8-letter words containing u, y
- millbury — a city in central Massachusetts.
- milyukov — Pavel Nikolaevich [pah-vuh l nik-uh-lah-yuh-vich;; Russian pah-vyil nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈpɑ vəl ˌnɪk əˈlɑ yə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈpɑ vyɪl nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1943, Russian statesman and historian.
- mind you — although, having said that
- minutely — occurring every minute.
- monobuoy — a floating platform anchored offshore in deep water and equipped with pipelines leading to storage tanks onshore, to which large, deep-draft tankers moor to load or unload.
- mortuary — funeral home.
- mouthily — in a mouthy or bombastic manner
- mucosity — The state of being mucous.
- muddying — Cause to become covered in or full of mud.
- mudpuppy — any of several often large, aquatic salamanders of the genus Necturus, of eastern North America, having bushy, red gills and well-developed limbs.
- mulberry — the edible, berrylike collective fruit of any tree of the genus Morus.
- mulierty — the state of being of legitimate birth.
- mulishly — In a mulish manner.
- mulloway — a large Australian saltwater fish, Sciaena antarctica. regarded as a culinary delicacy.
- mulroney — (Martin) Brian, born 1939, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1984–93.
- multeity — (rare) manifoldness; multiplicity; the quality of being many.
- multiday — lasting for more than one day
- multigym — A gym consisting of several items of weightlifting apparatus.
- multiply — to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
- munkacsy — Mihály von [mi-hahy fuh n] /ˈmɪ haɪ fən/ (Show IPA), (Michael Lieb) 1844–1900, Hungarian painter.
- musingly — absorbed in thought; meditative.
- musketry — Military. the technique of bringing fire from a group of rifle and automatic weapons to bear on specified targets.
- mustardy — Like mustard.
- mutatory — subject to change; variable
- mutually — possessed, experienced, performed, etc., by each of two or more with respect to the other; reciprocal: to have mutual respect.
- my aunt! — an exclamation of surprise or amazement
- mycelium — the mass of hyphae that form the vegetative part of a fungus.
- myoporum — any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Myoporum, chiefly of Australia and New Zealand, cultivated in warm regions as hedges or ornamentals.
- mystique — a framework of doctrines, ideas, beliefs, or the like, constructed around a person or object, endowing the person or object with enhanced value or profound meaning: the mystique of Poe.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- navy cut — tobacco finely cut from a block
- neurally — of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nonunity — Not of or pertaining to unity.
- nubility — (of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerary — of or relating to a number or numbers.
- nun buoy — a conical, unlighted buoy used as a channel marker, especially on the starboard side of a channel entering from seaward.
- nutmeggy — having the smell or the taste of nutmeg
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- obtusely — not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
- occultly — In an occult manner.
- odiously — deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- odysseus — king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War.
- of yours — belonging to or associated with you