6-letter words containing e, y
- 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.
- geekly — (rare) Concerning or typical of geeks.
- geminy — a pair
- gensym — (library) /jen'sim/ (From the MacLISP for "generated symbol") To invent a new name for something temporary, in such a way that the name is almost certainly not in conflict with one already in use. The canonical form of a gensym is "Gnnnn" where nnnn represents a number; any LISP hacker would recognise G0093 (for example) as a gensym. Gensymmed names are useful for storing or uniquely identifying crufties.
- gently — kindly; amiable: a gentle manner.
- gentry — wellborn and well-bred people.
- geryon — a winged monster with three bodies joined at the waist, killed by Hercules, who stole the monster's cattle as his tenth labour
- get by — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- geyser — a hot spring that intermittently sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air.
- gilley — (humour) (Usenet) The unit of analogical bogosity. According to its originator, the standard for one gilley was "the act of bogotoficiously comparing the shutting down of 1000 machines for a day with the killing of one person". The milligilley has been found to suffice for most normal conversational exchanges.
- gilpey — a mischievous, frolicsome boy or girl
- gleamy — gleaming.
- gleety — characteristic of or resembling gleet.
- glegly — quickly; cleverly
- gleyed — Simple past tense and past participle of gley.
- gombey — (music, Bermuda) A type of Afro-Bermudan folk music and dance tradition.
- gooney — Slang. stupid, foolish, or awkward: a goony smile on his face.
- goosey — Having or showing a quality considered to be characteristic of a goose, especially foolishness or nervousness.
- 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.
- greedy — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
- greely — Adolphus Washington, 1844–1935, U.S. general and arctic explorer.
- greeny — Slightly green.
- gremmy — gremmie.
- gretry — André Ernest Modeste [ahn-drey er-nest maw-dest] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ɛrˈnɛst mɔˈdɛst/ (Show IPA), 1741–1813, French operatic composer.
- greyed — Simple past tense and past participle of grey.
- greyer — of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- gripey — resembling or causing gripes.
- groyne — groin (def 4).
- gryesy — grey
- gulley — gully1 (defs 1, 2).
- gungey — Alternative spelling of gungy.
- gurney — a flat, padded table or stretcher with legs and wheels, for transporting patients or bodies.
- guryev — a port city in W Kazakhstan, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea.
- guyler — a person who tricks or hoodwinks
- guyver — affectation of speech or manner.
- gympie — a tall tree with stinging hairs on its leaves
- gynney — a guinea-fowl or a female guinea-fowl
- gypped — Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
- gypsie — Archaic spelling of gypsy.
- gyrase — a bacterial enzyme that causes supercoiling of DNA.
- gyrate — to move in a circle or spiral, or around a fixed point; whirl.
- gyrene — a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- gyrose — marked with wavy lines.
- 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.