9-letter words containing u, y
- doughboys — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- doughtily — In a doughty manner.
- drunkenly — intoxicated; drunk.
- dry drunk — an alcoholic who is not currently drinking alcohol but is still following an irregular undisciplined lifestyle like that of a drunkard
- dry nurse — a nurse who cares for a child without suckling it
- dry-gulch — to ambush with the intent of killing or severely mauling: The riders were dry-gulched by bandits.
- dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.
- dryasdust — a dull, pedantic person
- drying up — When you do the drying up, you dry things such as plates, pans, knives, and cups after they have been washed.
- du bellay — Joachim [French zhaw-a-keem] /French ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), Bellay, Joachim du.
- dubiosity — dubiety.
- dubiously — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- dubitably — Defn en.
- dubitancy — doubt; uncertainty
- ductility — capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable.
- dullishly — in a slightly dull manner
- dulocracy — rule by slaves.
- dummy run — trial or practice
- dumpishly — in a downhearted and despondent manner
- duncishly — in a dullard-like manner
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- duodenary — duodecimal.
- duplexity — duplex apartment.
- duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
- dustywing — any of the rare, minute neuropterous insects of the family Coniopterygidae, characterized by a white, powdery body and wing cover, large eyes, long and slender antennae, and chewing mouthparts.
- duteously — In a duteous manner.
- dutifully — performing the duties expected or required of one; characterized by doing one's duty: a dutiful citizen; a dutiful child.
- duty call — a visit made for reasons of obligation rather than for social reasons
- duty paid — on which duty has been paid
- duty-free — Duty-free goods are sold at airports or on planes or ships at a cheaper price than usual because you do not have to pay import tax on them.
- dutybound — Compelled by duty.
- duvet day — a day of leave from work that an employee is allowed to take at short notice
- dyersburg — a city in W Tennessee.
- dyestuffs — Plural form of dyestuff.
- dysfluent — Without proper fluency; not fluent.
- dysgeusia — an impairment of the sense of taste.
- dysmature — Exhibiting dysmaturity.
- dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
- easefully — In an easeful way.
- educatory — educative.
- el faiyûm — a city in N Egypt: a site of towns going back at least to the 12th dynasty. Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- electuary — A medicinal substance mixed with honey or another sweet substance.
- elocutory — elocutionary
- eloquency — (nonstandard) Eloquence.
- elusively — In an elusive manner.
- empyreuma — the smell and taste associated with burning vegetable and animal matter
- emulously — In an emulous manner; ambitiously or competitively.
- emunctory — Pertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
- endurably — In an endurable or tolerable manner.
- ensuingly — In an ensuing manner; subsequently.