6-letter words containing y, i, n
- simony — the making of profit out of sacred things.
- sinewy — having strong sinews: a sinewy back.
- singly — apart from others; separately.
- sinify — to Sinicize.
- skinny — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
- skying — the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth: airplanes in the sky; cloudy skies.
- slingy — denoting a throwing motion which resembles the action of using a sling
- slinky — characterized by or proceeding with slinking or stealthy movements.
- snaily — resembling a snail
- sniffy — inclined to sniff, as in scorn; disdainful; supercilious: He was very sniffy about breaches of etiquette.
- snifty — having a pleasant smell
- snippy — sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
- spying — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- stingy — having a sting.
- stinky — foul smelling; stinking.
- stinty — inadequate, limited, stinted
- swingy — characterized by swing; lively; swinging: swingy dance tunes.
- sylvin — a common mineral, potassium chloride, KCl, colorless to milky-white or red, occurring in crystals, usually cubes, and masses with cubic cleavage, bitter in taste: the most important source of potassium.
- syndic — a person chosen to represent and transact business for a corporation, as a university.
- syrian — of or relating to Syria or its inhabitants.
- syrinx — Ornithology. the vocal organ of birds, situated at or near the bifurcation of the trachea into the bronchi.
- thingy — Facetious. any small item whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- thyine — of or relating to the sandarac tree
- tingly — tingling or causing a tingling sensation.
- tinily — to a tiny degree; minutely
- tinkly — tinkling or producing a tinkling sound.
- tiryns — an ancient city in Greece, in Peloponnesus: destroyed in 486 b.c. by the Argives; excavated ruins include Cyclopean walls forming part of a great fortress.
- toying — an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- trying — extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one's patience and goodwill to the limit: a trying day; a trying experience.
- typing — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- tyrian — of or relating to ancient Tyre or its people.
- tyring — to furnish with tires.
- unmiry — not boggy, marshy, or dirty
- untidy — not tidy or neat; slovenly; disordered: an untidy room; an untidy person.
- vainly — excessively proud of or concerned about one's own appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.; conceited: a vain dandy.
- vanity — excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain; conceit: Failure to be elected was a great blow to his vanity.
- vinery — a place or enclosure in which vines, especially grapevines, are grown.
- vinify — to produce (a type of wine) by vinification: to vinify champagne entirely from white grapes.
- vintry — a place where wine is sold
- vivyan — a male or female given name.
- whiney — complaining; fretful; cranky: The baby is whiny because he missed his nap.
- whingy — complaining peevishly
- whinny — to utter the characteristic cry of a horse; neigh.
- wincey — Linsey-woolsey.
- winery — an establishment for making wine.
- wintry — of or characteristic of winter: wintry blasts; wintry skies.
- witney — a type of blanket or heavy cloth made in Witney, Oxfordshire
- wrying — Present participle of wry.
- yadkin — a part of the Pee Dee River that flows SE through central North Carolina.
- yamani — Sheik Ahmed Zaki [ahkh-med zak-ee] /ˈɑx mɛd ˈzæk i/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Saudi Arabian government official: minister of petroleum and natural resources 1962–86.