10-letter words containing y, o, u
- womanfully — in a manner full of womanly spirit: She struggled womanfully to complete the task.
- wondrously — wonderful; remarkable.
- wood pussy — a skunk.
- wood-pussy — a skunk.
- woollybutt — any of several Australian trees of the genus Eucalyptus, especially E. longifolia, having rough, often fibrous bark.
- work-study — an examination of ways of finding the most efficient method of doing a job, esp in terms of time and effort
- woundingly — In a way that wounds.
- wrongfully — unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
- wrongously — in an unjust or unfair manner
- xylogenous — living in or on wood
- xylotomous — That bores or cuts into wood, as with certain insects.
- yarborough — a hand in which no card is higher than a nine.
- year-round — continuing, active, operating, etc., throughout the year: a year-round vacation spot.
- yellow gum — any of several Australian eucalyptuses, as Eucalyptus melliodora, having yellowish bark.
- yom kippur — a Jewish high holy day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tishri by abstinence from food and drink and by the daylong recitation of prayers of repentance in the synagogue.
- yorubaland — a former kingdom in W Africa, in the E part of the Slave Coast: now a region in SW Nigeria.
- yottajoule — Lbl physics One septillion (1024) joules.
- you'll see — You can say 'You'll see' to someone if they do not agree with you about what you think will happen in the future, and you believe that you will be proved right.
- young lady — a young, usually unmarried woman of refinement, grace, etc.
- young plan — a plan reducing the reparations provided by the Dawes plan, devised by an international committee headed by Owen D. Young and put into effect in 1929.
- young turk — a member of a Turkish reformist and nationalist party that was founded in the latter part of the 19th century and was the dominant political party in Turkey in the period 1908–18.
- young-eyed — clear-eyed; bright-eyed.
- youngberry — a blackberry that is a cultivated variety of Rubus ursinus of the southwestern U.S.
- youngblood — youthful, vigorous, and fresh in ideas or practices: an aging company badly in need of youngblood management.
- younglings — Plural form of youngling.
- youngsters — Plural form of youngster.
- youngstown — a city in NE Ohio.
- your-grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- yourselves — You (used as the object of a verb or preposition, referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned).
- youth club — A youth club is a club where young people can go to meet each other and take part in various leisure activities. Youth clubs are often run by a church or local authority.
- youth-isle — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
- youthening — to make youthful; to restore youth to (someone or something).
- youthfully — In a youthful manner.
- youthquake — (informal) A noticeable shift in society or culture in response to the activities or tastes of younger members of the culture.
- yucca moth — any of several white moths of the genus Tegeticula that pollinate the yucca plant, the larvae of which develop in the ovary of the plant, consuming some of the seeds.
- yugoslavia — formerly, a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro; disbanded into independent countries in 2006. 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- yukon gold — a variety of yellow-fleshed potato developed in Canada
- yukon time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- zygocactus — Any cactus in the genus Schlumbergera (previously Zygocactus).