10-letter words containing a, y, u
- assuringly — In an assuring manner.
- auctionary — of or relating to auctions or auctioneers
- audibility — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- audiometry — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auditorily — in an auditory manner, by hearing
- aunt sally — a figure of an old woman's head, typically with a clay pipe, used in fairgrounds and fêtes as a target for balls or other objects
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- autecology — the ecological study of an individual organism or species
- authourity — Obsolete form of authority.
- autography — the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten
- autolysate — the substances resulting as the end product of autolysis
- autolysins — Plural form of autolysin.
- autonymous — (of a word or words) appearing in its own form or directly quoted
- autoplasty — surgical repair of defects by grafting or transplanting tissue from the patient's own body
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autotrophy — (in certain plants and bacteria) the process of making food from inorganic substances, using photosynthesis
- autumnally — belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn: autumnal colors.
- auxotrophy — the inability to synthesize particular growth factors, due to mutational changes
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- baby blues — depression suffered after childbirth
- baby bonus — family allowance
- baby buggy — A baby buggy is a small folding seat with wheels, which a young child can sit in and which can be pushed around.
- baby jesus — Jesus as a baby, esp in Nativity scenes
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- bay laurel — a small evergreen Mediterranean laurel, Laurus nobilis, with glossy aromatic leaves, used for flavouring in cooking, and small blackish berries
- beautyless — Devoid of beauty.
- biannually — occurring twice a year; semiannual.
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- blue wavey — See under wavey.
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bonus baby — an athlete who is paid a substantial bonus to sign his or her first professional contract.
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- brachyuran — any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs
- buddh gaya — a town in NE India, in Bihar: site of the sacred bo tree under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha; pilgrimage centre. Pop: 30 883 (2001)
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
- butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- calyculate — having a calycule
- candy pull — a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- canorously — In a canorous manner.
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)