7-letter words containing m, y
- mayfair — a fashionable neighborhood in London, England, E of Hyde Park.
- mayfish — striped killifish.
- mayhaps — Maybe, perhaps, possibly, perchance.
- mayhems — Plural form of mayhem.
- maynard — a male given name.
- mayoral — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- mayotte — one of the Comoro Islands, in the Indian Ocean, NW of Madagascar: an overseas department of France. 144 sq. mi. (373 sq. km).
- maypole — a tall pole, decorated with flowers and ribbons, around which people dance or engage in sports during May Day celebrations.
- maypops — Plural form of maypop.
- maytime — the month of May.
- mayweed — a composite plant, Anthemis cotula, native to Europe and Asia but naturalized in North America, having pungent, rank-smelling foliage and flower heads with a yellow disk and white rays.
- maywood — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- mazedly — in a bewildered manner
- mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- mcnally — Terrance, born 1938, U.S. playwright.
- meadowy — a tract of grassland used for pasture or serving as a hayfield.
- mediacy — the state of being mediate.
- medleys — Plural form of medley.
- menschy — Upstanding; having integrity and responsibility.
- mercery — a mercer's shop.
- mercify — (obsolete, rare, transitive) To have mercy on; to pity. (16th-19th c.).
- mercury — Chemistry. a heavy, silver-white, highly toxic metallic element, the only one that is liquid at room temperature; quicksilver: used in barometers, thermometers, pesticides, pharmaceutical preparations, reflecting surfaces of mirrors, and dental fillings, in certain switches, lamps, and other electric apparatus, and as a laboratory catalyst. Symbol: Hg; atomic weight: 200.59; atomic number: 80; specific gravity: 13.546 at 20°C; freezing point: −38.9°C; boiling point: 357°C.
- meronym — A term that denotes part of something but which is used to refer to the whole of it, e.g., faces when used to mean people in I see several familiar faces present.
- merrily — a female given name, form of Merry.
- messily — in a messy manner.
- metally — similar to, or suggestive of, metal
- metayer — a person who works the land using tools, seed, etc., furnished by the landlord and who receives a share of the harvest in compensation.
- methoxy — containing the methoxy group.
- metonym — a word used in metonymy.
- metrify — to put into meter; compose in verse.
- meynell — Alice Christiana (Thompson) 1850–1922, English poet and essayist.
- mickery — a waterhole, esp in a dry riverbed
- mickeys — Plural form of mickey.
- micrify — to make small or insignificant.
- middays — Plural form of midday.
- midways — Plural form of midway.
- midyear — the middle of the year.
- mightly — Mighty; competent; capable; strong; powerful.
- mikoyan — Anastas Ivanovich [uh-nuh-stahs ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /ʌ nʌˈstɑs iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1978, Soviet official: president of the Soviet Union 1964–65.
- mildewy — Affected by mildew; moldy.
- miliary — resembling millet seeds.
- mimicry — the act, practice, or art of mimicking.
- minicoy — southernmost island of the Lakshadweep territory, India, off the SW coast of India
- minorly — In a minor way; to a small degree.
- misally — to ally improperly or unsuitably.
- miscopy — to copy incorrectly: to miscopy an address.
- miserly — of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
- mislays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mislay.
- misplay — a wrong or bad play.
- misrely — to rely wrongly