14-letter words containing y, o, u, n, e
- countereconomy — an economy operating simultaneously with or in opposition to the established economic system.
- country people — people who live in the country
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
- cryptocurrency — a decentralized digital medium of exchange which is created, regulated, and exchanged using cryptography and (usually) open source software
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- deoxyguanosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to guanosine.
- dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
- disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
- don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
- double density — floppy disk
- edward yourdon — (person) A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
- enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
- enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- equity account — An equity account is an account recording ownership interests in a company.
- essay question — an examination question that requires an answer in the form of an essay
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
- honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperconscious — acutely aware.
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
- inconclusively — In an inconclusive manner.
- inconsequently — In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence.
- induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- inquiry office — an office or department of a business, organization, etc, which deals with inquiries or requests for information
- intercommunity — common ownership, use, participation, etc.