6-letter words containing n, y
- byzant — bezant (def 2).
- cagney — James. 1899–1986, US film actor, esp in gangster roles; his films include The Public Enemy (1931), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) for which he won an Oscar
- cairny — covered with cairns
- canary — Canaries are small yellow birds which sing beautifully and are often kept as pets.
- canopy — A canopy is a decorated cover, often made of cloth, which is placed above something such as a bed or a seat.
- canyon — A canyon is a long, narrow valley with very steep sides.
- carney — Mark (Joseph). born 1965, Canadian banker; governor of the Bank of Canada (2008–2013); governor of the Bank of England from 2013
- carnyx — a bronze Celtic war trumpet
- cayman — any tropical American crocodilian of the genus Caiman and related genera, similar to alligators but with a more heavily armoured belly: family Alligatoridae (alligators, etc)
- centry — Obsolete form of sentry.
- ceylon — an island in the Indian Ocean, off the SE coast of India: consists politically of the republic of Sri Lanka. Area: 64 644 sq km (24 959 sq miles)
- chancy — Something that is chancy involves a lot of risk or uncertainty.
- chaney — Lon [lon] /lɒn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1930, U.S. film actor.
- chanty — chantey.
- cheney — Richard B(ruce), known as Dick. born 1941, US Republican politician; vice president from 2001 to 2009
- cheyne — Thomas Kelly [kel-ee] /ˈkɛl i/ (Show IPA), 1841–1915, English clergyman and Biblical scholar.
- chinky — Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings.
- chinny — Having a prominent chin.
- chunky — A chunky person is broad and heavy.
- chyron — a text-based graphic overlay displayed at the bottom of a television screen or film frame, as closed captioning or the crawl of a newscast.
- clancy — Tom. 1947–2013, US novelist; his thrillers, many of which have been filmed, include The Hunt for Red October (1984), Clear and Present Danger (1989), Debt of Honour (1994) and Red Rabbit (2002)
- clangy — Having a clanging sound.
- clanky — making clanking sounds
- clingy — If you describe someone as clingy, you mean that they become very attached to people and depend on them too much.
- clunky — If you describe something as clunky, you mean that it is solid, heavy, and rather awkward.
- colony — A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country.
- conchy — conscientious objector.
- coneys — Plural form of coney.
- convey — To convey information or feelings means to cause them to be known or understood by someone.
- convoy — A convoy is a group of vehicles or ships travelling together.
- conway — Thomas, 1735–1800? Irish soldier of fortune in America and India.
- corbyn — Jeremy (Bernard). born 1949, British politician; leader of the Labour Party from 2015
- county — A county is a region of Britain, Ireland, or the USA which has its own local government.
- coying — artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- cranny — Crannies are very narrow openings or spaces in something.
- crayon — A crayon is a pencil containing coloured wax or clay, or a rod of coloured wax used for drawing.
- cringy — Cringeworthy.
- crinky — (rare) crinkly.
- cronyn — Hume, 1911–2003, Canadian actor in the U.S.
- croony — Characterized by crooning.
- crying — notorious; lamentable (esp in the phrase crying shame)
- cyanic — of or containing cyanogen
- cyanin — Alternative form of cyanine.
- cyano- — blue or dark blue
- cyclin — a type of protein in cell nuclei whose concentration changes cyclically throughout the cell cycle
- cyclon — A kind of large round artifact made by aboriginal Australians.
- cydnus — a river in SE Asia Minor, in Cilicia.
- cygnet — A cygnet is a young swan.
- cygnus — a constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way. The constellation contains the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, the intense radio galaxy Cygnus A, and the intense galactic X-ray source Cygnus X–1, which is probably a black hole