8-letter words containing u, y
- punditry — the opinions or methods of pundits.
- pungency — sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid.
- puppetry — the art of making puppets or presenting puppet shows.
- puppydom — the state of being a puppy
- puppyish — a young dog, especially one less than a year old.
- puppyism — impudence
- purparty — a share of an estate held by coparceners that is apportioned to one upon the division of the estate among them.
- purveyor — a person who purveys, provides, or supplies: a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
- puseyism — Tractarianism.
- pussycat — a cat; pussy.
- put away — 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.
- putumayo — a river in NW South America, flowing SE from S Colombia into the Amazon in NW Brazil. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- puyallup — a member of a Salishan-speaking North American Indian tribe living in the Puget Sound area of Washington.
- pygidium — any of various structures or regions at the caudal end of the body in certain invertebrates.
- pyrrhous — (of a person's complexion) ruddy or reddish
- pyruvate — an ester or salt of pyruvic acid.
- pyxidium — a seed vessel that opens transversely, the top part acting as a lid, as in the purslane.
- qingyuan — former name of Baoding.
- quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
- quagmiry — relating to a quagmire
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quakerly — like a Quaker.
- quandary — a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.
- quantify — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- quaylike — resembling a quay
- quayside — the area bordering and around a quay or quays.
- queasily — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- queerity — queerness or peculiarity
- querying — a question; an inquiry.
- quiddany — a type of quince jelly
- quiddity — the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing.
- quirkily — having or full of quirks.
- quixotry — A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
- quizzery — mockery; derision
- quizzify — to make into a joke, to mock
- quotably — in a quotable manner
- reinjury — an injury which follows a previous injury to the same place in the body
- reoccupy — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- repurify — to purify again, make pure again
- resupply — provide with sth
- resurvey — a new survey.
- rhubarby — similar to or tasting like rhubarb
- ritually — an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- robustly — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- rubaiyat — (in Persian poetry) a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas
- rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.
- ruby-red — of the deep red colour of a ruby
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office