6-letter words containing y, e, i
- eyries — Plural form of eyrie.
- feisty — full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited; spunky; plucky: The champion is faced with a feisty challenger.
- ferity — a wild, untamed, or uncultivated state.
- fielty — The state of owing one's service (particularly of a soldier, warrior, knight, rider) to a king, queen, or other ruler.
- fikery — fidgetiness, fussiness, restlessness
- finely — in a fine manner; excellently; elegantly; delicately; minutely; nicely; subtly.
- finery — fine or showy dress, ornaments, etc.
- finley — a male given name.
- finney — Charles Grandison [gran-di-suh n] /ˈgræn dɪ sən/ (Show IPA), 1792–1875, U.S. clergyman and educator.
- freity — superstitious
- gaiety — the state of being joyous, vivacious, or cheerful.
- geminy — a pair
- gilley — (humour) (Usenet) The unit of analogical bogosity. According to its originator, the standard for one gilley was "the act of bogotoficiously comparing the shutting down of 1000 machines for a day with the killing of one person". The milligilley has been found to suffice for most normal conversational exchanges.
- gilpey — a mischievous, frolicsome boy or girl
- gripey — resembling or causing gripes.
- gympie — a tall tree with stinging hairs on its leaves
- gypsie — Archaic spelling of gypsy.
- hickey — Slang. a pimple. a reddish mark left on the skin by a passionate kiss.
- hineys — heinie2 .
- hinkey — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hyenic — a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
- hygeia — the Greek goddess of health
- hymies — Plural form of hymie.
- hytime — Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language: an emerging ANSI/ISO Standard from the SGML Users' Group's Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia (SIGhyper). A hypermedia extension of SGML.
- ieyasu — Tokugawa [taw-koo-gah-wah] /ˈtɔ kuˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.
- ilkley — a town in N England, in Bradford unitary authority, West Yorkshire: nearby is Ilkley Moor (to the south). Pop: 13 472 (2001)
- jitney — a small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers, originally charging each passenger five cents.
- key in — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keying — Present participle of key.
- kidney — Anatomy. either of a pair of bean-shaped organs in the back part of the abdominal cavity that form and excrete urine, regulate fluid and electrolyte balance, and act as endocrine glands.
- kinsey — Alfred Charles, 1894–1956, U.S. zoologist; directed studies of human sexual behavior.
- kylies — Plural form of kylie.
- lenify — (transitive) To assuage or mitigate; to soften.
- lenity — the quality or state of being mild or gentle, as toward others.
- levity — lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness.
- lie-by — a paved section alongside a highway for automobiles in need of emergency repairs.
- liefly — delightful, pleasant, or lovable
- liffey — a river in the E Republic of Ireland, flowing NW and NE from County Wicklow into Dublin Bay. 50 miles (81 km) long.
- likely — probably or apparently destined (usually followed by an infinitive): something not likely to happen.
- limeys — Plural form of limey.
- lineny — similar to or resembling linen
- linney — a lean-to shed
- linsey — linsey-woolsey.
- lively — eventful, stirring, or exciting: The opposition gave us a lively time.
- livery — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
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- lycine — betaine.
- lysine — a crystalline, basic, amino acid, H 2 N(CH 2) 4 CH(NH 2)COOH, produced chiefly from many proteins by hydrolysis, essential in the nutrition of humans and animals. Symbol: K. Abbreviation: Lys;
- mickey — Also called Mickey Finn. Slang. a drink, usually alcoholic, to which a drug, purgative, or the like, has been secretly added, that renders the unsuspecting drinker helpless.
- milsey — a milk strainer