9-letter words containing u, y
- gymnasium — a building or room designed and equipped for indoor sports, exercise, or physical education.
- gynaeceum — (among the ancient Greeks) the part of a dwelling used by women.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
- harmfully — In a harmful manner.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hatefully — In a hateful manner.
- haughtily — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- heavy mud — a dense substance made of a mixture of the mineral barite and water that is thickened with polymers
- heedfully — In a heedful manner.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- helpfully — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- hideously — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hinkypunk — (West Country) a will o' the wisp.
- hol-unity — A verification tool for UNITY? Version 2.1. E-mail: Flemming Andersen <[email protected]>?
- holy hour — an hour set aside for prayer and reflection
- homebuyer — a person who buys or expects to buy a house.
- honey bun — Also called sticky bun. a sweet spiral-shaped bun, usually with cinnamon, raisins, and nuts, coated with honey or butter and brown sugar.
- honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- houseboys — Plural form of houseboy.
- houyhnhnm — (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of horses endowed with reason, who rule the Yahoos, a race of degraded, brutish creatures having human form.
- huckstery — the business of a huckster
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- hugeously — hugely
- humorally — in a humoral manner or from a humoral point of view
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- hung jury — a jury that cannot agree on a verdict.
- hurriedly — moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- hurtfully — In a hurtful manner.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hushpuppy — a snack of deep-fried cornmeal bread
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hydropult — a type of water pump or machine that expels water by means of hand power, as, for example, a fire extinguisher
- hypercube — A geometric figure in four or more dimensions that is analogous to a cube in three dimensions.
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- hyperpure — extremely pure or completely uncontaminated
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hypogeous — underground; subterranean.
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- i ask you — If you say 'I ask you', you are emphasizing how much you disapprove of someone or something.
- illyricum — a Roman province in ancient Illyria.
- immutably — In an immutable manner. In a way that cannot be varied, or changed.
- impiously — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.