6-letter words containing k, y
- plucky — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- plunky — twanging
- pranky — inclined to play pranks.
- pricky — prickly.
- punkey — a biting midge of the family Ceratopogonidae
- pyknic — (of a physical type) having a fat, rounded build or body structure. Compare asthenic (def 2), athletic (def 5).
- quacky — sounding like a quack
- quicky — Alternative spelling of quickie.
- quirky — having or full of quirks.
- rakery — rakish behaviour; profligacy
- rankly — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- rickey — a drink made with lime juice, carbonated water, and gin or other liquor.
- rickly — run-down or rickety
- russky — Russki.
- rybnik — a city in S Poland, in Katowice province,on the Nacyna River.
- ryokan — a traditional Japanese inn or small hotel whose floors are covered with tatami.
- ryukyu — a chain of Japanese islands in the W Pacific between Japan and Taiwan. 3120 sq. mi. (1205 sq. km).
- ryurik — Rurik.
- sankey — Ira David. 1840–1908, US evangelist and hymnodist, noted for his revivalist campaigns in Britain and the US with D. L. Moody
- shacky — run-down; dilapidated: a shacky old place.
- shaykh — sheik (def 1).
- shonky — of dubious integrity or legality
- sickly — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- skanky — dirty, foul-smelling, or unattractive
- skeely — skilful
- skeevy — not respectable; immoral.
- skeezy — skeevy.
- skelly — a whitefish, Coregonus stigmaticus, of certain lakes in the Lake District
- skerry — a small, rocky island.
- skiddy — tending to skid or cause skidding: a skiddy shopping cart; an icy, skiddy driveway.
- skilly — a thin soup or gruel
- skimpy — lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- skinny — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
- skippy — tending to skip
- skivvy — Also called skivvy shirt. a man's cotton T-shirt.
- skolly — a Coloured hooligan, usually one of a gang
- skryer — someone who practises skrying
- skunky — of, relating to, or characteristic of a skunk: a skunky odor.
- skurry — to hurry or flurry about
- sky ad — an advertisement on a large banner, towed behind an aeroplane so that it can be viewed by people on the ground
- skybox — a private compartment, usually near the top of a stadium, for viewing a sports contest.
- skycap — a porter who carries passenger baggage at an airport or airline terminal.
- skying — the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth: airplanes in the sky; cloudy skies.
- skyish — like the sky
- skylab — a U.S. earth-orbiting space station that was periodically staffed by three separate crews of astronauts and remained in orbit 1973–79.
- skyman — an aviator or paratrooper.
- skyros — a Greek island in the W Aegean: the largest island of the Northern Sporades. 81 sq. mi. (210 sq. km).
- skyway — air lane.
- sleeky — sleek; smooth.
- slinky — characterized by or proceeding with slinking or stealthy movements.