6-letter words containing a, y, e
- galley — a kitchen or an area with kitchen facilities in a ship, plane, or camper.
- gamely — in a game or plucky manner: They struggled gamely.
- gamesy — sporty; keen on sport
- gansey — A sweater or T-shirt.
- garvey — a scowlike open boat, variously propelled, used by oyster and clam fishermen in Delaware Bay and off the coasts of Delaware and New Jersey.
- gayest — of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex; homosexual: a gay couple. Antonyms: straight.
- gayety — gaiety.
- gleamy — gleaming.
- grapey — of, like, or composed of grapes.
- grayed — Simple past tense and past participle of gray.
- grayer — of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- greasy — smeared, covered, or soiled with grease.
- gyrase — a bacterial enzyme that causes supercoiling of DNA.
- gyrate — to move in a circle or spiral, or around a fixed point; whirl.
- hadley — Henry Kimball [kim-buh l] /ˈkɪm bəl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1937, U.S. composer and conductor.
- halevy — Fromental [fraw-mahn-tal] /frɔ mɑ̃ˈtal/ (Show IPA), (Jacques François Fromental Élie Lévy) 1790–1862, French composer, especially of operas.
- halley — Edmund or Edmond, 1656–1742, English astronomer.
- halsey — William Frederick ("Bull") 1882–1959, U.S. admiral.
- harley — Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford, 1661–1724, British statesman.
- harvey — William, 1578–1657, English physician: discoverer of the circulation of the blood.
- hauyne — a blue feldspathoid mineral found in igneous rock
- hawkey — Obsolete form of hockey.
- hayden — Melissa (Mildred Herman) 1923–2006, Canadian ballerina in the U.S.
- hayley — a female given name.
- haynes — Elwood [el-woo d] /ˈɛlˌwʊd/ (Show IPA), 1857–1925, U.S. inventor.
- haysel — the season for making hay
- headly — (archaic) Chief; principal; capital; (of sins) deadly.
- healey — Denis (Winston), Baron. 1917–2015, British Labour politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1974–79); deputy leader of the Labour Party (1980–83)
- heaney — Seamus [shey-muh s] /ˈʃeɪ məs/ (Show IPA), 1939–2013, Irish poet: Nobel Prize 1995.
- hearsy — resembling a hearse
- hearty — warm-hearted; affectionate; cordial; jovial: a hearty welcome.
- heathy — heathery.
- heyday — the stage or period of greatest vigor, strength, success, etc.; prime: the heyday of the vaudeville stars.
- hyades — Astronomy. a group of stars comprising a moving cluster in the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the approach of rain when they rose with the sun.
- hyaena — a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
- hyenas — Plural form of hyena.
- hyetal — of or relating to rain or rainfall.
- hygeia — the Greek goddess of health
- hypate — (on the ancient Greek lyre) the highest placed string, producing the lowest tone
- hyphae — (in a fungus) one of the threadlike elements of the mycelium.
- ieyasu — Tokugawa [taw-koo-gah-wah] /ˈtɔ kuˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.
- jackey — gin1 .
- jadery — ill-tempered or wearied behaviour
- japery — to jest; joke; gibe.
- jarvey — a hackney coachman.
- jaycee — a member of a civic group for young business and community leaders.
- jaygee — lieutenant junior grade
- jayvee — a player on a junior varsity team.
- jetway — A portable bridge put against an aircraft door to allow passengers to embark or disembark.
- kabyle — a member of a branch of the Berber people dwelling in NE Algeria.