10-letter words containing u, y
- laugh away — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- laughingly — With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
- laundryman — a person who works in or operates a laundry.
- laundrymen — Plural form of laundryman.
- lay figure — a jointed model of the human body, usually of wood, from which artists work in the absence of a living model.
- lazy susan — a revolving tray for foods, condiments, etc., placed usually at the center of a dining table.
- leisurably — in a leisurable manner
- leucocytes — Plural form of leucocyte.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leukocytes — white blood cell.
- leukocytic — Of or pertaining to leukocytes.
- leukopathy — (pathology) depigmentation of the skin.
- lévy-bruhl — Lucien (lysjɛ̃). 1857–1939, French anthropologist and philosopher, noted for his study of the psychology of primitive peoples
- leyte gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, in the SE Philippines, between Samar and Leyte islands: U.S.-Japanese naval battle 1944.
- light-duty — made or designed to withstand comparatively moderate loads, use, or stress: light-duty trucks.
- lin yutang — (Lin Yü-t'ang) 1895–1976, Chinese author and philologist.
- linguistry — the study of language
- liquefying — Present participle of liquefy; Alternative spelling of liquifying.
- liquifying — Present participle of liquify.
- loungingly — in a lounging manner
- lousy with — infested with lice.
- low sunday — the first Sunday after Easter.
- lucklessly — In a luckless way.
- lukewarmly — In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without extremeness.
- lullabying — Present participle of lullaby.
- lumberyard — a yard where lumber is stored for sale.
- luminosity — luminance (def 2).
- luminously — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- lumpectomy — the surgical removal of a breast cyst or tumor.
- lunar year — year (def 4a).
- lundy isle — an island at the mouth of the Bristol Channel, off Devon, SW England: historic refuge for pirates and smugglers. 1.5 sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
- lusciously — highly pleasing to the taste or smell: luscious peaches.
- lustrously — In a lustrous manner, glossily.
- luteolysis — The structural and functional degradation of the corpus luteum, occurring at the end of the luteal phase of both the estrous and menstrual cycles in the absence of pregnancy.
- luxuriancy — Obsolete form of luxuriance.
- luxury tax — a tax on certain goods or services not considered essential and usually relatively high in price.
- lyam-hound — a bloodhound.
- lycopodium — any erect or creeping, mosslike, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium, as the club moss or ground pine.
- lycra lout — an aggressive urban cyclist who disregards the rules of the road
- lyme-hound — lyam-hound.
- lysigenous — caused by the breaking down of cells
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- manularity — /man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("manual" + "granularity") A notional measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to do a computing task by hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see toolsmith).
- mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
- mary tudor — Antony, 1909–87, English choreographer and dancer.
- maurolycus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 70 miles (110 km) in diameter.
- mbuji-mayi — a city in the S central Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- mcguffey's — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- measurably — capable of being measured.