8-letter words containing c, u, y
- eurydice — a dryad married to Orpheus, who sought her in Hades after she died. She could have left Hades with him had he not broken his pact and looked back at her
- executry — the office or activities of an executor; an executorship
- fructify — to bear fruit; become fruitful: With careful tending the plant will fructify.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fulgency — the quality of being fulgent; resplendence; brightness
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- gauchely — In a gauche manner.
- gynecium — gynoecium.
- huancayo — a city in central Peru, on the Mantaro River.
- hummocky — Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
- icy blue — of a very pale blue colour
- jocundly — In a jocund manner.
- kentucky — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- key club — a private nightclub admitting only members and their guests, the members often being given door keys to the club.
- keypunch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- lacunary — Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of a lacuna.
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- locutory — locutorium.
- louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
- lucidity — the quality of being easily understood, completely intelligible, or comprehensible: She makes her argument with pointed logic and exemplary lucidity.
- lucky sb — You can use lucky in expressions such as 'Lucky you' and 'Lucky devil' when you are slightly jealous of someone else's good luck or success, or surprised at it.
- lycurgus — flourished 9th century b.c, Spartan lawgiver.
- macaulay — Dame Rose, c1885–1958, English poet and novelist.
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- micrurgy — the manipulation and examination of single cells under a microscope
- mucosity — The state of being mucous.
- munkacsy — Mihály von [mi-hahy fuh n] /ˈmɪ haɪ fən/ (Show IPA), (Michael Lieb) 1844–1900, Hungarian painter.
- mycelium — the mass of hyphae that form the vegetative part of a fungus.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- navy cut — tobacco finely cut from a block
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- occultly — In an occult manner.
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- psych up — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- publicly — by the state
- pudicity — modesty; chastity
- pungency — sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid.
- pussycat — a cat; pussy.
- quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
- reoccupy — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- rusticly — in a rustic manner
- schlumpy — like a schlump
- schmutzy — Slang. dirty; grimy.