8-letter words containing y, o, u
- gurgoyle — Alternative form of gargoyle.
- guy rope — A guy rope is a rope or wire that has one end fastened to a tent or pole and the other end fixed to the ground, so that it keeps the tent or pole in position.
- gypseous — of or relating to gypsum.
- hautboys — Plural form of hautboy.
- honeybun — A type of bun or pastry sweetened with honey.
- honeyful — full of honey
- houseboy — houseman (def 1).
- housefly — a medium-sized, gray-striped fly, Musca domestica, common around human habitations in nearly all parts of the world.
- huancayo — a city in central Peru, on the Mantaro River.
- hueytown — a town in central Alabama.
- hummocky — Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- illusory — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- isobutyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent hydrocarbon radical derived from isobutanol.
- jealousy — jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
- jocundly — In a jocund manner.
- journeys — Plural form of journey.
- joyfully — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
- joyously — joyful; happy; jubilant: the joyous sounds of children at play.
- juratory — pertaining to, constituting, or expressed in an oath.
- jury box — courtroom: area where jury sits
- kurveyor — a trader who transports goods by ox cart
- layabout — a lazy or idle person; loafer.
- liaoyuan — a city in SE Jilin province, in NE China.
- lifebuoy — A life preserver, especially one in the shape of a ring.
- locutory — locutorium.
- louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
- lygodium — (botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.
- mark you — You can say mark you to emphasize and draw attention to something you have just said.
- milyukov — Pavel Nikolaevich [pah-vuh l nik-uh-lah-yuh-vich;; Russian pah-vyil nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈpɑ vəl ˌnɪk əˈlɑ yə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈpɑ vyɪl nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1943, Russian statesman and historian.
- mind you — although, having said that
- monobuoy — a floating platform anchored offshore in deep water and equipped with pipelines leading to storage tanks onshore, to which large, deep-draft tankers moor to load or unload.
- mortuary — funeral home.
- mouthily — in a mouthy or bombastic manner
- mucosity — The state of being mucous.
- mulloway — a large Australian saltwater fish, Sciaena antarctica. regarded as a culinary delicacy.
- mulroney — (Martin) Brian, born 1939, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1984–93.
- mutatory — subject to change; variable
- myoporum — any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Myoporum, chiefly of Australia and New Zealand, cultivated in warm regions as hedges or ornamentals.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nonunity — Not of or pertaining to unity.
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- nun buoy — a conical, unlighted buoy used as a channel marker, especially on the starboard side of a channel entering from seaward.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- obtusely — not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
- occultly — In an occult manner.
- odiously — deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- odysseus — king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War.
- of yours — belonging to or associated with you