6-letter words containing y, i, n
- eyeing — Present participle of eye.
- fainly — in a willing or eager manner
- fainty — feeling faint; about to lose consciousness.
- faying — Present participle of fay.
- finely — in a fine manner; excellently; elegantly; delicately; minutely; nicely; subtly.
- finery — fine or showy dress, ornaments, etc.
- finity — (rare, uncountable) The state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope.
- finlay — Carlos Juan [kahr-lohs wahn] /ˈkɑr loʊs wɑn/ (Show IPA), 1833–1915, U.S. physician, born in Cuba: first to suggest mosquito as carrier of yellow fever.
- finley — a male given name.
- finney — Charles Grandison [gran-di-suh n] /ˈgræn dɪ sən/ (Show IPA), 1792–1875, U.S. clergyman and educator.
- flinty — composed of, containing, or resembling flint, especially in hardness.
- fly-in — a convention, entertainment, or other gathering at which participants arrive by air: the annual fly-in of cattle breeders.
- flying — making flight or passing through the air; that flies: a flying insect; an unidentified flying object.
- fringy — a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip.
- frying — Present participle of fry.
- gainly — graceful; comely; handsome.
- gdynia — a seaport in N Poland, on the Gulf of Danzig.
- geminy — a pair
- glinty — shiny
- glycin — a poisonous crystalline compound, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , used as a photographic developer.
- grainy — resembling grain; granular.
- guying — Present participle of guy.
- gybing — Present participle of gybe.
- gyming — Present participle of gym.
- gymnic — (now rare) Gymnastic; athletic.
- gynoid — (science fiction) A robot/android in female form.
- gyrkin — (obsolete) A male gyrfalcon.
- gyving — Usually, gyves. a shackle, especially for the leg; fetter.
- haying — grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
- hincty — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hineys — heinie2 .
- hinkey — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hinkty — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- hoying — Present participle of hoy.
- hyalin — Also, hyalin, H04/H0454500 hahy-uh-lin, ˈhaɪ ə lɪn. Biochemistry. a horny substance found in hydatid cysts, closely resembling chitin. a structureless, transparent substance found in cartilage, the eye, etc., resulting from the pathological degeneration of tissue.
- 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.
- hymnic — Of, or relating to hymns.
- 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
- ignify — (obsolete) To form into fire.
- ignomy — Obsolete spelling of ignominy.
- incony — fine; delicate; pretty
- infamy — extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act: a time that will live in infamy.
- injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
- inlays — Plural form of inlay.
- inyala — an antelope, Tragelaphus angasii, that is native to South Africa
- jiminy — an expression of surprise (esp in the phrase by jiminy)
- 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.
- jitney — a small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers, originally charging each passenger five cents.