8-letter words containing u, y
- burberry — a light good-quality raincoat, esp of gabardine
- burghley — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520–98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572–98)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- burgundy — Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
- busy bee — a person who is industrious or has many things to do
- busybody — If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
- busyness — the quality or condition of being busy.
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- buy time — gain time (sense 2) (at , time)
- buy-back — A buy-back is a situation in which a company buys shares back from its investors.
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
- caducity — perishableness
- calycule — an epicalyx
- calyculi — Plural form of calyculus.
- camaguey — a city in E central Cuba. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- carryout — designating or of prepared food sold as by a restaurant to be eaten away from the premises
- casually — happening by chance; fortuitous: a casual meeting.
- casualty — A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.
- caudally — Anatomy, Zoology. of, at, or near the tail or the posterior end of the body.
- causally — of, constituting, or implying a cause.
- causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- chalukya — a dynasty of central India, ruling a.d. c500–753, and restored a.d. 973–1190.
- chauncey — a masculine name
- chemurgy — the branch of chemistry concerned with the industrial use of organic raw materials, esp materials of agricultural origin
- chirrupy — chirpy; cheerful.
- choultry — Alternative form of choltry.
- chubbily — in a chubby way or in the manner of someone who is chubby
- chummery — (India) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the w British Raj.
- chummily — friendly; intimate; sociable.
- chunkily — In a chunky way.
- chupatty — Alternative spelling of chapatti.
- churchly — appropriate to, associated with, or suggestive of church life and customs
- chutneys — Plural form of chutney.
- chyluria — the presence of chyle in urine
- circuity — (of speech, reasoning, etc) a roundabout or devious quality
- circussy — characteristic of a circus