12-letter words containing u, y
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- currency bar — a long narrow iron bar, often sword-like or spear-like in shape, dating from the pre-Roman and Roman period in Britain; the purpose of currency bars is not certain, and while they may have been used in trade, they may have had a ritual significance
- curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
- curry powder — Curry powder is a powder made from a mixture of spices. It is used in cooking, especially when making curry.
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- customs duty — a tax payable to customs when importing or exporting goods
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- cyberculture — a unique set of habits, values, and other elements of culture that have evolved from the use of computers and the Internet.
- cybersurfers — Plural form of cybersurfer.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- cycle crunch — (jargon) A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to time-sharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier since the mid-1980s, so much so that the very term "cycle crunch" now has a faintly archaic flavour; most hackers now use workstations or personal computers as opposed to traditional time-sharing systems.
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- cyclostomous — of or relating to a cyclostome
- cymotrichous — having wavy hair
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- delinquently — failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diddly-squat — anything
- diminutively — In a diminutive manner.
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- discommunity — a lack of community
- discongruity — incongruity.
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- disdainfully — full of or showing disdain; scornful.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disgustfully — in a disgustful manner
- disgustingly — causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
- dispiteously — in a manner that lacks pity
- disquisitory — of or relating to disquisition