5-letter words containing n, a, y
- unlay — to separate (a strand) from a rope.
- unpay — to not pay
- unsay — to withdraw (something said), as if it had never been said; retract.
- waney — wany (def 1).
- wanky — Contemptible, worthless, or stupid.
- wanly — of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
- wanty — (UK, dialectal) A girth or belly-band for a horse's harness.
- wayne — Anthony ("Mad Anthony") 1745–96, American Revolutionary War general.
- xylan — A polysaccharide found in plant cell walls that hydrolyzes to xylose.
- yagni — You aren't gonna need it
- yajna — A ritual sacrifice with a specific objective.
- yakin — A large Himalayan antelope, Budorcas taxicolor.
- yamen — (in the Chinese Empire) the residence or office of a public official.
- yanan — a city in N Shaanxi province, in N central China: the headquarters of Chinese Communists 1937–47.
- yance — (dialect, Northern English dialect) once (in both senses: only one time, and formerly).
- yanks — Plural form of yank.
- yapon — a holly shrub or small tree, Ilex vomitoria, of the southern U.S., having bitter leaves that are sometimes brewed as a tea.
- yaren — the capital of the Republic of Nauru.
- yarns — Plural form of yarn.
- yasna — a part of the Avesta including the Gathas and other liturgical texts.
- yawns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yawn.
- yawny — emitting or causing yawns: yawny spectators; a yawny debate.
- yeans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yean.
- yearn — to have an earnest or strong desire; long: to yearn for a quiet vacation.
- yenan — Wade-Giles. Yanan.
- yenta — a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.
- yojan — an ancient Indian unit of distance varying between about four and ten miles depending upon the locality
- yulan — a magnolia tree, Magnolia heptapeta, native to China, having large, fragrant white flowers and cylindrical brownish fruit.
- yuman — a family of languages including the language shared by the Yuma and Mohave Indians and several other languages of the lower valley of the Colorado River.
- zayin — the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- zyban — a drug that acts on the brain; used to help people give up smoking