6-letter words containing p, y
- floppy — tending to flop.
- fly-up — a formal ceremony at which a girl leaves her Brownie troop, receives a pair of embroidered wings for her uniform, and becomes a member of an intermediate Girl Scout troop.
- frumpy — frumpish.
- fry up — If you fry up food, you fry it, especially in order to make a quick, casual meal.
- frypan — (US, Australia, New Zealand) A frying pan.
- furphy — a false report; rumor.
- garply — /gar'plee/ A metasyntactic variable like foo, once popular among SAIL hackers.
- gilpey — a mischievous, frolicsome boy or girl
- gloopy — (informal) Having a glutinous, sloppy consistency; gloppy.
- gloppy — marked by or full of glop.
- glumpy — sullen
- glyphs — Plural form of glyph.
- grampy — (informal, childish) grandfather.
- grapey — of, like, or composed of grapes.
- gripey — resembling or causing gripes.
- grippy — stingy; avaricious.
- grumpy — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- gympie — a tall tree with stinging hairs on its leaves
- gypped — Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
- gypsie — Archaic spelling of gypsy.
- gypsum — a very common mineral, hydrated calcium sulfate, CaSO 4 ⋅2H 2 O, occurring in crystals and in masses, soft enough to be scratched by the fingernail: used to make plaster of Paris, as an ornamental material, as a fertilizer, etc.
- helply — (UK dialectal) Aiding; assisting; ready to help; helpful.
- hoopty — (slang) an old, worn-out car.
- humpty — a low padded seat; pouffe
- hypate — (on the ancient Greek lyre) the highest placed string, producing the lowest tone
- hyper- — Hyper- is used to form adjectives that describe someone as having a lot or too much of a particular quality.
- hyphae — (in a fungus) one of the threadlike elements of the mycelium.
- hyphal — Of or pertaining to hyphae.
- hyphen — a short line (-) used to connect the parts of a compound word or the parts of a word divided for any purpose.
- hyping — to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
- hypnic — relating to or inducing sleep
- hypno- — indicating sleep
- hypnos — the ancient Greek god of sleep.
- hypnum — any of various plants of the genus Hypnum, the largest genus of moss
- hypnus — Hypnos
- 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.
- hypped — (dated) Affected with hypochondria.
- 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.
- imploy — Obsolete spelling of employ.
- jalopy — an old, decrepit, or unpretentious automobile.
- japery — to jest; joke; gibe.
- jimply — slender; trim; delicate.
- joypad — a handheld input device used in video games to control the movement of graphic elements on the screen, usually having buttons and a directional control.
- joypop — Slang. to take a narcotic drug occasionally, but without being an addict.
- kaypoh — (Singapore) busybody.
- kempty — (of wool) Coarse or rough, like kemp.
- key up — a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
- keycap — The part of a key (on a keyboard) that is pressed by the user, as opposed to any electromechanical unit underneath.
- keymap — A collection of keymappings.