12-letter words containing y, u, r
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- eddy current — an electric current in a conducting material that results from induction by a moving or varying magnetic field.
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elytrigerous — having elytra
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- ethylmercury — (chemistry) The organometallic cation CH3CH2Hg+; it is a toxicant that does not seem to accumulate in the environment.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eurocurrency — the currency of any country held on deposit in Europe outside its home market: used as a source of short- or medium-term finance, esp in international trade, because of easy convertibility
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- extramurally — In an extramural manner.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- fluorography — photofluorography.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- formyl group — the univalent group HCO–, derived from formic acid.
- fortuitously — In a fortuitous manner.
- forty-fourth — next after the forty-third; being the ordinal number for 44.
- fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- four-by-four — a four-wheeled automotive vehicle having four-wheel drive.
- fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
- frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
- fraudulently — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- furry friend — a pet, esp a cat or a dog
- gargantuanly — In an gargantuan manner.
- gateway drug — any mood-altering drug, as a stimulant or tranquilizer, that does not cause physical dependence but may lead to the use of addictive drugs, as heroin.
- gauge theory — a type of theory of elementary particles designed to explain the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions in terms of exchange of virtual particles
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.