6-letter words containing y, g
- hungry — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hygeia — the Greek goddess of health
- hygric — of or relating to moisture.
- hygro- — indicating moisture
- hyping — to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
- ignify — (obsolete) To form into fire.
- ignomy — Obsolete spelling of ignominy.
- jangly — to produce a harsh, discordant sound, as two comparatively small, thin, or hollow pieces of metal hitting together: The charms on her bracelet jangle as she moves.
- jaygee — lieutenant junior grade
- jiggly — tending to jiggle or marked by a jiggling movement.
- jingly — to make clinking or tinkling sounds, as do coins, keys, or other light, resonant metal objects when coming into contact or being struck together repeatedly: The keys on his belt jingled as he walked.
- joying — Present participle of joy.
- jungly — resembling or suggesting a jungle.
- keyage — Alternative form of quayage.
- keying — Present participle of key.
- kingly — stately or splendid, as resembling, suggesting, or befitting a king; regal: He strode into the room with a kingly air.
- kludgy — Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.
- knaggy — knotty; rough with knots.
- knyght — Obsolete spelling of knight.
- kyogen — a brief Japanese play performed between Nō plays to provide comic relief.
- kyrgyz — a member of a Mongoloid people of central Asia, inhabiting Kyrgyzstan and a vast area of central Siberia
- laughy — tending to laugh a lot or to make people laugh a lot
- laying — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- legacy — legacy system
- lighty — (obsolete) illuminated.
- logily — in a sluggish, heavy manner
- logway — gangway (def 7).
- longly — having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.
- longyi — a cloth used as a turban, scarf, sarong, etc., in India, Pakistan, and Burma.
- loungy — to pass time idly and indolently.
- loyang — Luoyang.
- lungyi — lungi.
- lyghte — Obsolete spelling of light.
- lyings — Plural form of lying.
- lynagh — Michael. born 1963, Australian Rugby Union player; won 72 caps (1984–95) and scored 911 points (an Australian record)
- lyngvi — a rival of Sigmund for Hjordis who kills Sigmund and is killed by Sigurd.
- lysing — Present participle of lyse.
- maguey — any of several plants of the genus Agave, of the agave family, especially the cantala, A. cantala.
- magyar — a member of the ethnic group, of the Finno-Ugric stock, that forms the predominant element of the population of Hungary.
- mangey — having, caused by, or like the mange.
- margay — a small tiger cat, Felis tigrina, of tropical America: now rare.
- maungy — (esp of a child) sulky, bad-tempered, or peevish
- maying — the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
- mighty — having, characterized by, or showing superior power or strength: mighty rulers.
- morgay — a European small-spotted dogfish, Scyllium canicula
- mygale — any spider of the genus Mygale, native to parts of North, Central and South America, commonly known as bird-eating spiders
- myogen — any of several proteins found in muscle
- nagoya — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan.
- naying — Present participle of nay.
- niggly — Bad-tempered, especially about trivial details.