6-letter words containing o, y
- byblos — a major Phoenician city of the second millennium bc, in modern Lebanon
- byblow — an incidental or accidental blow.
- bygone — Bygone means happening or existing a very long time ago.
- byroad — a secondary or side road
- byroom — a private room
- byword — Someone or something that is a byword for a particular quality is well known for having that quality.
- bywork — work done outside usual working hours
- calory — calorie
- 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.
- cao yu — (Wan Jiabao) 1910–1996, Chinese playwright.
- carboy — a large glass or plastic bottle, usually protected by a basket or box, used for containing corrosive liquids such as acids
- caryo- — karyo-
- 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)
- choccy — a chocolate
- choicy — Fastidious; choosy; discriminating.
- chokey — (dated, British) prison.
- choosy — Someone who is choosy is difficult to please because they will only accept something if it is exactly what they want or if it is of very high quality.
- choppy — When water is choppy, there are a lot of small waves on it because there is a wind blowing.
- chromy — having a chrome colour or containing chrome
- 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.
- cloddy — a lump or mass, especially of earth or clay.
- clodly — heavily; in a clod-like manner
- cloggy — thick and sticky; causing clogging
- clotty — full of clots
- cloudy — If it is cloudy, there are a lot of clouds in the sky.
- cloyed — to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
- coachy — a coachman
- coccyx — The coccyx is the small triangular bone at the lower end of the spine in human beings and some apes.
- cocksy — cocky
- codify — If you codify a set of rules, you define them or present them in a clear and ordered way.
- coldly — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
- colley — Dated form of collie (dog breed).
- colony — A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country.
- comedy — Comedy consists of types of entertainment, such as plays and films, or particular scenes in them, that are intended to make people laugh.
- comely — A comely woman is attractive.
- comity — mutual civility; courtesy
- comply — If someone or something complies with an order or set of rules, they are in accordance with what is required or expected.
- 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.
- coochy — (slang) Vagina.
- cooley — Charles Horton [hawr-tn] /ˈhɔr tn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1929, U.S. author and pioneer in the field of sociology.
- coolly — moderately cold; neither warm nor cold: a rather cool evening.
- copays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copay.
- copley — John Singleton. 1738–1815, US painter
- copy's — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- corbyn — Jeremy (Bernard). born 1949, British politician; leader of the Labour Party from 2015