6-letter words containing o, y
- lowboy — a low chest of drawers on short legs, resembling the lower part of a highboy.
- lowery — dark and gloomy; threatening: a lowery sky.
- lowkey — Alternative form of low key.
- loyall — Obsolete spelling of loyal.
- loyang — Luoyang.
- loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
- lycaon — a king of Arcadia said to have offered Zeus a plate of human flesh to learn whether the god was omniscient
- lyndon — a male given name.
- lynxos — A POSIX compliant real-time operating system from Lynx Real-Time Systems. It has a Unix-like interface to application programs.
- lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-, 1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth [neb-wert] /ˈnɛb wərt/ (Show IPA), 1803–73, English novelist, dramatist, and politician.
- malory — Sir Thomas, c1400–71, English author.
- mayors — Plural form of mayor.
- maypop — the edible fruit of the passionflower, Passiflora incarnata, of the southern U.S.
- mccloy — John Jay, 1895–1989, U.S. lawyer, banker, and government official.
- melody — musical sounds in agreeable succession or arrangement.
- memory — the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
- modify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- moiety — a half.
- moisty — Moist.
- monday — the second day of the week, following Sunday.
- moneys — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- monkey — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- monody — a Greek ode sung by a single voice, as in a tragedy; lament.
- moonly — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Moon; lunar.
- moosey — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a moose.
- mopery — mopish behavior.
- morays — any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- morgay — a European small-spotted dogfish, Scyllium canicula
- morley — Christopher Darlington, 1890–1957, U.S. writer.
- mornay — Also called Duplessis-Mornay. Philippe de [fee-leep duh] /fiˈlip də/ (Show IPA), Seigneur du Plessis-Marly [se-nyœr dy ple-see-mar-lee] /sɛˈnyœr dü plɛ si marˈli/ (Show IPA), ("Pope of the Huguenots") 1549–1623, French statesman and Protestant leader.
- morphy — Paul Charles, 1837–84, U.S. chess player.
- moryah — an exclamation of annoyance, disbelief, etc
- moseys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mosey.
- mosley — (Sir) Oswald Ernald [ur-nuh ld] /ˈɜr nəld/ (Show IPA), 1896–1980, English politician and fascist leader.
- mostly — for the most part; in the main: The work is mostly done.
- motley — exhibiting great diversity of elements: a motley crowd. Synonyms: heterogenous, varied, diverse, mixed, assorted, sundry; incongruous, disparate, diversified, dissimilar, divergent. Antonyms: homogeneous, uniform, identical; similar, like.
- motory — Causing or setting up motion.
- mouldy — a torpedo.
- mounty — (obsolete) The rise of a hawk, after prey.
- mousey — resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.
- mouthy — garrulous, often in a bombastic manner.
- mycol. — mycological
- mycose — Trehalose.
- mycota — an alternative taxonomic name for the kingdom Fungi.
- myelo- — bone marrow
- myelon — (anatomy) The spinal cord.
- myogen — any of several proteins found in muscle
- myomas — Plural form of myoma.
- myopes — Plural form of myope.
- myopia — Ophthalmology. a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused in front of the retina, objects being seen distinctly only when near to the eye; nearsightedness (opposed to hyperopia).