6-letter words containing o, y
- dayton — an industrial city in SW Ohio: aviation research centre. Pop: 161 696 (2003 est)
- decoys — Plural form of decoy.
- deoxy- — indicating the presence of less oxygen than in a specified related compound
- deploy — To deploy troops or military resources means to organize or position them so that they are ready to be used.
- dhoney — Dated form of dhoni.
- dhooly — dooly.
- dilogy — Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
- dioecy — The condition of being dioecious.
- dipody — a group of two feet in English poetry, in which one of the two accented syllables bears primary stress and the other bears secondary stress, used as a prosodic measurement in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse.
- dobbyn — Dave. born 1957, New Zealand singer and songwriter; member of Th’Dudes (1976–80) with whom he had the hit singles “Be Mine Tonight” (1979) and “Bliss” (1979); founder of DD Smash (1981–85) with whom he released the album Cool Bananas (1982); solo albums include: Loyal (1986) and Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale (1986)
- dolphy — Eric Allan, 1928–64, U.S. jazz musician.
- donary — a thing given for holy use
- donkey — the domestic ass, Equus asinus.
- doobry — (informal) Something not named; a thingy or whatsit.
- dopily — In a dopy way.
- dorsey — Tommy, 1905–56, U.S. jazz trombonist and bandleader.
- doubly — to a double measure or degree: to be doubly cautious.
- douchy — (pejorative) Like a douche bag.
- doughy — of or like dough, especially in being soft and heavy or pallid and flabby: a doughy consistency; a fat, doughy face.
- dourly — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- dovely — Of, pertaining to, or charateristic of a dove; dovelike.
- dowery — dowry.
- downey — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- doyens — Plural form of doyen.
- doyley — doily.
- dozily — In a dozy manner.
- drobny — Jaroslav (ˈjærəʊˌslɑːv; Czech ˈjarɔslaf). 1921–2001, British tennis and ice-hockey player, born in Czechoslovakia: Wimbledon champion 1954: a member of the Czech ice-hockey team in the 1948 Olympic Games
- drolly — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- droney — Characterized by droning.
- drooly — drooling, tending to drool, or covered with drool.
- droopy — hanging down; sagging.
- dropsy — (formerly) edema.
- drosky — droshky.
- drossy — containing dross.
- drowsy — half-asleep; sleepy.
- drylot — a bare outdoor enclosure for livestock
- dryout — the process or an instance of drying out: applying compost to the garden soil to retard dryout.
- dynamo — A machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy; a generator.
- dynode — (physics) Any of a series of electrodes within a photomultiplier tube.
- dyvour — a person who is bankrupt, begs for money, or owes money
- echoey — (of a sound) That echoes.
- ectomy — (medicine) Any operation involving surgical excision or removal.
- egoity — the essence of the ego, or one's personality
- embody — Be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling).
- emboly — (biology) embolic invagination.
- embryo — An unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development.
- employ — Give work to (someone) and pay them for it.
- enjoys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enjoy.
- envoys — Plural form of envoy.
- eponym — A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.