5-letter words containing e, y
- beuys — Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf). 1921–86, German artist, a celebrated figure of the avant-garde, noted esp for his sculptures made of felt and animal fat
- bevvy — If you have a few bevvies, you have a few alcoholic drinks.
- beyle — Marie Henri [ma-ree ahn-ree] /maˈri ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA) real name of Stendhal.
- bluey — a blanket
- blype — a small piece of skin, particularly one which has peeled off following sunburn
- bogey — A bogey is something or someone that people are worried about, perhaps without much cause or reason.
- boyce — William. ?1710–79, English composer, noted esp for his church music and symphonies
- boyer — Charles (ʃarl), known as the Great Lover. 1899–1978, French film actor
- boyle — Robert. 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
- boyne — a river in the E Republic of Ireland, rising in the Bog of Allen and flowing northeast to the Irish Sea: William III of England defeated the deposed James II in a battle (Battle of the Boyne) on its banks in 1690, completing the overthrow of the Stuart cause in Ireland. Length: about 112 km (70 miles)
- bryce — Viscount James1838-1922; Eng. jurist, statesman, & historian, born in Ireland
- buyer — A buyer is a person who is buying something or who intends to buy it.
- byest — by1 .
- byrne — Donn [don] /dɒn/ (Show IPA), Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald.
- bytes — adjacent bits, usually eight, processed by a computer as a unit.
- cagey — If you say that someone is being cagey about something, you mean that you think they are deliberately not giving you much information or expressing an opinion about it.
- cakey — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
- carey — George (Leonard). born 1935, Archbishop of Canterbury (1991–2002)
- casey — Charles Dillon ("Casey") 1891–1975, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- cayce — a town in central South Carolina.
- cayes — a seaport on the SW coast of Haiti.
- cayey — a city in central Puerto Rico.
- cechy — Bohemia2
- celly — (slang) cellmate.
- ceryl — (chemistry) A radical, C27H55, supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from waxes.
- cetyl — the univalent hexadecyl radical found in some waxes
- chemy — (obsolete) alchemy, chemistry (prior to their being properly distinguished).
- chevy — chivy
- chewy — If food is chewy, it needs to be chewed a lot before it becomes soft enough to swallow.
- chyle — a milky fluid composed of lymph and emulsified fat globules, formed in the small intestine during digestion
- chyme — the thick fluid mass of partially digested food that leaves the stomach
- cloye — to claw
- cluey — well-informed and adroit
- clyde — a river in S Scotland, rising in South Lanarkshire and flowing northwest to the Firth of Clyde: formerly extensive shipyards. Length: 170 km (106 miles)
- clype — to tell tales; be an informer
- coley — any of various edible fishes, esp the coalfish
- coney — a kind of rabbit or a pika: early term no longer in scientific use
- corey — the penis
- cosey — cozy
- covey — A covey of grouse or partridges is a small group of them.
- coxey — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
- coyed — artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- coyer — Comparative form of coy.
- coyne — Obsolete spelling of coin.
- cozey — a tea cosy
- crecy — a village in N France: scene of the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War when the English defeated the French (1346)
- crepy — (esp of the skin) having a dry wrinkled appearance like crepe
- cryer — Archaic form of crier.
- cutey — cutie
- cyber — Of, relating to, or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality.