11-letter words containing y, u, e
- hypothenuse — hypotenuse.
- idle pulley — a loose pulley made to press or rest on a belt in order to tighten or guide it.
- if you like — You say if you like when you are making or agreeing to an offer or suggestion in a casual way.
- immune body — antibody
- imperiously — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- impetuosity — the quality or condition of being impetuous.
- impetuously — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- importunely — (obsolete) In an importune manner.
- imprudently — Without prudence; in an imprudent manner.
- impulse buy — spur-of-the-moment purchase
- impulsively — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- inclusively — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- incredulity — the quality or state of being incredulous; inability or unwillingness to believe.
- inductively — of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
- indulgently — characterized by or showing indulgence; benignly lenient or permissive: an indulgent parent.
- ineluctably — incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny. Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable. Antonyms: certain, sure, fated.
- inequitably — not equitable; unjust or unfair: an inequitable decision.
- inexcusably — incapable of being excused or justified.
- infecundity — not fecund; unfruitful; barren.
- inferiourly — Obsolete form of inferiorly.
- infrequency — state of being infrequent.
- ingeniously — characterized by cleverness or originality of invention or construction: an ingenious machine.
- ingenuously — free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
- injury time — sport: stoppage time, extension of play by time spent treating injured players
- inky smudge — a judge
- innumerably — very numerous.
- insuperably — In an insuperable manner.
- insurgently — In an insurgent manner.
- intercounty — conducted between or involving two or more counties
- interlunary — interlunar
- intrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- intuitively — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
- irreducibly — In an irreducible manner, or state.
- irrefutably — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- irregularly — without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
- irresolubly — In a irresoluble manner.
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- jejunectomy — excision of part or all of the jejunum.
- jejunostomy — an artificial opening from the jejunum through the abdominal wall, created for the drainage of jejunal contents or for feeding.
- jelly mould — a mould made of glass, copper, etc, used to make a jelly in a decorative shape
- jerry-build — to build cheaply and flimsily.
- jerry-built — built cheaply and flimsily.
- jockey club — an association for the regulation and promotion of thoroughbred horse racing, usually composed of racing officials and thoroughbred owners at a specific racetrack or in a particular region.
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- jubal early — Jubal Anderson [joo-buh l] /ˈdʒu bəl/ (Show IPA), 1816–94, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
- judge lynch — the personification of lynch law.
- jump jockey — A jump jockey is someone who rides horses in races such as steeplechases, where the horses have to jump over obstacles.
- jury system — a legal system used to determine the facts in a lawsuit
- jury-rigged — Nautical. a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc.
- kelly hours — a suggestion for the name of the hours before and after the traditional school day during which child-minding facilities are provided for the children of working parents