11-letter words containing u, y, s
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- cryosurgery — surgery involving the local destruction of tissues by quick freezing for therapeutic benefit
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cutty grass — a species of sedge, Cyperus ustulatus, of New Zealand with sharp leaves
- cutty stool — (formerly, in Scotland) the church seat on which an unchaste person sat while being harangued by the minister
- cybersurfer — A person who surfs (browses the Internet).
- cycadaceous — belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- cysticercus — an encysted larval form of many tapeworms, consisting of a head (scolex) inverted in a fluid-filled bladder
- cystogenous — forming or secreting cysts
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- dauntlessly — In a dauntless manner.
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- day nursery — A day nursery is a place where children who are too young to go to school can be left all day while their parents are at work.
- day student — a student at a college or secondary school who does not reside in a facility provided by the school
- day surgery — a system in which a patient comes into hospital for a surgical procedure, has the operation, recovers and is released from hospital in the course of a single day
- deciduously — shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.
- decursively — in a decursive manner
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- deliciously — In a delicious manner.
- deliriously — Pathology. affected with or characteristic of delirium.
- delusionary — having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- dexterously — skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body.
- diffusively — In a diffusive manner.
- diffusivity — the property of a substance indicative of the rate at which a thermal disturbance, as a rise in temperature, will be transmitted through the substance.
- discourtesy — lack or breach of courtesy; incivility; rudeness.
- disguisedly — In disguise.
- disgustedly — to cause loathing or nausea in.
- dismayfully — in a dismayful manner
- disquantity — to diminish in quantity; make less.
- dissolutely — In a dissolute manner.
- disunifying — Present participle of disunify.
- doubtlessly — without doubt; certainly; surely; unquestionably.
- dry as dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- dry measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring dry commodities, as grain or fruit. In the U.S. 2 pints = 1 quart (1.101 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (8.810 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (35.24 liters). In Great Britain 2 pints = 1 quart (1.136 liters); 4 quarts = 1 gallon (4.546 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (9.092 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (36.37 liters); 8 bushels = 1 quarter (291.0 liters).
- dry-as-dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dusky shark — a blue-gray shark, Carcharinus obscurus, of warm Atlantic and eastern Pacific seas, reaching a length of 12 feet (3.7 meters).
- dyscalculia — Severe difficulty in making arithmetical calculations, as a result of brain disorder.