4-letter words containing y, a
- gapy — Veterinary Pathology. a parasitic disease of poultry and other birds, characterized by frequent gaping due to infestation of the trachea and bronchi with gapeworms.
- gary — Elbert Henry, 1846–1927, U.S. financier and lawyer.
- gaya — a city in central Bihar, in NE India: Hindu center of pilgrimage.
- gaye — Marvin. 1939–84, US soul singer and songwriter; recordings include "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1969), What's Going On (1971), and "Sexual Healing" (1982): shot dead by his father
- gays — Plural form of gay.
- gazy — tending to gaze
- goya — Francisco de [fran-sis-koh duh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw de,, -sees-] /frænˈsɪs koʊ də;; Spanish frɑnˈθis kɔ dɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), (Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes) 1746–1828, Spanish painter.
- gray — of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- gyan — Knowledge, especially spiritual or religious knowledge.
- haya — A beech tree, especially a Mexican beech.
- haye — A shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish).
- hays — John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
- hazy — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- heya — (sumo) the so-called \"stable\" of rikishi who train under the instruction of a particular shisho; the place where this group lives and trains.
- hiya — An informal greeting.
- hoya — any shrubby climbing plant of the genus Hoya, of the milkweed family, especially the wax plant, H. carnosa, a pot plant with waxy white flowers.
- hyar — (dialectal) here.
- hyla — a tree frog of the genus Hyla.
- iway — information superhighway
- iyar — the eighth month of the Jewish calendar.
- jawy — (obsolete) Relating to the jaws.
- jays — Plural form of jay.
- kady — A man's straw hat.
- katy — a female given name, form of Katherine or Catherine.
- kaya — Torreya nucifera, the vern Japanese nutmeg tree.
- kaye — Danny (David Daniel Kaminski) 1913–87, U.S. comedian, singer, and actor.
- kayo — a knockout in boxing.
- kays — Plural form of kay, the name of the letter K.
- kyak — kayak
- kyat — a paper money, cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of Burma (Myanmar), equal to 100 pyas.
- kyra — a female given name.
- lacy — of or resembling lace; lacelike: a lacy gown; a lacy leaf.
- lady — a woman who is refined, polite, and well-spoken: She may be poor and have little education, but she's a real lady.
- laky — of the color of a lake pigment.
- lamy — John Baptist (Jean Baptiste l'Amy) 1814–88, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, born in France: archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico 1875–88.
- lavy — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Lavish; liberal.
- laya — (music) The term for tempo in Indian music.
- laye — Obsolete spelling of lay.
- layn — (Judaism) To read from the Torah scroll during a Jewish prayer service.
- lays — Plural form of lay.
- lazy — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- lyam — (obsolete) A leash.
- lyra — (anatomy, dated) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.
- macy — R(owland) H(ussey) [roh-luh nd huhs-ee] /ˈroʊ lənd ˈhʌs i/ (Show IPA), 1823–77, U.S. retail merchant.
- mahy — Margaret. 1936–2012. New Zealand writer for children. Her books include A Lion in the Meadow (1969), The Changeover (1984), and Alchemy (2002)
- many — constituting or forming a large number; numerous: many people.
- mary — (Mary Stuart) 1542–87, queen of Scotland 1542–67; beheaded for plotting to assassinate her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
- maty — (archaic) A native house servant in India.
- maya — the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
- mayo — Charles Horace, 1865–1939, and his brother William James, 1861–1939, U.S. surgeons.