9-letter words containing u, y
- blueberry — A blueberry is a small dark blue fruit that is found in North America. Blueberries are usually cooked before they are eaten.
- body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
- bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
- boundedly — having bounds or limits.
- bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
- boutiquey — having the characteristics of a boutique
- boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
- bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
- brimfully — in a brimfull manner
- brusquely — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
- brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- buckishly — in a buckish manner
- buckley's — no chance at all
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
- buckytube — a tube of carbon atoms structurally similar to buckminsterfullerene
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
- bull dyke — a lesbian who is markedly masculine
- bull-dyke — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian who is notably masculine or assertive in manner or appearance.
- bullishly — in a bullish manner
- bullwaddy — a N Australian tree, Macropteranthes kekwickii, growing in dense thickets
- bully-boy — If you describe a man as a bully-boy, you disapprove of him because he is rough and aggressive.
- bully-off — a method by which a game is restarted after a stoppage. Two opposing players stand with the ball between them and alternately strike their sticks together and against the ground three times before trying to hit the ball
- bullycide — the act or an instance of killing oneself intentionally as a result of bullying
- bumpkinly — like a bumpkin
- bumpology — phrenology
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- bunny hug — a ballroom dance with syncopated rhythm, popular in America in the early 20th century
- buoy boat — a boat used in whaling for holding and towing the whales killed during a hunt.
- buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- burleycue — burlesque (def 3).
- bush baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-loop — tight loop
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- butterfly — A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body.
- buttinsky — a busybody
- buzzingly — in a buzzing manner
- by nature — essentially or innately
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- by return — by the next post back to the sender
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- calculary — calculous
- callously — made hard; hardened.