16-letter words containing y
- enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
- erlenmeyer flask — conical container used in laboratory
- erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
- erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
- erythrocytometer — an instrument for counting the number or measuring the size of red blood cells in a sample of blood
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- ethnomethodology — A method of sociological analysis that examines how individuals use everyday conversation and gestures to construct a common-sense view of the world.
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
- expected utility — the weighted average utility of the possible outcomes of a probabilistic situation; the sum or integral of the product of the probability distribution and the utility function
- expressionlessly — Without expression; in an expressionless way.
- extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
- exterritoriality — Extraterritoriality.
- extracorporeally — Outside the body.
- eyebrow tweezers — small tweezers for plucking hairs out of your eyebrows
- eyjafjallajökull — a cone-shaped ice cap in south Iceland that covers an active volcano. The volcano’s eruption in 2010 resulted in large high-altitude clouds of volcanic ash that caused major disruption to European passenger air traffic. Height: 1666 m (5466 ft)
- factor of safety — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
- family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- family physician — a general practitioner.
- fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress
- fantasy baseball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- fantasy football — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
- feminine hygiene — hygiene relating to specifically female aspects of the body
- ferricyanic acid — a brown, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 3 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferricyanide and an acid.
- ferrocyanic acid — a white, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 4 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferrocyanide and an acid.
- ferroelectricity — (physics) The electric polarization of a substance (spontaneous presence of a dipole moment) that is analagous to ferromagnetism.
- fertility clinic — a place at which a couple who are unable to conceive may receive medical advice and treatments to help them to have a child
- fertility factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
- firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
- first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
- fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flash photolysis — the study of photochemical reaction mechanisms in gases by analyzing spectroscopically the reaction products in a gas mixture irradiated with a powerful light flash.
- flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
- flat-track bully — a sportsperson who dominates inferior opposition, but who cannot beat top-level opponents
- flibbertigibbety — Like a flibbertigibbet; flighty; scatterbrained.
- flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
- flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
- flynn's taxonomy — (architecture) A classification of computer architectures based on the number of streams of instructions and data: Multiple instruction/single data stream (MISD) - unusual.
- focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals