5-letter words containing y, e, a
- mayer — Julius Robert von [jool-yuh s rob-ert von;; German yoo-lee-oo s roh-bert fuh n] /ˈdʒul yəs ˈrɒb ərt vɒn;; German ˈyu li ʊs ˈroʊ bɛrt fən/ (Show IPA), 1814–78, German physicist.
- mazey — Obsolete form of mazy.
- mealy — having the qualities of meal; powdery; soft, dry, and crumbly: mealy potatoes; a mealy stone.
- meany — a small-minded, petty, or malicious person: The children said their teacher was a real meany.
- meaty — of or like meat.
- mylae — a port in NE Sicily: founded in the 8th century bc; scene of a battle (1860), in which Garibaldi defeated the Bourbon forces. Pop: 32 108 (2001)
- nayed — Simple past tense and past participle of nay.
- pacey — fast, full of action
- paley — Grace, 1922–2007, U.S. short-story writer and poet.
- payed — to coat or cover (seams, a ship's bottom, etc.) with pitch, tar, or the like.
- payee — a person to whom a check, money, etc., is payable.
- payer — the act of paying or being paid; payment.
- payne — John Howard, 1791–1852, U.S. actor and dramatist.
- peaky — peaked2 .
- peary — Robert Edwin, 1856–1920, U.S. admiral and arctic explorer.
- peaty — of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing the substance peat.
- peavy — peavey.
- rayed — having or represented as having emanating rays; radiate: The saint was painted with a rayed, beatific face.
- ready — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- relay — a series of persons relieving one another or taking turns; shift.
- renay — a person who disowns an organization, country, or belief system
- repay — to pay back or refund, as money.
- resay — to say again; repeat
- samey — If you describe a set of things as samey, you mean that they are all very similar, and it would be more interesting if they were different from each other.
- sayed — (in Islamic countries) a supposed descendant of Muhammad through his grandson Hussein, the second son of his daughter Fatima.
- sayer — to utter or pronounce; speak: What did you say? I said “Hello!”.
- seamy — unpleasant or sordid; low; disagreeable: the seamy side of life.
- taney — Roger Brooke, 1777–1864, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1836–64.
- teary — of or like tears.
- vealy — resembling veal.
- waley — Arthur (Arthur David Schloss) 1889–1966, British translator of Chinese and Japanese literature.
- waney — wany (def 1).
- wavey — a wild North American goose of the genus Chen, as the snow goose (white wavey) or blue goose (blue wavey)
- wayne — Anthony ("Mad Anthony") 1745–96, American Revolutionary War general.
- weaky — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Moist; damp; clammy.
- weary — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
- weasy — (obsolete) Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.
- yager — jaeger (defs 2, 3).
- yales — Plural form of yale.
- yamen — (in the Chinese Empire) the residence or office of a public official.
- yance — (dialect, Northern English dialect) once (in both senses: only one time, and formerly).
- yaren — the capital of the Republic of Nauru.
- yarer — quick; agile; lively.
- yates — Plural form of yate.
- yawed — to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
- yawey — of or relating to yaws.
- yealm — to prepare (straw) for thatching
- yeans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yean.
- yeard — (archaic) Alternative form of yard.
- yeare — Obsolete spelling of year.