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16-letter words containing y, u, a, n, t

  • minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • month of sundays — a long time
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • mount erymanthus — a mountain in SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese. Height: 2224 m (7297 ft)
  • multi-way branch — switch statement
  • natural immunity — immunity that is present without prior immunization.
  • natural monopoly — the situation when, due to the economies of scale of a particular industry, the maximum efficiency of production and distribution is realized through a single supplier
  • natural theology — theology based on knowledge of the natural world and on human reason, apart from revelation.
  • naturalistically — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
  • neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
  • neuroarthropathy — (medicine) Any disease of a joint that is associated with a disease of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
  • nguyen van thieu — Nguyen Van [ngoo-yen vahn,, noo-] /ˈŋuˈyɛn vɑn,, ˈnu-/ (Show IPA), 1923–2001, South Vietnamese political leader: president 1967–75.
  • nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
  • occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
  • one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics)   A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
  • oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
  • orthodoxy sunday — a solemn festival held on the first Sunday of Lent (Orthodoxy Sunday) commemorating the restoration of the use of icons in the church (a.d. 842) and the triumph over all heresies.
  • paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
  • passive immunity — immunity resulting from the injection of antibodies or sensitized lymphocytes from another organism or, in infants, from the transfer of antibodies through the placenta or from colostrum.
  • patent ambiguity — uncertainty of meaning created by the obscure or ambiguous language appearing on the face of a written instrument.
  • perpendicularity — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • personality cult — deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader
  • peruvian rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
  • peter stuyvesant — Peter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
  • planetary nebula — an expanding shell of thin ionized gas that is ejected from and surrounds a hot, dying star of about the same mass as the sun; the gas absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the central star and reemits it as visible light by the process of fluorescence.
  • plymouth company — a company, formed in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America and that founded a colony in Maine in 1607.
  • prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • primary industry — an industry, as agriculture, forestry, or fishing, that deals in obtaining natural materials.
  • publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
  • pulmonary artery — an artery conveying venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.
  • quasi-stationary — a person or thing that is stationary.
  • queen anne style — a style of English architecture of the early 18th cent., characterized by construction in red brick, forms modified from classical architecture, and simple, elegant, and stately ornamentation
  • quintessentially — of the pure and essential essence of something: the quintessential Jewish delicatessen.
  • rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
  • republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • run-time library — (operating system, programming, library)   A file containing routines which are linked with a program at run time rather than at compile-time. The advantage of such dynamic linking is that only one copy of the library needs to be stored, rather than a copy being included with each executable that refers to it. This can greatly reduce the disk space occupied by programs. Furthermore, it means that all programs immediately benefit from changes (e.g. bug fixes) to the single copy of the library without requiring recompilation. Since the library code is normally classified as read-only to the memory management system, it is possible for a single copy of the library to be loaded into memory and shared by all active programs, thus reducing RAM and virtual memory requirements and program load time.
  • safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
  • sandstone quarry — a quarry from which sand is extracted
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
  • security analyst — a person who specializes in evaluating information regarding stocks and bonds.
  • security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
  • standard annuity — A standard annuity is a retirement investment insurance contract that pays a regular income in return for a lump sum payment.
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