7-letter words containing u, y
- hautboy — oboe1 (def 1).
- heyduck — one of a class of mercenary soldiers in 16th-century Hungary.
- hiccupy — having hiccups
- houndly — Of, like, or characteristic of hounds or dogs; doglike; dogly; canine.
- houssay — Bernardo Alberto [ber-nahr-th aw ahl-ver-taw] /bɛrˈnɑr ðɔ ɑlˈvɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Argentine physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- huckery — ugly
- huffily — easily offended; touchy.
- humanly — in a human manner.
- humayun — 1508–56, Mogul emperor of Hindustan 1530–56 (son of Baber).
- humidly — In a humid manner.
- humpday — Alternative spelling of hump day.
- hungary — a republic in central Europe. 35,926 sq. mi. (93,050 sq. km). Capital: Budapest.
- hunyadi — János [yah-nawsh] /ˈyɑ nɔʃ/ (Show IPA), 1387?–1456, Hungarian soldier and national hero.
- hurleys — Plural form of hurley.
- hurrays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hurray.
- hurryed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurry; archaic spelling of hurried.
- hushaby — Used to calm a child.
- huskily — big and strong; burly.
- huygens — Christian [kris-chuh n;; Dutch kris-tee-ahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Dutch ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn/ (Show IPA), 1629–95, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
- hydrous — containing water.
- hyginus — Saint, died a.d. 140, pope 136–140.
- hype up — to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
- hypural — relating to the bones of the area below the tail of fish
- ialysus — an ancient Mycenaean city on the island of Rhodes.
- inquiry — a seeking or request for truth, information, or knowledge.
- ischury — (medicine) A retention or suppression of urine.
- iyeyasu — Tokugawa [taw-koo-gah-wah] /ˈtɔ kuˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.
- january — the first month of the year, containing 31 days. Abbreviation: Jan.
- journey — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- joyfull — Obsolete form of joyful.
- juddery — shaky
- juicily — In a juicy manner.
- jumpily — Nervously, or restlessly.
- jurying — Present participle of jury.
- juryman — a juror.
- jurymen — Plural form of juryman.
- justify — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- kautsky — Karl Johann [kahrl yoh-hahn] /ˈkɑrl ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1854–1938, German socialist writer and editor.
- kludgey — Alternative form of kludgy.
- knubbly — full of small protuberances.
- kouprey — a wild ox, Bibos (Novibos) sauveli, of Laos and Cambodia, having a blackish-brown body with white markings on the back and feet: an endangered species.
- koyukon — a member of a North American Indian people living in the Yukon River valley in west-central Alaska.
- kufiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- kumayri — a city in NW Armenia.
- kumayry — city in NW Armenia: pop. 120,000
- kumbaya — The title of the etymological folk song, used with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm to refer to the song's evocations of spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony.
- kutenay — a member of a North American Indian people of British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho.
- lacquey — a servile follower; toady.
- ladybug — any of numerous small, round, often brightly colored and spotted beetles of the family Coccinellidae, feeding chiefly on aphids and other small insects, but including several forms that feed on plants.
- laundry — articles of clothing, linens, etc., that have been or are to be washed.