5-letter words containing e, y
- gyves — Usually, gyves. a shackle, especially for the leg; fetter.
- haley — Alex, 1921–92, U.S. writer.
- hayed — grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
- hayek — Friedrich August von [free-drik aw-guh st von;; German free-drikh ou-goo st fuh n] /ˈfri drɪk ˈɔ gəst vɒn;; German ˈfri drɪx ˈaʊ gʊst fən/ (Show IPA), 1899–1992, British economist, born in Austria: Nobel Prize 1974.
- hayer — a person who makes hay
- hayes — Carlton J(oseph) H(untley) 1882–1964, U.S. historian, educator, and diplomat.
- hayey — of, relating to, or resembling hay
- hayle — health and welfare
- heady — intoxicating: a heady wine.
- healy — Timothy Michael, 1855–1931, Irish nationalist politician.
- heapy — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- heavy — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- hedgy — abounding in hedges.
- heedy — (obsolete) Heedful; attentive.
- hefty — heavy; weighty: a hefty book.
- hempy — mischievous; often in trouble for mischief.
- hendy — Obsolete form of hende.
- henny — resembling a hen
- henry — the standard unit of inductance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the inductance of a closed circuit in which an electromotive force of one volt is produced when the electric current in the circuit varies uniformly at a rate of one ampere per second. Abbreviation: H.
- henty — George Alfred, 1832–1902, English journalist and novelist.
- herby — abounding in herbs or grass.
- herry — (transitive, obsolete) To honour, praise or celebrate.
- hetty — Henrietta Howland Robinson ("Hetty") 1835–1916, U.S. financier.
- hexyl — containing a hexyl group.
- heyer — Georgette. 1902–74, British historical novelist and writer of detective stories, noted esp for her romances of the Regency period
- heyne — (obsolete) A wretch; a rascal.
- heyse — Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- hiney — heinie2 .
- hokey — overly sentimental; mawkish: Two glasses of wine and he gets unbearably hokey; it's hard to believe he's a highly paid executive! Synonyms: corny, maudlin, melodramatic, cloying, goopy, mushy.
- holey — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- homey — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- honey — a sweet, viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers, and stored in nests or hives as food.
- hooey — silly or worthless talk, writing, ideas, etc.; nonsense; bunk: That's a lot of hooey and you know it!
- hosey — to choose sides, as in a children's game.
- hovey — Richard, 1864–1900, U.S. poet.
- hoyed — Simple past tense and past participle of hoy.
- hoyle — Edmond, 1672–1769, English authority and writer on card games.
- hydes — Plural form of hyde.
- hyena — 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.
- hygge — the practice of creating cosy and congenial environments that promote emotional wellbeing
- hykes — Plural form of hyke.
- hyleg — the dominant planet when someone is born which is said to determine the length of their life
- hymen — the ancient Greek god of marriage.
- hymie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a Jewish male.
- hyped — to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
- hyper — overexcited; overstimulated; keyed up.
- hypes — Plural form of hype.
- hythe — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- iyfeg — (Usenet) Insert Your Favourite Ethnic Group. Used as a meta-name when telling ethnic jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone. See also JEDR.
- jakey — a homeless alcoholic