8-letter words containing u, y
- hummocky — Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
- hump day — Wednesday
- humphrey — (Duke of Gloucester) 1391–1447, English soldier and statesman (youngest son of Henry IV).
- huna bay — an inlet of the Greenland Sea on the NW coast of Iceland.
- hungerly — marked by a hungry look.
- hungrily — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- huntaway — a sheep dog.
- hurrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurray.
- hurry up — go faster
- hurry-up — characterized by speed or the need for speed; quick: a hurry-up meal; a hurry-up phone call.
- hurrying — to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
- hushedly — to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
- huxleyan — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- huysmans — Joris Karl [zhoh-rees kahrl] /ʒoʊˈris kɑrl/ (Show IPA), (Charles Marie Georges Huysmans) 1848–1907, French novelist.
- hymenium — the sporogenous layer in a fungus, composed of asci or basidia often interspersed with various sterile structures, as paraphyses.
- hymettus — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens. 3370 feet (1027 meters).
- hyped up — intensively or excessively stimulated or exaggerated: an economy hyped-up by arms spending.
- hyped-up — intensively or excessively stimulated or exaggerated: an economy hyped-up by arms spending.
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- icy blue — of a very pale blue colour
- illusory — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- ilyushin — Sergei Vladimirovich (sɛrˈɡɛi vladiˈmiːrovɪtʃ). 1894–1977, Soviet aircraft designer. He designed the dive bomber Il-2 Stormovik and the jet airliner Il-62
- immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
- impunity — exemption from punishment.
- impurely — In an impure manner.
- impurify — To make impure.
- impurity — the quality or state of being impure.
- industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- inequity — lack of equity; unfairness; favoritism or bias.
- iniquity — gross injustice or wickedness.
- irefully — In an ireful manner; angrily; wrathfully.
- isobutyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent hydrocarbon radical derived from isobutanol.
- jauntily — easy and sprightly in manner or bearing: to walk with a jaunty step.
- jayapura — the W part of the island of New Guinea, formerly a Dutch territory: a province of Indonesia since 1963. About 159,000 sq. mi. (411,810 sq. km). Capital: Jayapura.
- jealousy — jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
- jejunely — In a jejune manner.
- jejunity — without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
- jocundly — In a jocund manner.
- journeys — Plural form of journey.
- joyfully — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
- joyously — joyful; happy; jubilant: the joyous sounds of children at play.
- jugglery — the art or practice of a juggler, especially sleight of hand.
- junkyard — a yard for the collection, storage, and resale of junk.
- juratory — pertaining to, constituting, or expressed in an oath.
- jury box — courtroom: area where jury sits
- jury-rig — Nautical. a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc.
- juryless — Without a jury.
- jurymast — a temporary mast assembled to replace a broken one
- kaliyuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
- katyusha — Alternative case form of Katyusha.