalamous — having multiple chambers
  • precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
  • producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
  • public policy — the fundamental policy on which laws rest, especially policy not yet enunciated in specific rules.
  • punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • pyrocellulose — cordite.
  • qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
  • quality point — Education. grade point.
  • quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
  • quasi-totally — constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
  • quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
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