5-letter words containing e, y
- cycle — If you cycle, you ride a bicycle.
- cyder — cider
- cymes — Plural form of cyme.
- daley — Richard J(oseph) 1902–76, U.S. politician: mayor of Chicago 1955–76.
- dayer — (in combination) Something lasting a specified number of days.
- dealy — (US, slang) An object, especially a gadget, whose name the speaker currently cannot recall.
- deary — a term of affection: now often sarcastic or facetious
- debby — relating to or resembling a debutante
- debye — Peter Joseph Wilhelm. 1884–1966, Dutch chemist and physicist, working in the US: Nobel prize for chemistry (1936) for his work on dipole moments
- decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
- decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
- decry — If someone decries an idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
- decyl — a group of isomeric univalent radicals, C 10 H 21 , derived from the decanes by removing one hydrogen atom.
- deedy — hard-working, busy, eager, and tireless
- defly — Obsolete form of deftly.
- deify — If someone is deified, they are considered to be a god or are regarded with very great respect.
- deity — A deity is a god or goddess.
- delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- delly — full of dells
- denay — a denial
- denny — a male given name, form of Dennis.
- denys — Saint, Denîs, Saint.
- deray — disorder; chaos; disarray
- derby — The Derby is the name of a race for three-year-old horses that takes place each year. In Britain, it refers to a race that takes place in Epsom. In the United States, it refers particularly to the Kentucky Derby.
- derny — (cycling) A motorized bicycle for paced cycling events such as keirin.
- derpy — (slang) Foolish, silly.
- derry — a derelict house, esp one used by tramps, drug addicts, etc
- devoy — Dame Susan (Elizabeth Anne). born 1964, New Zealand squash player; winner of the World Open Championship 1985, 1987, 1990, and 1992
- dewey — John. 1859–1952, US pragmatist philosopher and educator: an exponent of progressivism in education, he formulated an instrumentalist theory of learning through experience. His works include The School and Society (1899), Democracy and Education (1916), and Logic: the Theory of Inquiry (1938)
- dicey — Something that is dicey is slightly dangerous or uncertain.
- diety — Good for a diet.
- dikey — dyke2 .
- divey — Having the character of a dive, a disreputable bar or nightclub.
- dogey — dogie.
- doney — (colloquial) girl, sweetheart, darling, young woman, woman.
- dopey — stupid; inane: It was rather dopey of him to lock himself out.
- doyen — the senior member, as in age, rank, or experience, of a group, class, profession, etc.
- doyle — Sir Arthur Conan [kaw-nuh n,, koh-] /ˈkɔ nən,, ˈkoʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1859–1930, British physician, novelist, and detective-story writer.
- dreys — Plural form of drey.
- dryer — Also, drier. a machine, appliance, or apparatus for removing moisture, as by forced ventilation or heat: hair dryer; clothes dryer.
- dyers — Plural form of dyer.
- dyfed — a county in Wales. 2227 sq. mi. (5767 sq. km).
- dykes — Plural form of dyke.
- dykey — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
- dynel — a synthetic co-polymer of acrylonitrile and vinyl chloride, used to create a textile similar to wool
- early — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- ebery — Eye dialect of every.
- ebony — a hard, heavy, durable wood, most highly prized when black, from various tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, as D. ebenum of southern India and Sri Lanka, used for cabinetwork, ornamental objects, etc.
- edify — to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift: religious paintings that edify the viewer.
- edyth — a female given name.