9-letter words containing u, y
- imputably — In an imputable manner; by imputation.
- in a fury — very angry
- inaudibly — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurvity — the quality of having inward curvature
- inducibly — In an inducible manner.
- inequally — In an inequal manner.
- ingenuity — the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness: a designer of great ingenuity.
- inhumanly — lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, compassion, or the like; cruel; brutal: an inhuman master.
- innocuity — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- insolubly — In an insoluble manner; irresolubly, irresolvably.
- insularly — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- insulsity — stupidity
- inutility — uselessness.
- issyk-kul — a mountain lake in NE Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan). 2250 sq. mi. (5830 sq. km).
- itinually — (Rastafari) continually; perpetually; always.
- ivory nut — the seed of a low, South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, yielding vegetable ivory.
- jealously — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- jequirity — the rosary pea, Abrus precatorius, of the legume family.
- jocularly — given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars.
- jocundity — the state or an instance of being jocund; gaiety.
- join duty — to report for work after a period of leave or a strike
- journeyed — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- journeyer — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
- judgingly — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- juneberry — the American serviceberry, Amelanchier canadensis.
- junglegym — climbing frame for children
- juniority — the state or fact of being junior in age, rank, standing, etc.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- jury duty — service on a court jury
- jury room — a private room, adjacent to a courtroom, where a trial jury discusses a case and reaches its verdict.
- jurywoman — a female juror.
- jurywomen — Plural form of jurywoman.
- juttingly — in a protruding or jutting manner
- kali yuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
- katyushas — Plural form of katyusha.
- key fruit — a samara.
- key punch — 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.
- keybutton — an object on a keyboard which, when pressed, causes the letter, number, or symbol shown on it to be printed in a document
- krupskaya — Nadezhda Konstantinovna [nuh-dye-zhduh kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh v-nuh] /nʌˈdyɛ ʒdə kən stʌnˈtyi nəv nə/ (Show IPA), 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.
- kuibyshev — a port in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
- kulebyaka — coulibiac.
- kuniyoshi — Yasuo [yah-soo-aw] /yɑˈsu ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1953, U.S. painter, born in Japan.
- kyzyl kum — a desert in S Asia, SE of the Aral Sea, in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. About 90,000 sq. mi. (233,100 sq. km).
- lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- languidly — lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow: a languid manner.
- laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.