6-letter words containing o, y
- homily — a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature.
- 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.
- hookey — unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
- hooley — (Ireland) A party; an evening of traditional music and dance.
- hoopty — (slang) an old, worn-out car.
- hooray — joy
- hooyah — (US, military) Official battle yell of the US Navy.
- horary — pertaining to an hour; indicating the hours: the horary circle.
- 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.
- horsey — of, relating to, or characteristic of a horse.
- horthy — Miklós von Nagybánya [mik-lohsh fawn nod-yuh-bah-nyo] /ˈmɪk loʊʃ fɔn ˈnɒd yəˌbɑ nyɒ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1957, Hungarian admiral: regent of Hungary 1920–44.
- hostly — of or proper to a host: the hostly qualities of consideration and generosity.
- hostry — an inn or lodging house, hostelry
- hotkey — an assigned key or sequence of keys programmed to execute a command or perform a specific task in a software application: On Windows computers, the hotkey Ctrl+S can be used to quickly save a file.
- hourly — of, pertaining to, occurring, or done each successive hour: hourly news reports.
- housey — Resembling house music.
- 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.
- hyalo- — of, relating to, or resembling glass
- hydro- — indicating or denoting water, liquid, or fluid
- hydroa — any skin condition characterized by red vesicular areas.
- hydron — (chemistry) any hydrogen cation.
- hydros — Plural form of hydro.
- hyeto- — indicating rain
- hygro- — indicating moisture
- hyksos — a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700–1580 b.c.: believed to have been a Semitic people that originally migrated into Egypt from Asia.
- hyoids — Plural form of hyoid.
- hypno- — indicating sleep
- hypnos — the ancient Greek god of sleep.
- hypoid — A bevel wheel with teeth engaging with a spiral pinion mounted at right angles to the wheel’s axis, used to connect nonintersecting shafts in vehicle transmissions and other mechanisms.
- hypso- — indicating height
- hyssop — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Hyssopus, of the mint family, especially H. officinalis, native to Europe, having clusters of small blue flowers.
- hyzone — triatomic hydrogen, H 3 .
- idiocy — utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.: All this talk of zombies coming to attack us is pure idiocy.
- ignomy — Obsolete spelling of ignominy.
- imbody — embody.
- imploy — Obsolete spelling of employ.
- incony — fine; delicate; pretty
- jalopy — an old, decrepit, or unpretentious automobile.
- jockey — a person who rides horses professionally in races.
- johnny — (sometimes lowercase) a familiar term of address for a man or boy.
- jokily — lacking in seriousness; frivolous: The editorial had an offensively jokey tone for such an important subject.
- jolley — One who jigs.
- jouncy — Bumpy or bouncy.
- journy — Obsolete form of journey.
- joyful — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.