11-letter words containing u, y
- dissolutely — In a dissolute manner.
- disunifying — Present participle of disunify.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- diytterbium — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two ytterbium atoms in a molecule.
- do duty for — to act as a substitute for
- do your bit — contribute
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- douay bible — an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.
- double demy — a size of printing paper, 22½ × 35 inches (57 × 89 cm).
- double duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
- double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
- double-duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
- double-dyed — confirmed; inveterate
- doubtlessly — without doubt; certainly; surely; unquestionably.
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- dry as dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- dry measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring dry commodities, as grain or fruit. In the U.S. 2 pints = 1 quart (1.101 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (8.810 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (35.24 liters). In Great Britain 2 pints = 1 quart (1.136 liters); 4 quarts = 1 gallon (4.546 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (9.092 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (36.37 liters); 8 bushels = 1 quarter (291.0 liters).
- dry-as-dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- duck typing — (programming) A term coined by Dave Thomas for a kind of dynamic typing typical of some programming languages, such as Smalltalk, Ruby or Visual FoxPro, where a variable's run-time value determines the operations that can be performed on it. The term comes from the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Duck typing considers the methods to which a value responds and the attributes it posesses rather than its relationship to a type hierarchy. This encourages greater polymorphism because types are enforced as late as possible.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dummy block — a freely moving cylinder for transmitting the pressure of a ram to a piece being extruded.
- dummy joint — a slot cut into a concrete slab to prevent serious fractures.
- dumpy level — an instrument consisting of a spirit level mounted under and parallel to a telescope, the latter being rigidly attached to its supports.
- dusky shark — a blue-gray shark, Carcharinus obscurus, of warm Atlantic and eastern Pacific seas, reaching a length of 12 feet (3.7 meters).
- dyscalculia — Severe difficulty in making arithmetical calculations, as a result of brain disorder.
- dysfunction — Medicine/Medical. malfunctioning, as of an organ or structure of the body.
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- dysregulate — (biology) To cause a dysfunctional level of an activity or chemical in an organism by disrupting normal function of a regulatory mechanism.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- easy virtue — loose morals; sexual promiscuity
- ebulliently — overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
- ecumenicity — (in the Christian church) the state of being ecumenically united, especially in furthering the aims of the ecumenical movement.
- educability — capable of being educated.
- effectually — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- effortfully — In an effortful manner: with effort.
- egregiously — Conspicuously badly (used negatively).
- ejaculatory — Of or pertaining to ejaculation.
- elucidatory — Serving to elucidate.
- emphyteusis — a continual right in a property that belongs to another
- emphyteutic — pertaining to emphyteusis
- emulatively — So as to emulate.
- emulsifying — Present participle of emulsify.
- endochylous — having water-storing cells
- enquiringly — Alternative spelling of inquiringly.
- epiphyllous — (of plants) growing on, or attached to, the leaf of another plant
- eponymously — In an eponymous manner; as in the named character of a book etc.
- equilibrity — the state of being in equilibrium
- equipotency — The condition of being equipotent.
- equity card — a card proving membership of an actors' trade union