8-letter words containing a, y, u
- autotypy — (dated, photography) An early photographic process that produced autotypes using a carbon pigment.
- auxocyte — any cell undergoing meiosis, esp an oocyte or spermatocyte
- auxology — (biology) The study of growth.
- ayacucho — a city in SE Peru: nearby is the site of the battle (1824) that won independence for Peru. Pop: 150 000 (2005 est)
- ayurveda — an ancient medical treatise on the art of healing and prolonging life, sometimes regarded as a fifth Veda
- babruysk — a city in SE Belarus, in Europe, SE of Minsk.
- bayreuth — a city in E Germany, in NE Bavaria: home and burial place of Richard Wagner; annual festivals of his music. Pop: 74 818 (2003 est)
- beautify — If you beautify something, you make it look more beautiful.
- blue jay — a common, crested North American jay (Cyanocitta cristata) with a blue upper body and head
- boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
- bradbury — Sir Malcolm (Stanley). 1932–2000, British novelist and critic. His novels include The History Man (1975), Rates of Exchange (1983), Cuts (1988), and Doctor Criminale (1992)
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- buccally — from the point of view of the cheek or mouth
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bull bay — evergreen magnolia.
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- buy-back — A buy-back is a situation in which a company buys shares back from its investors.
- caducity — perishableness
- calycule — an epicalyx
- calyculi — Plural form of calyculus.
- camaguey — a city in E central Cuba. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- carryout — designating or of prepared food sold as by a restaurant to be eaten away from the premises
- casually — happening by chance; fortuitous: a casual meeting.
- casualty — A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.
- caudally — Anatomy, Zoology. of, at, or near the tail or the posterior end of the body.
- causally — of, constituting, or implying a cause.
- causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- chalukya — a dynasty of central India, ruling a.d. c500–753, and restored a.d. 973–1190.
- chauncey — a masculine name
- chupatty — Alternative spelling of chapatti.
- chyluria — the presence of chyle in urine
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- culinary — Culinary means concerned with cooking.
- culpably — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- curatory — the office of a curator
- curranty — full of currants
- custardy — resembling custard