15-letter words containing y, o, u, l
- succinylcholine — a drug, C14H30N2O4, used primarily as a muscle relaxant, produced by the esterization of succinic acid with choline
- sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
- surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
- tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours
- the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
- the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- tutorial system — a system of education, especially in some colleges, in which instruction is given personally by tutors, who also act as general advisers of a small group of students in their charge.
- tweet you later — (on the Twitter website) goodbye; see you later
- ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
- un-fortuitously — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
- unceremoniously — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
- uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
- uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
- uncomplementary — forming a complement; completing.
- uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- unconditionally — not limited by conditions; absolute: an unconditional promise.
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- under your belt — If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
- underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- unidiomatically — in a way that is not idiomatic
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- unintentionally — not intentional or deliberate: an unintentional omission from the list.
- unobjectionably — without objection
- unpatriotically — in a manner that is not enthusiastically supporting one's country and its ways of life
- unpretentiously — without pretension
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- unquestioningly — in manner that accepts something without expressing doubt or uncertainty
- unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
- untraditionally — in an untraditional fashion; not traditionally
- untrustworthily — in an untrustworthy manner; not trustworthily
- upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
- 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
- utility program — system software used to perform standard operations, as sorting data or copying data from one file to another, for application programs or other system software.
- volume velocity — the movement caused by a sound wave of a unit volume of a sound-transmitting medium through a unit area per unit of time.
- voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
- whitley council — any of a number of organizations made up of representatives of employees and employers for joint consultation on and settlement of industrial relations and conditions for a particular industry or service