12-letter words containing u, y
- black beauty — a Biphetamine capsule.
- blood supply — the flow of blood to different parts of the body
- blue succory — a composite garden plant, Catananche caerulea, of southern Europe, having very hairy leaves and blue flower heads, used by the ancients as a love potion.
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
- boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
- bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
- bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- brush turkey — any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
- buddy system — (in swimming and scuba diving) the practice of pairing swimmers, each being responsible for the other's safety.
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- bully pulpit — If someone in a prominent job or position publicly expresses their opinions about a particular subject, you can say that they are using their job or position as a bully pulpit.
- bumble-puppy — a game in which a ball, attached by string to a post, is hit so that the string winds round the post
- bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
- bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
- bunny rabbit — rabbit
- buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
- bus topology — bus
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- butyl rubber — a copolymer of isobutene and isoprene, used in tyres and as a waterproofing material
- butyric acid — type of acid
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- buying group — an association of companies who use their combined purchasing power to achieve the best prices from suppliers
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- buzzards bay — arm of the Atlantic, on the SE coast of Mass., at the base of Cape Cod peninsula
- by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
- calcareously — in a calcareous manner
- calculatedly — in a calculated manner
- call of duty — responsibilities
- calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- calumniously — in a calumnious manner
- calycoideous — calycoid
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- capriciously — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- carbamylurea — biuret.
- carry a tune — to be able to sing in tune
- cellulolytic — relating to or causing the hydrolysis of the complex carbohydrate cellulose