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10-letter words containing u, y, s

  • boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
  • bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
  • buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
  • bull's-eye — The bull's-eye is the small circular area at the centre of a target.
  • bush poppy — tree poppy.
  • bustlingly — in a bustling manner
  • by request — in accordance with someone's desire
  • by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
  • 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.
  • candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
  • canorously — In a canorous manner.
  • 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.
  • causticity — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
  • cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
  • chelyuskin — Capenorthernmost point of Asia, on the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia
  • chorus boy — a male singer or dancer of the chorus of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, etc.
  • chrysippus — 280–209? b.c, Greek Stoic philosopher.
  • churlishly — In a churlish manner.
  • chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.
  • cliquishly — In a cliquish manner.
  • cocksurely — In a cocksure manner.
  • compulsory — If something is compulsory, you must do it or accept it, because it is the law or because someone in a position of authority says you must.
  • conclusory — of, relating to, or involving an end or conclusion
  • confusably — In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
  • confusedly — to perplex or bewilder: The flood of questions confused me.
  • consultory — consultative
  • consumedly — (intensifier)
  • corn syrup — syrup prepared from maize
  • 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
  • counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
  • countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
  • courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
  • covetously — inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy.
  • crushingly — You can use crushingly to emphasize the degree of a negative quality.
  • cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
  • cubbyholes — Plural form of cubbyhole.
  • culdoscopy — Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina.
  • cumbrously — In a cumbrous manner.
  • curiousity — Misspelling of curiosity.
  • currycombs — Plural form of currycomb.
  • curtseying — Present participle of curtsey.
  • cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
  • cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
  • 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
  • cygnus x-1 — a strong x-ray source in the constellation Cygnus, consisting of a binary system of which one component may be a black hole.
  • cynomolgus — a macaque native to SE Asia
  • cynopodous — (of some mammals, such as dogs) having claws that do not retract
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