10-letter words containing u, y, s
- cystinuria — a condition in which excessive levels of cystine are present in the urine
- cytococcus — (biology) The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.
- 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)
- decorously — characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
- delusively — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- desirously — With desire; eagerly.
- desk study — a preliminary investigation and report into something collating currently available relevant information
- dextrously — Alternative form of dexterously.
- didynamous — (of plants) having four stamens arranged in two pairs of unequal length, as in the foxglove
- diffusedly — in a diffused manner
- diphyllous — having two leaves.
- discursory — of or relating to discourse
- disfluency — Pathology. impairment of the ability to produce smooth, fluent speech.
- disputably — In a disputable manner.
- disqualify — to deprive of qualification or fitness; render unfit; incapacitate.
- disquietly — In a disquiet manner.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- disutility — the quality of causing inconvenience, harm, distress, etc.
- dolorously — In a dolorous manner.
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- dust bunny — Slang. a loose, tangled ball of dust, lint, hair, etc., especially as found under a low piece of furniture.
- dust kitty — a dust ball.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- dysfluency — disfluency.
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- effusively — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- endomysium — A layer of connective tissue which surrounds individual muscle fibers.
- enormously — To a very great degree or extent; considerably.
- erymanthus — Mountmountain in the NW Peloponnesus, Greece: 7,297 ft (2,224 m): in Greek mythology, haunt of a savage boar captured by Hercules
- esuriently — In an esurient manner.
- eucalyptus — A fast-growing evergreen Australasian tree that has been widely introduced elsewhere . It is valued for its timber, oil, gum, and resin, and as an ornamental tree.
- eukaryotes — Plural form of eukaryote.
- euphrosyne — one of the three Graces
- eurystheus — a grandson of Perseus, who, through the favour of Hera, inherited the kingship of Mycenae, which Zeus had intended for Hercules
- eurythmics — A rhythmic interpretation of music with graceful, free-style dance movements.
- excusatory — Serving to make an excuse.
- exiguously — In an exiguous way.
- fabulosity — (uncountable) Fabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
- fabulously — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- factiously — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- feateously — in a featous manner
- feverously — feverish.
- flexuosity — the quality or condition of being flexuous.
- flexuously — In a flexuous way.
- flunkeyish — resembling a flunkey
- flunkeyism — Alt form flunkyism.
- frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
- funduscopy — Ophthalmoscopic examination of the fundus of the eye.