8-letter words containing y, u, e
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- icy blue — of a very pale blue colour
- impurely — In an impure manner.
- inequity — lack of equity; unfairness; favoritism or bias.
- irefully — In an ireful manner; angrily; wrathfully.
- jealousy — jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
- jejunely — In a jejune manner.
- jejunity — without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
- journeys — Plural form of journey.
- jugglery — the art or practice of a juggler, especially sleight of hand.
- juryless — Without a jury.
- kentucky — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- key club — a private nightclub admitting only members and their guests, the members often being given door keys to the club.
- keyed up — tense, nervous
- keypunch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- kurveyor — a trader who transports goods by ox cart
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- lekythus — lekythos.
- lifebuoy — A life preserver, especially one in the shape of a ring.
- louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
- lubberly — of or resembling a lubber.
- lumberly — heavy and unwieldy
- lumpenly — in a lumpen manner
- lunately — in a lunate or crescent form
- maturely — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maumetry — Archaic form of mammetry.
- mayaguez — a seaport in W Puerto Rico.
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- minutely — occurring every minute.
- mulberry — the edible, berrylike collective fruit of any tree of the genus Morus.
- mulierty — the state of being of legitimate birth.
- mulroney — (Martin) Brian, born 1939, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1984–93.
- multeity — (rare) manifoldness; multiplicity; the quality of being many.
- musketry — Military. the technique of bringing fire from a group of rifle and automatic weapons to bear on specified targets.
- mycelium — the mass of hyphae that form the vegetative part of a fungus.
- mystique — a framework of doctrines, ideas, beliefs, or the like, constructed around a person or object, endowing the person or object with enhanced value or profound meaning: the mystique of Poe.
- neurally — of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerary — of or relating to a number or numbers.
- nutmeggy — having the smell or the taste of nutmeg
- obtusely — not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
- 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.
- opaquely — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- out-year — the fiscal year after a year covered by a budget; any year beyond the budget year for which projections of spending are made.
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- outyield — (of a crop, country, etc) to yield more than
- overbusy — Excessively busy.
- overbuys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbuy.