5-letter words containing m, y
- mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
- merry — full of cheerfulness or gaiety; joyous in disposition or spirit: a merry little man.
- meryl — a female given name, form of Merle.
- meshy — formed with meshes; meshed.
- messy — characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: a messy room.
- methy — (US, Canada, dated) The burbot.
- metty — a female given name, form of Matilda or Martha.
- meyer — Adolf, 1866–1950, U.S. psychiatrist, born in Switzerland.
- micky — Mickey (def 2).
- middy — Informal. a midshipman.
- miffy — touchy; inclined to take offense.
- milky — of or like milk, especially in appearance or consistency.
- milly — a female given name, form of Milicent or Mildred.
- milty — full of milt
- mimsy — (nonce) A nonce word in w Lewis Carroll's w Jabberwocky combining the senses of
- mincy — excessively particular or fussy, esp with regards to eating
- mingy — mean and stingy; niggardly.
- minny — minnow.
- minty — homosexual.
- minxy — Characteristic of a minx (flirtatious young woman).
- minya — Al (æl ) ; al) city in central Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 179,000
- mirky — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- misly — Raining in very small drops.
- missy — young miss; girl.
- misty — abounding in or clouded by mist.
- mitty — Walter Mitty.
- moany — Tending to grumble or complain, typically about trivial issues.
- mobby — a drink fermented in the West Indies from sweet potatoes
- moggy — a cat.
- moity — full of moits.
- moldy — overgrown or covered with mold.
- molly — any of certain livebearing freshwater fishes of the genus Mollienisia, popular in home aquariums.
- mommy — mother1 (defs 1, 2, 4).
- momsy — (US, childish, informal) mother; mom.
- money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- monty — The full amount expected, desired, or possible.
- moody — given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored.
- moony — dreamy, listless, or silly.
- moory — Resembling a moor; swampy; boggy.
- mopey — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
- moppy — (of hair) disordered, tousled.
- mopsy — an untidy or dowdy woman
- moray — any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- mosby — John Singleton [sing-guh l-tuh n] /ˈsɪŋ gəl tən/ (Show IPA), 1833–1916, Confederate cavalry colonel.
- mosey — to wander or shuffle about leisurely; stroll; saunter (often followed by along, about, etc.).
- mossy — overgrown with or abounding in moss: a mossy stone.
- motey — full of moits.
- mothy — containing moths.
- motty — (Scotland) Full of, or consisting of, motes.
- mousy — resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.