10-letter words containing u, y
- cozy up to — to try to ingratiate oneself, or make friends, with
- creaturely — creatural.
- cruciality — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- crucifying — Present participle of crucify.
- crushingly — You can use crushingly to emphasize the degree of a negative quality.
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- cubby-hole — A cubby-hole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- cubbyholes — Plural form of cubbyhole.
- cuckoo ray — a fish, Raja naevus
- cuddly toy — a soft toy, such as a teddy bear
- culdoscopy — Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina.
- culinarily — of, relating to, or used in cooking or the kitchen.
- culturally — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- cumbrously — In a cumbrous manner.
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curability — capable of being cured.
- curiousity — Misspelling of curiosity.
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curry leaf — a shrub or tree, Murraya koenigii, of India and Sri Lanka.
- curry puff — (in eastern cookery) a type of pie or pasty consisting of a pastry case containing curried meat and vegetables
- currycombs — Plural form of currycomb.
- curtseying — Present participle of curtsey.
- cutability — the portion of saleable lean meat on a carcass
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- cyberbully — someone who uses electronic communication to hurt, persecute or intimidate people
- cyberbunny — (abuse) Someone who knows absolutely nothing about computers and advises people who know absolutely nothing about computers. The term is used mostly on AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.
- cybergroup — A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- cycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
- cyclobutyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical derived from cyclobutane by the formal removal of a hydrogen atom.
- cygnus x-1 — a strong x-ray source in the constellation Cygnus, consisting of a binary system of which one component may be a black hole.
- cynomolgus — a macaque native to SE Asia
- cynopodous — (of some mammals, such as dogs) having claws that do not retract
- cypherpunk — A person who uses encryption when accessing a computer network in order to ensure privacy, especially from government authorities.
- cystinuria — a condition in which excessive levels of cystine are present in the urine
- cytococcus — (biology) The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- daisy bush — any of various shrubs of the genus Olearia, of Australia and New Zealand, with daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- daunomycin — an anthracycline drug that is used as a medication in the treatment of some forms of cancer
- dauntingly — In a daunting manner.
- day return — A day return is a train or bus ticket which allows you to go somewhere and come back on the same day for a lower price than an ordinary return ticket.
- de quincey — Thomas. 1785–1859, English critic and essayist, noted particularly for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)
- death duty — a tax on property inheritances: in Britain, replaced in 1975 by capital transfer tax and since 1986 by inheritance tax
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- decorously — characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
- decoy duck — a duck, or an image of one, used to lure other ducks into a trap or within shooting range
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- decurrency — the action of flowing downwards