6-letter words containing u, y
- plucky — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- pluffy — puffy or fluffy
- plummy — containing or resembling plums.
- plumpy — plump
- plunky — twanging
- plushy — of, relating to, or resembling plush.
- pouchy — possessing or resembling a pouch: pouchy folds under the eyes.
- pouffy — a high headdress with the hair rolled in puffs, worn by women in the late 18th century.
- prebuy — of or pertaining to the advance purchase of a product or service
- puddly — having puddles
- pudsey — a town in N England, in Leeds unitary authority, West Yorkshire. Pop: 32 391 (2001)
- pulley — a wheel, with a grooved rim for carrying a line, that turns in a frame or block and serves to change the direction of or to transmit force, as when one end of the line is pulled to raise a weight at the other end: one of the simple machines.
- punchy — punch-drunk.
- punkey — a biting midge of the family Ceratopogonidae
- purely — entirely; completely.
- purfly — stout
- purify — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purity — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
- purvey — to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service.
- put by — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pyuria — the presence of pus in the urine.
- quacky — sounding like a quack
- quaggy — of the nature of or resembling a quagmire; marshy; boggy.
- qualmy — Queasy; nauseous.
- quarry — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quayle — James Danforth ("Dan") born 1947, vice president of the U.S. 1989–93.
- quazzy — unwell
- qubyte — a quantum byte, or eight quantum bits, a sequence processed as a unit.
- queasy — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- queazy — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- queeny — (slang) Like a queen; effeminately homosexual.
- quemoy — an island off the SE coast of China, in the Taiwan Strait: controlled by Taiwan. 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- querry — Obsolete form of equerry.
- queys' — a heifer.
- quicky — Alternative spelling of quickie.
- quilty — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a quilt.
- quincy — Josiah, 1744–75, American patriot and writer.
- quinsy — a suppurative inflammation of the tonsils; suppurative tonsillitis; tonsillar abscess.
- quippy — Joky; inclined to or characterised by quipping.
- quirky — having or full of quirks.
- quitly — (obsolete) quite (used by Geoffrey Chaucer).
- quizzy — Odd; eccentric.
- raguly — having tooth-like or stub-like projections
- rebury — to bury (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- rheumy — pertaining to, causing, full of, or affected with rheum.
- roughy — a small marine fish, Arripis georgianus, of New Zealand and Australia.
- rubbly — made or consisting of rubble.
- rubefy — to make red, esp (of a counterirritant) to make the skin go red
- rubify — to make red; redden: a distant fire that rubified the sky.
- rudely — discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.