10-letter words containing u, y
- inhumanely — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- inhumanity — the state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty.
- innumeracy — unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods; unable to use mathematics; not numerate.
- insalutary — Not salutary or wholesome; bad for health.
- insecurely — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- insecurity — lack of confidence or assurance; self-doubt: He is plagued by insecurity.
- insularity — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- insurgency — the state or condition of being insurgent.
- inurbanity — Lack of urbanity or courtesy; bad manners.
- invaluably — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
- iron putty — a compound of iron oxide and boiled linseed oil for caulking pipe joints.
- isobutyric — Of or pertaining to isobutyric acid or its derivatives.
- ivory gull — a white, arctic gull, Pagophila eburnea.
- ivy league — a group of colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S., consisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown, having a reputation for high scholastic achievement and social prestige.
- jaculatory — relating to hurling or throwing
- jerrybuild — To assemble a project in a hasty, low-quality manner, especially when cheap, low-quality and/or inappropriate materials are used.
- jerrybuilt — Of or pertaining to a shoddily built structure.
- jocularity — the state or quality of being jocular.
- john tukey — (person) The eminent statistician credited with coining the term "bit" in 1949.
- journeying — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- journeyman — a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
- journeymen — a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
- jouy print — toile de Jouy.
- jouysaunce — joy
- jovysaunce — joy
- joy buzzer — a device used for a practical joke with a handshake, concealed in the palm of the hand and producing a buzzing sound and an unpleasant vibrating sensation when it is pressed against the victim's hand.
- joyfulness — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
- joyousness — The state of being joyous.
- jubilantly — With jubilation or triumph.
- jubilatory — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- judicatory — of or relating to judgment or the administration of justice; judiciary: judicatory power.
- judicially — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- jugglingly — in a juggling or manipulative manner
- julian day — a serial number equal to the number of days elapsed since January 1, 4713 b.c., proposed by Joseph Scaliger in 1582 and used in astronomical calculations: January 1, 1965, at noon, Greenwich Civil Time, was Julian Day 2,438,762.0. Abbreviation: J.D.
- jumblingly — in a jumbling or tumultuous manner
- jungle gym — children's climbing frame
- jury wheel — a device, containing slips with the names of prospective jurors, that when spun mixes the names for random selection.
- justiciary — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- justifying — Present participle of justify.
- juvenility — juvenile state, character, or manner.
- karaya gum — the dried exudate of an Asian tree, Sterculia urens, used for finishing textiles and as a thickening agent in cosmetics and foodstuffs.
- keepy-uppy — the act or an instance of keeping a ball off the ground by bouncing it repeatedly on a foot, knee, or head
- keypunched — Simple past tense and past participle of keypunch.
- keypuncher — A keypunch.
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- kitakyushu — a seaport on N Kyushu, in S Japan: formed in 1963 by the merger of five cities (Kokura, Moji, Tobata, Wakamatsu, and Yawata)
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- krita yuga — Satya Yuga.
- la bruyere — Jean de [zhahn duh] /ʒɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1645–96, French moralist and author.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.