6-letter words containing g, y
- swingy — characterized by swing; lively; swinging: swingy dance tunes.
- syngas — synthetic natural gas. See under synthetic fuel.
- syzygy — Astronomy. an alignment of three celestial objects, as the sun, the earth, and either the moon or a planet: Syzygy in the sun-earth-moon system occurs at the time of full moon and new moon.
- tangly — full of tangles; snarled
- tanguy — Yves [eev] /iv/ (Show IPA), 1900–55, French painter, in the U.S. after 1939.
- thingy — Facetious. any small item whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- tigery — like a tiger
- tingly — tingling or causing a tingling sensation.
- toughy — toughie.
- toying — an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- trying — extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one's patience and goodwill to the limit: a trying day; a trying experience.
- twangy — having the sharp, vibrating tone of a plucked string.
- twiggy — of, relating to, or resembling twigs.
- tygart — a river in E West Virginia, flowing N and joining the West Fork River to form the Monongahela River. 160 miles (257 km) long.
- typing — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- tyring — to furnish with tires.
- uglify — to make ugly.
- uglily — very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- ungyve — to release from shackles
- vagary — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- voguey — relating to someone who aspires to be fashionable
- voyage — a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.
- vyborg — a seaport in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Gulf of Finland: formerly in Finland.
- waggly — waggling; unsteady.
- whingy — complaining peevishly
- wiggly — wiggling: a wiggly child.
- wrying — Present participle of wry.
- wyswyg — What You See Is What You Get
- yahgan — a member of an Indian people of the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego and adjacent islands.
- yangon — a republic in SE Asia, on the Bay of Bengal. 261,789 sq. mi. (678,034 sq. km). Capital: Yangon.
- yangqu — former name of Taiyuan.
- yawing — to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
- yeager — Charles (Elwood) ("Chuck") born 1923, U.S. aviator and test pilot: the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound (1947).
- ygmtpo — (chat) (Usenet) "You Greatly Misunderstood The Purpose Of".
- yigdal — a liturgical prayer or hymn expressing the faith of Israel in God, usually sung responsively by the cantor and congregation at the close of the evening service on the Sabbath and festivals.
- yogini — a woman who practices yoga.
- yogism — a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle.
- yogurt — a prepared food having the consistency of custard, made from milk curdled by the action of cultures, sometimes sweetened or flavored.
- yoking — a device for joining together a pair of draft animals, especially oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal. Compare harness (def 1).
- younge — Obsolete spelling of young.
- youngs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of young.
- zygoid — Of a zygote.
- zygoma — zygomatic arch.
- zygose — the union of two gametes; conjugation.
- zygote — the cell produced by the union of two gametes, before it undergoes cleavage.