12-letter words containing u, y
- injury-prone — often sustaining injuries
- inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- insolubility — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- insouciantly — free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- intercountry — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- intramurally — In an intramural manner.
- intriguingly — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- introductory — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- ipecac syrup — a preparation containing ipecac in a syrupy medium, used as an emetic.
- iron foundry — ironworks, forgery
- irregularity — the quality or state of being irregular.
- irresolutely — In an irresolute or wavering manner.
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- jelly fungus — any of various fungi of the order Tremellales, distinguished by gelatinous basidiocarp.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- jiaozhou bay — an inlet of the Yellow Sea in NE China, in SE Shandong province
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- john mauchly — (person) /jon W mok'*-lee/ (rhymes with "broccoli") Dr. John W. Mauchly, one of the developers of ENIAC.
- johnny house — Johnny (def 3).
- jolly jumper — any light sail set above a skysail; flying kite.
- journey time — the time taken to make a journey
- journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
- jubilee year — jubilee (def 5a).
- judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
- judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- jungle bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- jungle-bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
- juristically — of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
- jury process — the writ used to summon jurors
- jury-packing — the practice of contriving that the majority of those chosen for a jury will be persons likely to have partialities affecting a particular case.
- jury-rigging — the act of setting something up in a makeshift manner, usually as a result of the loss of regular gear
- just quietly — between you and me; confidentially
- justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- k'ang yu-wei — 1858–1927, Chinese scholar and reformer.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- kikuyu grass — a type of fast-growing tropical grass, Pennisetum clandestinum, native to E Africa
- koussevitzky — Serge [sairzh] /sɛərʒ/ (Show IPA), (Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitsky) 1874–1951, Russian orchestra conductor in the U.S.
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.