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13-letter words containing y, u, e, n

  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
  • genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
  • 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.
  • guernsey lily — a bulbous plant, Nerine sarniensis, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of crimson flowers.
  • gunnery range — place used for rifle practice
  • gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
  • gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
  • 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.
  • hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
  • he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
  • herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
  • homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
  • 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.
  • human ecology — ecology (def 4).
  • 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.
  • hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • hyperimmunize — to render highly immunized
  • hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • immune system — a diffuse, complex network of interacting cells, cell products, and cell-forming tissues that protects the body from pathogens and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells, and removes cellular debris: the system includes the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes and lymph tissue, stem cells, white blood cells, antibodies, and lymphokines.
  • immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
  • impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
  • impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
  • importunately — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
  • in perpetuity — the state or character of being perpetual (often preceded by in): to desire happiness in perpetuity.
  • in-perpetuity — the state or character of being perpetual (often preceded by in): to desire happiness in perpetuity.
  • incongruently — not congruent.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • ineducability — Inability to be educated.
  • ineffectually — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • inexhaustibly — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • influentially — having or exerting influence, especially great influence: three influential educators.
  • injured party — victim
  • inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
  • inopportunely — In an inopportune manner.
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