10-letter words containing u, y
- body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bonus baby — an athlete who is paid a substantial bonus to sign his or her first professional contract.
- booty bump — a method of administering the recreational drug methamphetamine, in which the drug is mixed with water then injected into the rectum with a needleless syringe
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
- brachyuran — any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs
- bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
- buddh gaya — a town in NE India, in Bihar: site of the sacred bo tree under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha; pilgrimage centre. Pop: 30 883 (2001)
- buddhology — the study of Buddha and of Buddhahood.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
- buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
- buggy whip — horsewhip
- bull's-eye — The bull's-eye is the small circular area at the centre of a target.
- bully beef — tinned corned beef
- bully tree — any of several tropical American trees of the sapodilla family that yield balata
- bumblingly — in a bumbling manner
- bumpy ride — experience: difficult
- bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
- bunglingly — in a bungling manner
- bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry
- bunny girl — a night-club hostess whose costume includes a rabbit-like tail and ears
- bunny hill — a nursery slope
- bush poppy — tree poppy.
- bustlingly — in a bustling manner
- butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
- buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- by request — in accordance with someone's desire
- by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- calyculate — having a calycule
- candy pull — a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- canorously — In a canorous manner.
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- case study — A case study is a written account that gives detailed information about a person, group, or thing and their development over a period of time.
- cauliflory — the production of flowers on the trunk, branches, etc, of a woody plant, as opposed to the ends of the twigs
- causticity — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- cecutiency — the state of or tendency to full or partial blindness