8-letter words containing u, y, s
- huysmans — Joris Karl [zhoh-rees kahrl] /ʒoʊˈris kɑrl/ (Show IPA), (Charles Marie Georges Huysmans) 1848–1907, French novelist.
- hymettus — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens. 3370 feet (1027 meters).
- illusory — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- ilyushin — Sergei Vladimirovich (sɛrˈɡɛi vladiˈmiːrovɪtʃ). 1894–1977, Soviet aircraft designer. He designed the dive bomber Il-2 Stormovik and the jet airliner Il-62
- industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- isobutyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent hydrocarbon radical derived from isobutanol.
- jealousy — jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
- journeys — Plural form of journey.
- joyously — joyful; happy; jubilant: the joyous sounds of children at play.
- juryless — Without a jury.
- jurymast — a temporary mast assembled to replace a broken one
- katyusha — Alternative case form of Katyusha.
- ladybugs — Plural form of ladybug.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- lathyrus — a genus of leguminous climbing plants that includes the sweet pea
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- lekythus — lekythos.
- luanshya — a town in central Zambia.
- 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.
- lysippus — flourished c360–c320 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- maudslay — Henry, 1771–1831, English mechanical engineer.
- mucosity — The state of being mucous.
- mulishly — In a mulish manner.
- munkacsy — Mihály von [mi-hahy fuh n] /ˈmɪ haɪ fən/ (Show IPA), (Michael Lieb) 1844–1900, Hungarian painter.
- musingly — absorbed in thought; meditative.
- musketry — Military. the technique of bringing fire from a group of rifle and automatic weapons to bear on specified targets.
- mustardy — Like mustard.
- mystique — a framework of doctrines, ideas, beliefs, or the like, constructed around a person or object, endowing the person or object with enhanced value or profound meaning: the mystique of Poe.
- obtusely — not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
- odiously — deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- odysseus — king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War.
- of yours — belonging to or associated with you
- olynthus — an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.
- outstudy — to outdo in studying
- overbusy — Excessively busy.
- overbuys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbuy.
- paduasoy — a slightly corded, strong, rich, silk fabric.
- pay-stub — a document attached to or accompanying a paycheck as a record of gross earnings and deductions.
- paysandu — a city in W Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- physique — physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development: the physique of an athlete.
- platypus — a small, aquatic, egg-laying monotreme, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, of Australia and Tasmania, having webbed feet, a tail like that of a beaver, a sensitive bill resembling that of a duck, and, in adult males, venom-injecting spurs on the ankles of the hind limbs, used primarily for fighting with other males during the breeding season.
- playsuit — a sports costume for women and children, usually consisting of shorts and a shirt, worn as beachwear, for tennis, etc.
- pleurisy — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- plushily — in a plush manner
- polybius — c205–c123 b.c, Greek historian.
- polypous — polypoid.
- porously — full of pores.
- prestudy — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- pseudery — pretentious talk