13-letter words containing y, o, u, r, e
- countryperson — Someone who is from a countryside background.
- courtesy call — a formal visit
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
- currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
- daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
- daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
- dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- deleteriously — In a deleterious manner; harmfully.
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- deuteromycete — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
- equilibratory — Relating to the physical sense of balance, or equilibrium.
- erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
- estrous cycle — the regular female reproductive cycle of most placental mammals that is under hormonal control and includes a period of heat, followed by ovulation and complex changes of the uterine lining
- expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
- genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
- group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
- gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
- gyrofrequency — the frequency of rotation of an electron or other charged particle in a magnetic field, directly proportional to the charge of the particle and to the field strength and inversely proportional to the mass of the particle.
- he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
- heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
- heusler alloy — any of various alloys of manganese and other nonferromagnetic metals that exhibit ferromagnetism.
- holyroodhouse — a royal palace in Edinburgh in Scotland: official residence of the Queen when in Scotland; begun in 1501 by James IV of Scotland; scene of the murder of David Rizzio in 1566
- honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.