6-letter words containing o, y
- eryngo — A plant of the genus Eryngium.
- etymon — A word or morpheme from which a later word is derived.
- eulogy — A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died.
- euonym — (rare) A name well suited to a person, place or thing so named.
- euroky — the ability of an organism to live under variable conditions
- exonym — A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.
- fanboy — Sometimes, fanboi. an obsessive male fan, especially of comic books, science fiction, video games, music, or electronic devices: Apple fanboys lined up to buy the new phone.
- felony — an offense, as murder or burglary, of graver character than those called misdemeanors, especially those commonly punished in the U.S. by imprisonment for more than a year.
- floaty — able to float; buoyant.
- flocky — like or characterized by flocks or tufts; flocculent.
- flooey — amiss or awry.
- floopy — Misspelling of floppy.
- floosy — a gaudily dressed, usually immoral woman, especially a prostitute.
- floozy — a gaudily dressed, usually immoral woman, especially a prostitute.
- floppy — tending to flop.
- florey — Sir Howard Walter, 1898–1968, Australian pathologist in England: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945.
- flossy — made of or resembling floss; downy.
- floury — of, relating to, or resembling flour.
- flyboy — Printing. fly1 (def 29b).
- flyoff — Meteorology. evapotranspiration (def 1).
- foisty — Mouldy, musty, fusty.
- folksy — friendly or neighborly; sociable.
- fondly — in a fond manner; lovingly or affectionately: He looked fondly at his child.
- foonly — 1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC time-sharing system SAIL was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at that time was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding for both the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed greatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. 2. The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colourful personalities. Many people remember the parrot which sat on Poole's shoulder and was a regular companion. 3. Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The first was the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was the computational engine used to create the graphics in the movie "TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but only one was ever made. The effort drained Foonly of its financial resources, and the company turned toward building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines. Unfortunately, these ran not the popular TOPS-20 but a TENEX variant called Foonex; this seriously limited their market. Also, the machines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineering prototypes requiring individual attention from more than usually competent site personnel, and thus had significant reliability problems. Poole's legendary temper and unwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help matters. By the time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly's proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the Mars, and the company never quite recovered. See the Mars entry for the continuation and moral of this story.
- footsy — Sometimes, footsies. the act of flirting or sharing a surreptitious intimacy.
- forays — Plural form of foray.
- formby — George. Real name George Booth. 1904–61, British comedian. He made many musical films in the 1930s, accompanying his songs on the ukulele
- formyl — containing the formyl group.
- forney — a steam locomotive having no front truck, four driving wheels, and a four-wheeled rear truck.
- forray — Obsolete form of foray (predatory excursion).
- forsay — To forbid.
- forthy — Therefore.
- forway — (intransitive) To go out of the way; go astray; err; make a mistake; sin.
- forwhy — why; wherefore.
- fossey — Dian [dahy-an] /daɪˈæn/ (Show IPA), 1932–85, U.S. zoologist: expert on great apes.
- foully — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- fourty — Misspelling of forty.
- fousty — (Bristol) Fusty.
- foxily — In a foxy manner.
- foyers — Plural form of foyer.
- froggy — of or characteristic of a frog.
- frosty — characterized by or producing frost; freezing; very cold: frosty weather.
- frothy — of, like, or having froth; foamy.
- frousy — frowzy.
- frouzy — dirty and untidy; slovenly.
- frowsy — frowzy.
- frowzy — dirty and untidy; slovenly.
- fylfot — a swastika.
- fynbos — (botany) Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of Proteaceae, restios and Ericaceae.
- geryon — a winged monster with three bodies joined at the waist, killed by Hercules, who stole the monster's cattle as his tenth labour