6-letter words containing n, y
- hineys — heinie2 .
- hinkey — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hinkty — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- honeys — Plural form of honey.
- honkey — honky.
- hornby — Nick. born 1958, British writer; his books include the memoir Fever Pitch (1992; filmed 1997) and the bestselling novels About a Boy (1998; filmed 2002), How To Be Good (2001), and Juliet, Naked (2009)
- horney — Karen, 1885–1952, U.S. psychiatrist and author, born in Germany.
- hoyden — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoying — Present participle of hoy.
- hrozny — Friedrich [German free-drikh] /German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), or Bedřich [Czech be-drzhikh] /Czech ˈbɛ drʒɪx/ (Show IPA), 1879–1952, Czech archaeologist and orientalist.
- hryvna — The basic monetary unit of Ukraine, equal to 100 kopiykas.
- hungry — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hunkey — (US, pejorative) A Hungarian (or, more generally, eastern European) labourer.
- hyaena — a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
- hyalin — Also, hyalin, H04/H0454500 hahy-uh-lin, ˈhaɪ ə lɪn. Biochemistry. a horny substance found in hydatid cysts, closely resembling chitin. a structureless, transparent substance found in cartilage, the eye, etc., resulting from the pathological degeneration of tissue.
- hydron — (chemistry) any hydrogen cation.
- hydyne — a type of fuel for launching rockets
- hyenas — Plural form of hyena.
- hyenic — a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
- hymens — Plural form of hymen.
- hymnal — Also called hymnbook [him-boo k] /ˈhɪmˌbʊk/ (Show IPA). a book of hymns for use in a religious service.
- hymned — Simple past tense and past participle of hymn.
- hymnic — Of, or relating to hymns.
- hyphen — a short line (-) used to connect the parts of a compound word or the parts of a word divided for any purpose.
- hyping — to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
- hypnic — relating to or inducing sleep
- hypno- — indicating sleep
- hypnos — the ancient Greek god of sleep.
- hypnum — any of various plants of the genus Hypnum, the largest genus of moss
- hypnus — Hypnos
- hyzone — triatomic hydrogen, H 3 .
- ignify — (obsolete) To form into fire.
- ignomy — Obsolete spelling of ignominy.
- incony — fine; delicate; pretty
- infamy — extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act: a time that will live in infamy.
- injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
- inlays — Plural form of inlay.
- inyala — an antelope, Tragelaphus angasii, that is native to South Africa
- jangly — to produce a harsh, discordant sound, as two comparatively small, thin, or hollow pieces of metal hitting together: The charms on her bracelet jangle as she moves.
- jansky — a unit of flux density for electromagnetic radiation, used chiefly in radio astronomy. Abbreviation: Jy.
- jaunty — easy and sprightly in manner or bearing: to walk with a jaunty step.
- jenney — William Le Baron [luh bar-uh n] /lə ˈbær ən/ (Show IPA), 1832–1907, U.S. engineer and architect: pioneer in skyscraper construction.
- jiminy — an expression of surprise (esp in the phrase by jiminy)
- jingly — to make clinking or tinkling sounds, as do coins, keys, or other light, resonant metal objects when coming into contact or being struck together repeatedly: The keys on his belt jingled as he walked.
- jitney — a small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers, originally charging each passenger five cents.
- johnny — (sometimes lowercase) a familiar term of address for a man or boy.
- jouncy — Bumpy or bouncy.
- journy — Obsolete form of journey.
- joying — Present participle of joy.