10-letter words containing a, y, u
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- case study — A case study is a written account that gives detailed information about a person, group, or thing and their development over a period of time.
- cauliflory — the production of flowers on the trunk, branches, etc, of a woody plant, as opposed to the ends of the twigs
- causticity — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- chartulary — cartulary
- chuck away — If you chuck something away, you throw it away or waste it.
- churchyard — A churchyard is an area of land around a church where dead people are buried.
- chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.
- circularly — In a circular way.
- clay court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
- clay flour — dried and pulverized clay.
- cluny lace — a strong heavy silk and cotton bobbin lace made at Cluny or elsewhere
- cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- communally — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- confusably — In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
- conjugally — In a conjugal manner; as husband and wife.
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- creaturely — creatural.
- cruciality — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- cuckoo ray — a fish, Raja naevus
- culinarily — of, relating to, or used in cooking or the kitchen.
- culturally — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curability — capable of being cured.
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curry leaf — a shrub or tree, Murraya koenigii, of India and Sri Lanka.
- cutability — the portion of saleable lean meat on a carcass
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- cystinuria — a condition in which excessive levels of cystine are present in the urine
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- daisy bush — any of various shrubs of the genus Olearia, of Australia and New Zealand, with daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- daunomycin — an anthracycline drug that is used as a medication in the treatment of some forms of cancer
- dauntingly — In a daunting manner.
- day return — A day return is a train or bus ticket which allows you to go somewhere and come back on the same day for a lower price than an ordinary return ticket.
- death duty — a tax on property inheritances: in Britain, replaced in 1975 by capital transfer tax and since 1986 by inheritance tax
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- didynamous — (of plants) having four stamens arranged in two pairs of unequal length, as in the foxglove
- disputably — In a disputable manner.
- disqualify — to deprive of qualification or fitness; render unfit; incapacitate.
- dissuasory — dissuasive