10-Letter Words Containing Y

""Produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion; deceptive: "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy" (Tom Wicker).""

IMAGINE to form a mental picture of

Stupid act

The quality or condition of being immaculate.

IMMANENT dwelling within

In an immature manner.

Lack of development

Any minute now

The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.

Immoderateness.

Boastfully misrepresented my old times

As an egotist would

Naughty Timmy and I have spoken of sinfulness

How gods live

Undyingly, imperishably

""The science which studies the immune system, the processes of immunity, and the nature of the immune response, and techniques of analysis which use the immune response.""

In an impalpable manner.

""IMPART to communicate, also EMPART""

IMPASSE a position from which there is no escape

IMPASSE a position from which there is no escape

IMPECCABLE Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong.

This person's beautiful female, friend in a majestic sort of way

In an implacable manner.

Without words being used

How boors behave

Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important.

Forcefully I am showing off only by half

I'm modelling Lycra yellow tops in striking fashion

Not possibly.

Suggest bottling old wine without strength

""IMPROBABLE Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event. as, an improbable story or event.""

Not according to Hoyle

In an unseemly manner

Suggest a rodeo competitor has entered wrongfully

In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.

Immodesty.

Error seen in a key position of church

Lack of correctness

One's out in a cold clergyman's office

In an inactive manner.

Lack of motion

Idleness

Lack in capacity of processed cyanide ingested

Shortcoming

INARGUABLE

Lack of required skills

Lack of efficacy

Lack of power or ability

In icy cavern Eddie explodes bomb

Likely to stir up trouble

Danny fiddled with one rice bomb

The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.

INCHOATE to {begin=v}

Beginning; commencement; incipient state.

INCISIVE penetrating

The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness.

Men cycle in terribly harsh weather

In an incredible manner.

Serving for incubation.

Awful cynic admits expressing hesitation to Benedict Little from ministry

'Nice bum, Nancy' inappropriate with one leaving ministry

In an improper manner

Risque display

Tastelessness of cod Iceland found in Arctic

New dictionary is sort of revealing

In a roundabout manner.

In a roundabout way

Round about

The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness.

In an indolent manner.

Caffeine reduced in treatment during cold - lack of capacity to work

Futility

Civil rights problem.

Popular attribute covers key difference

Sociologist's concern

INERTIAL pertaining to {inertia=n}

Vanity and bile will spread round of necessity

With single-minded determination

Hardly in a skillful way

In an inexpiable manner of degree; to a degree that admits of no atonement.

In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly.

Notoriously

Unhappiness in City life to be turned around

""In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.""

Signify Miss Duffy's time

Cheating on a spouse

Betrayal of faith

Violation of trust

""Without bounds or limits; beyond or below assignable limits; as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity. as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity.""

In an inflexible manner.

Advise colleague in casual fashion

Advise partner in a friendly way

Oh, this tuxedo? I just threw it on, Tom said...

INFORMED inform

Intrinsically

""Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.""

In an inhumane manner.

Cruelness, brutality

Cruelty that's part of society (wordplay)

Heartlessness and senselessness about olfactory offensiveness

In an inimical manner.

""INIMITABLE Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence. as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence.""

""Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step. as, an initiatory step.""

In a dewy-eyed way

Not knowing any better

How an embarrassing question may be asked

Novel concerned with river turning blue

Unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods.

A rector in delirium is unhealthy

Unhealthful

Madness consumes a king - that's not conducive to health

Banality is swirling with voracious issues

Greedily.

In a self-conscious manner

With doubt

Lack of confidence; anxiety

Lack of confidence

Waspish, it might be, about Geller's unease (wordplay)

In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly; gradually.

INSIPID dull and uninteresting

The state of urgently demanding notice or attention; insistence.

So cheese is in tiny wrapping, Highness

Tinier boys disorderly, being drunk

Drunkenness

Unsociably.

With real rudeness

INSOLE the inner sole of a shoe or boot

Lack of funds

It's a sorry state of affairs

Feared red state

Sometime ailment of New Yorkers.

Narrow-mindedness.

At home son meets pressure, causing rebellion

Rebellion in South leads to need for speedy action

Revolt

INTANGIBLE Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.

Sheep coming together by home as a complete unit (wordplay)

Intentionally.

Internally; inwardly.

LAYER to form a single thickness

Bring two families together, perhaps

Wed within family group

Do what Abie's Irish Rose did

Associate at a summer job (wordplay)

Shut your friend up for the duration inside

PARTY to attend a social gathering

Interplay

How you might be acquainted with a lover

Novel ain't timely, as secretly it's not for publication perhaps

Privately

How heroes act

With derring-do

However bravely, may 'e print this without a lot of work (wordplay)

Introfy

INUNDATOR

""Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will. as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.""

Inestimably.

Always; in every case.

""Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deeprooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error.""

""INVINCIBLE Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle. as, an invincible army, or obstacle.""

Without violation.

Using or containing invitations.

INVITING an invitation

Making or containing invocation; invoking.

INVOLVED involve

""IRENICAL peaceful in purpose, also IRENIC, EIRENIC, EIRENICAL""

How many O. Henry stories end

In a strange twist

How hipsters like some things

ISOCYANATE

Isoenzyme

ISOENZYME

Isopropyl

Sticker went quickly into cold travel

Ivorybill

JACKASS a male {donkey=n}

Jambalaya

Citizens of Kansas.

Topeka natives

Kansas natives

Baby Gould's nannies (wordplay)

Baby Gould's nannies?

Pedestrians of a sort.

First Chief Justice afoot?

First Chief Justice afoot (wordplay)

Crossing the street illegally

Jellify

From jail, outcry of good-humour

Fun characterized by humor

Outcry with jail riots? Sign of wit is needed

Dessert for Cash (wordplay)

Dessert for Carson (wordplay)

Cornbread on the griddle

Jollify

Journeyer

Journey

Adequately competent worker

Competent, but not exceptional, worker

Tourist perhaps is reliable but not outstanding

JOURNEY to {travel=v}

Joyful

The emotion of great happiness.

JOYOUS {joyful=adj}

Joypopper

Joypop

Joyriding

In a joyous manner

""Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals. as, judicatory tribunals.""

In a judicial capacity or judicial manner.

Justify

Youthfulness; adolescence.

Kanamycin

Adjective (-ic)

""The colorless, liquid component of the cell nucleus.""

Karyosome

KARYOTYPE

Karyotype

KARYOTYPE

A fine twilled woollen cloth

Twilled cloth of very fine wool

KERYGMA the early preaching of the Christian gospel

Keyboard

Essential lodger, type who can type

Data-input pro

Keybutton

Keypunch

Tillie the Toiler

Keypunch

KEYSTROKE

Data entry units (wordplay)

Button-downs (wordplay)

Mice avoid them

Kilocycle

KINDLESS without kindness

Kymograph

""KYMOGRAPH An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; called also kymographion. kymographion.""

*Coat room (wordplay)

Coat room (wordplay)

Where to go to get results (wordplay)

You can get lost in them

Greek archons offer cattle farms

Settings for old stories with misleading passages

Mahler 'cosy'? Wrong - sorrowful

Tearful (literary)

Rashly come out, getting weepy

Lacquey

Noble dessert (wordplay)

Tirami su cake

Common item in a trifle's cake layer

Ladyfish

LAMENT to cry out in grief

LAMENTED lament

Satirical writing ridiculing someone

Ridiculing bad Monroe play

Oral eponym, perhaps, suggesting personal satire

Opening to examine innards of engine, a mate having reversed battery terminal

Laryngeal

Plural or third person singular

Disease and Illness

An impediment to free speech (wordplay)

Inflammation of the windpipe

Sit angrily suffering sore throat

Lathyrism

Adjective (-ic)

With laughter or merriment.

"What's My Line?" candidate.

What's My Line? candidate.

LAUNDRY a place where clothes are washed and ironed

Lawyering

Adjective meaning resembling

Layperson

""A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service.""

Lectotype

The quality of being legible; legibleness.

State of being valid

Conformity to the law or rules

Propriety of member having sex being nameless

Gently wash out all the way along

In a direction along an object

Ghastly new craft from stem to stern

LENITIVE a soothing medicine

Leukocyte

LEUKOCYTE