9-letter words containing u, y
- cultishly — In a cultish manner.
- cunningly — skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
- curiously — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
- curly-cue — an ornamental, fancy curl or twist, as in a signature.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
- currishly — In a currish manner; like a cur or knave.
- currycomb — a square comb consisting of rows of small teeth, used for grooming horses
- cursively — In a cursive manner.
- cursorily — going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a newspaper article.
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- curtsying — Present participle of curtsey.
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cutcherry — (formerly, in India) government offices and law courts collectively
- cuttingly — In a cutting manner.
- cuttyhunk — a twisted, linen fishline, especially one laid by hand.
- cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybercrud — (jargon) /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail. First there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyberpunk — Cyberpunk is a type of science fiction.
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- cymbidium — a genus, Cymbidium, of subtropical and tropical orchids native to Australia and Asia, having boat-shaped showy flowers
- cynosures — Plural form of cynosure.
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- dandruffy — Dandrufflike.
- dandyfunk — a type of dessert typically eaten at sea, consisting of a cake or biscuit baked in fat and molasses
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- day pupil — a pupil at a boarding school who attends lessons during the day but does not sleep at the school
- deducibly — in a deducible or conjecturable manner
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- deviously — departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect: a devious course.
- diffusely — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
- dionysius — ("the Elder") 431?–367 b.c, Greek soldier: tyrant of Syracuse 405–367.
- direfully — In a direful manner.
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- dispurvey — to strip of equipment or provisions
- diurnally — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- dolefully — sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face.
- dolly tub — an apparatus for agitating and washing ore in a vessel
- doomfully — in a doomful manner
- doubleday — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- doubtably — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.