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19-letter words containing y, u, a, n

  • february revolution — Russian Revolution (def 1).
  • february-revolution — Also called February Revolution. the uprising in Russia in March, 1917 (February Old Style), in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
  • feel strongly about — to have decided opinions concerning
  • fellow countrywoman — a fellow countrywoman is a female citizen of the same state as the person speaking, writing, or being referred to
  • fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
  • free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
  • functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
  • functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
  • go out of one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
  • green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
  • heart in your mouth — If your heart is in your mouth, you feel very excited, worried, or frightened.
  • henry david thoreauHenry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
  • high-bush cranberry — cranberry bush
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • hydropneumatization — utilization of air pressure in the housing of a water turbine to keep the level of water that has been used from rising to interfere with the rotor blades.
  • hydroxydaunorubicin — Doxorubicin.
  • indemnity insurance — insurance covering against damage or loss
  • individualistically — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
  • industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
  • introduction agency — a company whose business is to match romantic partners for a fee
  • isobutyl propionate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used chiefly as a paint, varnish, and lacquer solvent.
  • jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
  • judgment by default — a judgment in the plaintiff's favour when the defendant fails to plead or to appear
  • keep an eye out for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
  • land of opportunity — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
  • language laboratory — a special room or rooms with sound-recording and -reproducing equipment for use by students to practice speaking foreign languages, usually with an instructor monitoring the program.
  • least recently used — (operating systems) (LRU) A rule used in a paging system which selects a page to be paged out if it has been used (read or written) less recently than any other page. The same rule may also be used in a cache to select which cache entry to flush. This rule is based on temporal locality - the observation that, in general, the page (or cache entry) which has not been accessed for longest is least likely to be accessed in the near future.
  • leukoencephalopathy — (medicine) Any disease that effects the white matter of the brain.
  • liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against losses arising from injury or damage to another person or property.
  • longitudinal parity — (storage, communications)   An extra byte (or word) appended to a block of data in order to reveal corruption of the data. Bit n of this byte indicates whether there was an even or odd number of "1" bits in bit position n of the bytes in the block. The parity byte is computed by XORing the data bytes in the block. Longitudinal parity allows single bit errors to be detected.
  • magnesium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, Mg(OH) 2 , used chiefly in medicine as an antacid and as a laxative.
  • mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
  • metropolitan county — (in England) any of the six conurbations established as administrative units in the new local government system in 1974; the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986
  • molecular astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the study of molecules in space.
  • motorway restaurant — a restaurant on a motorway
  • multidimensionality — The property of being multidimensional.
  • multimedia analysis — Multimedia analysis is the consideration of all possible risks relating to pollution and waste management.
  • multiple-entry visa — a visa that permits the holder to enter a country several times
  • munchausen syndrome — a factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self-induced pathology in order to receive surgical or other medical treatment.
  • mutual fund company — a company that sells and manages mutual funds
  • narcotics anonymous — an organization that helps drug users recover from drug addiction
  • near letter quality — a quality of print that is not quite letter quality, but is better than draft quality
  • negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
  • neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
  • neuropsychodynamics — The theoretical synthesis of neuroscience and psychodynamics.
  • new year resolution — a promise to yourself or decision to do something, especially to improve one's behaviour or lifestyle in some way, during the year ahead
  • newcastle upon tyne1st Duke of, Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
  • nine plus two array — the arrangement of microtubules in a flagellum or cilium, consisting of a ring of nine evenly spaced couplets surrounding two central singlets. Symbol: 9 + 2.
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