8-letter words containing u, y
- kentucky — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- key club — a private nightclub admitting only members and their guests, the members often being given door keys to the club.
- keyed up — tense, nervous
- keypunch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- kuan yin — a female Chinese Bodhisattva of compassion, regarded as the protector of women and children and patron of sailors
- kurveyor — a trader who transports goods by ox cart
- lacunary — Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of a lacuna.
- ladybugs — Plural form of ladybug.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- lathyrus — a genus of leguminous climbing plants that includes the sweet pea
- laudably — deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable: Reorganizing the files was a laudable idea.
- lawfully — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- layabout — a lazy or idle person; loafer.
- lazy guy — a rope or light tackle for keeping a boom from swinging.
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- lekythus — lekythos.
- liaoyuan — a city in SE Jilin province, in NE China.
- lifebuoy — A life preserver, especially one in the shape of a ring.
- lilyturf — liriope.
- liquidly — In a liquid way.
- locutory — locutorium.
- louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
- luanshya — a town in central Zambia.
- lubberly — of or resembling a lubber.
- lubyanka — a prison and secret-police headquarters in central Moscow.
- lucidity — the quality of being easily understood, completely intelligible, or comprehensible: She makes her argument with pointed logic and exemplary lucidity.
- lucky sb — You can use lucky in expressions such as 'Lucky you' and 'Lucky devil' when you are slightly jealous of someone else's good luck or success, or surprised at it.
- lumberly — heavy and unwieldy
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- lumpenly — in a lumpen manner
- lunately — in a lunate or crescent form
- luringly — in a luring or inviting manner
- lyallpur — a city in NE Pakistan.
- lycurgus — flourished 9th century b.c, Spartan lawgiver.
- lygodium — (botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.
- lysippus — flourished c360–c320 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- macaulay — Dame Rose, c1885–1958, English poet and novelist.
- manfully — having or showing boldness, courage, or strength; resolute.
- manually — done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands rather than by an electrical or electronic device: a manual gearshift.
- mark you — You can say mark you to emphasize and draw attention to something you have just said.
- marry up — to join
- maturely — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturity — the state of being mature; ripeness: The fruit will reach maturity in a few days.
- maudslay — Henry, 1771–1831, English mechanical engineer.
- maumetry — Archaic form of mammetry.
- mayaguez — a seaport in W Puerto Rico.
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- micrurgy — the manipulation and examination of single cells under a microscope