5-letter words containing u, y
- updry — to dry up, to completely dry
- uplay — to stash or hoard
- usury — the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest.
- vuggy — a small cavity in a rock or vein, often lined with crystals.
- vutty — dirty
- wagyu — Any of several Japanese breeds of cattle genetically predisposed to intense marbling and to producing a high percentage of oleaginous unsaturated fat.
- wussy — a weakling; wimp.
- yakut — a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.
- yaqui — a member of an American Indian people of Sonora, Mexico.
- yauco — a city in SW Puerto Rico.
- yauld — active; vigorous.
- yeugh — Obsolete spelling of yew.
- yeuky — itchy
- you'd — You'd is the usual spoken form of 'you had', especially when 'had' is an auxiliary verb.
- young — being in the first or early stage of life or growth; youthful; not old: a young woman.
- youre — (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of you're.
- yourn — (obsolete, or, dialectal) yours.
- yours — to address as “thou.”.
- youse — You (usually more than one person).
- youth — the condition of being young.
- yquem — Château d', a sweet white wine from the estate of Château d'Yquem in the Sauternes region of France.
- yucca — any plant belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, native to the warmer regions of America, having pointed, usually rigid, sword-shaped leaves and clusters of white, waxy flowers: the state flower of New Mexico.
- yuchy — yucky.
- yucko — disgusting; unpleasant
- yucky — thoroughly unappetizing, disgusting, or repugnant.
- yugas — Plural form of yuga.
- yugo. — (the former) Yugoslavia
- yukky — yucky.
- yukon — a river flowing NW and then SW from NW Canada through Alaska to the Bering Sea. About 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- yulan — a magnolia tree, Magnolia heptapeta, native to China, having large, fragrant white flowers and cylindrical brownish fruit.
- yuman — a family of languages including the language shared by the Yuma and Mohave Indians and several other languages of the lower valley of the Colorado River.
- yummo — tasty; delicious
- yummy — very pleasing to the senses, especially to the taste; delicious: The waiter brought out a tray of yummy desserts.
- yumpy — Yumpie.
- yunus — Muhammad. born 1940. Bangladeshi economist and social entrepreneur; pioneer of micro-credit; Nobel Peace Prize (2006)
- yupik — a member of any of three groups of Eskimos inhabiting western coastal Alaska from Prince William Sound north to Norton Sound, and St. Lawrence Island and the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula of Siberia.
- yuppy — yuppie.
- yurak — Nenets.
- yurev — Russian name of Tartu.
- yurts — Plural form of yurt.
- yuzus — Plural form of yuzu.