6-letter words containing u, y
- tyumen — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
- uberty — abundance; fruitfulness
- ubiety — the property of having a definite location at any given time; state of existing and being localized in space.
- uglify — to make ugly.
- uglily — very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- umbery — resembling umber in colour
- unbury — to dig up (that which was buried); unearth
- unbusy — not busy; idle; unoccupied
- unduly — excessively: unduly worried.
- undyed — not dyed, tinted, or coloured; having natural colour
- uneasy — not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.
- uneyed — unseen
- ungyve — to release from shackles
- unholy — not holy; not sacred or hallowed.
- unmiry — not boggy, marshy, or dirty
- unpray — to withdraw or rescind (a prayer)
- unruly — not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness.
- unsexy — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
- untidy — not tidy or neat; slovenly; disordered: an untidy room; an untidy person.
- unwary — not wary; not cautious or watchful, as against danger or misfortune.
- unyoke — to free from or as if from a yoke.
- upbray — to upbraid
- uppity — affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish.
- upstay — to support or sustain
- upsway — to swing upwards in the air
- uranyl — the bivalent ion UO 2 +2 , or the group UO 2 , which forms salts with acids.
- usolye — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, opposite Berezniki on the Kama River.
- vaulty — having the appearance or characteristics of a vault; arching: the vaulty rows of elm trees.
- vaunty — boastful; vain.
- vilyui — a river in E Siberian Russia, flowing E to the Lena River. 1520 miles (2446 km) long.
- voguey — relating to someone who aspires to be fashionable
- voyeur — a person who engages in voyeurism.
- woundy — (archaic) very, extremely, excessively.
- wurley — an Aborigine's shelter, made of branches and leaves.
- xystus — (in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium.
- yakuza — any of various tightly knit Japanese criminal organizations having a ritualistic, strict code of honor.
- yamuna — a river in N India, flowing SE from the Himalayas to the Ganges at Allahabad. 860 miles (1385 meters) long.
- yangqu — former name of Taiyuan.
- yanqui — (in Latin America) Yankee; a citizen of the U.S.
- yaourt — a fermented Turkish drink made from milk
- yarmuk — a river in NW Jordan, flowing W into the Jordan River. 50 miles (80 km) long.
- yaunde — Yaoundé.
- yauped — to utter a loud, harsh cry; to yelp, squawk, or bawl.
- yauper — yawp.
- yaupon — a holly shrub or small tree, Ilex vomitoria, of the southern U.S., having bitter leaves that are sometimes brewed as a tea.
- yautia — a stemless plant, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical America for its tuberous, starchy root, cooked and eaten like potatoes.
- ynambu — a medium-sized S American bird, Rhynchotus rufescens
- yogurt — a prepared food having the consistency of custard, made from milk curdled by the action of cultures, sometimes sweetened or flavored.
- yokuts — a member of a North American Indian group of small tribes speaking related dialects and occupying the San Joaquin Valley of California and the adjoining eastern foothill regions. Nearly all the Valley Yokuts are extinct; some foothill groups remain.
- yoruba — a member of a numerous West African coastal people.