10-letter words containing u, y
- measuredly — In a measured fashion.
- medium-dry — Medium-dry wine or sherry is not very sweet.
- mercifully — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- metallurgy — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- midcentury — Occurring around the center or middle of the century.
- mind (you) — You use mind you to emphasize a piece of information that you are adding, especially when the new information explains what you have said or contrasts with it. Some people use mind in a similar way.
- mirthfully — In a mirthful manner.
- misogynous — reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
- mittyesque — Walter Mitty.
- modularity — the use of individually distinct functional units, as in assembling an electronic or mechanical system.
- modulatory — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- molybdenum — a silver-white metallic element, used as an alloy with iron in making hard, high-speed cutting tools. Symbol: Mo; atomic weight: 95.94; atomic number: 42; specific gravity: 10.2.
- monaurally — In a monaural fashion.
- money fund — a money-market fund.
- monkey nut — a peanut.
- monogynous — Having only one pistil.
- mononymous — Having a single-word name.
- monoxylous — constructed from one whole piece of wood
- monozygous — developed from a single fertilized ovum, as identical twins.
- moon buggy — a vehicle used by astronauts for surface exploration on the Moon
- moribundly — In a moribund way.
- mosquitoey — Swarming with mosquitoes.
- moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
- mouldy fig — a rigid adherent to older jazz forms
- mount jaya — a mountain in E Indonesia, in Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) in the Sudirman Range: the highest mountain in New Guinea. Height: 5039 m (16 532 ft)
- mournfully — In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
- mourningly — In a mourning manner; grievingly.
- muliebrity — womanly nature or qualities.
- multi-year — a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- multicycle — a pedalled cycle with four or more wheels
- multilayer — multilayered.
- multiloquy — An excess of words or talk.
- multiparty — of or relating to more than two political parties.
- multiproxy — Involving multiple proxies.
- multistory — (of a building) having several or many stories.
- mumbly-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- mummifying — Present participle of mummify.
- mummy porn — sexually explicit or pornographic books, photos, videos, etc., that appeal to women, especially middle-aged women.
- mummy-porn — sexually explicit or pornographic books, photos, videos, etc., that appeal to women, especially middle-aged women.
- murphy bed — a bed constructed so that it can be folded or swung into a closet.
- murray cod — a large Australian freshwater fish, Maccullochella peeli, chiefly of the Murray and Darling rivers
- muscularly — In a muscular manner.
- mushy peas — dried peas that have been soaked, boiled and mashed - often eaten with fish and chips
- musicality — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- musicianly — In the manner of a musician.
- musicology — the scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, musical theory, or the physical nature of sound.
- mussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
- muster day — the annual day for enrollment in the militia of all able men aged 18 to 45, according to a law established in 1792 and in effect until after the Civil War.
- mutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- mutinously — disposed to, engaged in, or involving revolt against authority.