7-letter words containing u, y
- bullary — a place where salt is prepared or boiled
- bum boy — a person who assumes the passive role in anal intercourse
- bunbury — to create a fictitious scenario that provides an excuse for avoiding unwanted engagements
- buoyage — a system of buoys
- buoyant — If you are in a buoyant mood, you feel cheerful and behave in a lively way.
- buoying — Nautical. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc., or to provide a mooring place away from the shore.
- burlily — in burly fashion
- burnaby — city in SW British Columbia, Canada; suburb of Vancouver: pop. 179,000
- burnley — an industrial town in NW England, in E Lancashire. Pop: 73 021 (2001)
- bursary — A bursary is a sum of money which is given to someone to allow them to study in a college or university.
- bus boy — A bus boy is someone whose job is to set or clear tables in a restaurant.
- bushfly — any of various small black dipterous flies of Australia, esp Musca vetustissima, that breed in faeces and dung: family Calliphoridae
- busying — actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- butlery — a butler's room
- buttery — Buttery food contains butter or is covered with butter.
- buttony — like a button.
- butyral — a type of resin
- butyric — of or obtained from butter
- butyrin — a colourless liquid ester or oil found in butter. It is formed from butyric acid and glycerine
- butyryl — a radical of butyric acid
- buy off — If you say that a person or organization buys off another person or group, you are criticizing the fact that they are giving them something such as money so that they will not complain or cause trouble.
- buy out — If you buy someone out, you buy their share of something such as a company or piece of property that you previously owned together.
- buy-out — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- buyable — available to be bought
- buyback — an agreement to buy something in return, as by a supplier to buy its customer's product
- buycott — a type of protest aimed at a company or country with dubious ethical standards in which consumers buy the products of another company or country
- by gum! — by God!
- byrgius — a crater in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 40 miles (64 km) in diameter.
- cadbury — George. 1839–1922, British Quaker industrialist and philanthropist. He established, with his brother Richard Cadbury (1835–99), the chocolate-making company Cadbury Brothers and the garden village Bournville, near Birmingham, for their workers
- calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
- cautery — the coagulation of blood or destruction of body tissue by cauterizing
- cauvery — a river in S India, rising in the Western Ghats and flowing southeast to the Bay of Bengal. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- cayuses — Plural form of cayuse.
- century — A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.
- chanoyu — a Japanese ceremony at which tea is prepared, served, and taken with an ancient and involved ritual.
- chunkey — A sport or game played by the Cherokee and other Native Americans in the Carolinas, which involved rolling stone disks across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to place the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible.
- churchy — like a church, church service, etc
- chutney — Chutney is a cold sauce made from fruit, vinegar, sugar, and spices. It is sold in jars and you eat it with meat or cheese.
- chylous — (physiology) Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.
- circusy — Reminiscent of a circus.
- citrusy — having the flavor or smell of lemons, limes, or oranges; tangy, tart, etc.
- cliquey — If you describe a group of people or their behaviour as cliquey, you mean they spend their time only with other members of the group and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
- clutchy — (of a person) tending to cling
- clypeus — a cuticular plate on the head of some insects between the labrum and the frons
- clytius — (in the Iliad) a brother of Priam killed by Hercules.
- cocytus — the river of wailing, a tributary of the Acheron in Hades
- coloury — possessing colour
- conjury — magic
- corylus — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Corylus of the Betulaceae family (or the Corylaceae family, depending on the botanist), which bear nuts and are found in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere
- cosy up — to seek to become intimate or to ingratiate oneself (with someone)