9-letter words containing u, y, s
- buckley's — no chance at all
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
- bullishly — in a bullish manner
- bush baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-loop — tight loop
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- buttinsky — a busybody
- callously — made hard; hardened.
- calyculus — a small, cuplike part, as a taste bud, or a cuplike depression, as in a coral skeleton
- capsulary — Archaic form of capsular.
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- causality — Causality is the relationship of cause and effect.
- causeways — Plural form of causeway.
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- coccygeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the pelvic wall, that in combination with the levator ani forms the pelvic diaphragm.
- copiously — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- corduroys — trousers or breeches of corduroy
- costumery — multiple costumes considered collectively
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- cry quits — to give up a task, fight, etc
- cultishly — In a cultish manner.
- curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
- curiously — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- currishly — In a currish manner; like a cur or knave.
- cursively — In a cursive manner.
- cursorily — going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a newspaper article.
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- curtsying — Present participle of curtsey.
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- cynosures — Plural form of cynosure.
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- deviously — departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect: a devious course.
- diffusely — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- dionysius — ("the Elder") 431?–367 b.c, Greek soldier: tyrant of Syracuse 405–367.
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- dispurvey — to strip of equipment or provisions
- doughboys — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- dry nurse — a nurse who cares for a child without suckling it
- dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.
- dryasdust — a dull, pedantic person