7-letter words containing u, y
- playful — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- plumery — a collection of plumes
- polybus — a Corinthian king who was the foster father of Oedipus.
- pony up — a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- pouilly — a village in central France: known for its wines.
- poultry — domesticated fowl collectively, especially those valued for their meat and eggs, as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl.
- pre-buy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- preyful — predatory
- proudly — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- prudery — excessive propriety or modesty in speech, conduct, etc.
- puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- puckery — puckered.
- pudency — modesty; bashfulness; shamefacedness.
- puffery — undue or exaggerated praise.
- pulpify — to reduce to pulp
- pursily — in a pursy manner
- pussley — purslane
- pussy's — Informal. a cat, especially a kitten.
- putrefy — to render putrid; cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor.
- pycnium — a flask-shaped or conical sporangium of a rust fungus, which develops below the epidermis of the host and bears pycniospores.
- pylorus — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pyrrhus — c318–272 b.c, king of Epirus c300–272.
- pyruvic — of or derived from pyruvic acid.
- pythium — a genus of parasitic oomycotes, most of which are plant parasites
- qu yuan — Ch'ü Yüan.
- qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- quality — an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
- quandry — Misspelling of quandary.
- quartzy — resembling quartz
- quavery — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quayage — quays collectively.
- queachy — unwell
- queenly — belonging or proper to a queen: queenly propriety.
- queerly — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- quesnay — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1694–1774, French economist and physician.
- quickly — with speed; rapidly; very soon.
- quietly — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quinary — pertaining to or consisting of five.
- quivery — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- raunchy — vulgar or smutty; crude; earthy; obscene: a raunchy joke.
- ray gun — a gun that can fire bursts of usually destructive or lethal rays: a science fiction novel whose hero has a ray gun made of gold.
- rayburn — Sam, 1882–1961, U.S. lawyer and political leader: Speaker of the House 1940–47, 1949–53, 1955–61.
- restudy — to study again
- reunify — bring together again
- reynaud — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1878–1966, French statesman: premier 1940.
- roguery — roguish conduct; rascality.
- roughly — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roundly — in a round manner.
- roupily — in a roupy manner
- rubbery — like rubber; elastic; tough.