5-letter words containing y, i
- milky — of or like milk, especially in appearance or consistency.
- milly — a female given name, form of Milicent or Mildred.
- milty — full of milt
- mimsy — (nonce) A nonce word in w Lewis Carroll's w Jabberwocky combining the senses of
- mincy — excessively particular or fussy, esp with regards to eating
- mingy — mean and stingy; niggardly.
- minny — minnow.
- minty — homosexual.
- minxy — Characteristic of a minx (flirtatious young woman).
- minya — Al (æl ) ; al) city in central Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 179,000
- mirky — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- misly — Raining in very small drops.
- missy — young miss; girl.
- misty — abounding in or clouded by mist.
- mitty — Walter Mitty.
- moity — full of moits.
- myoid — (anatomy) Composed of, or resembling muscle.
- mysia — an ancient country in NW Asia Minor.
- mysid — any member of the malacostracan order Mysidacea, the opossum shrimps, especially of the genus Mysis.
- naily — Full of nails (the fastener).
- nicky — a female given name, form of Nicole.
- niffy — (colloquial) Having a bad smell.
- nifty — attractively stylish or smart: a nifty new dress for Easter.
- nikky — a female given name, form of Nicole.
- nimby — (chiefly, US) Not In My BackYard.
- ninny — a fool or simpleton.
- ninty — Misspelling of ninety.
- nippy — chilly or cold: morning air that feels a bit nippy.
- nirly — shrivelled
- nitry — nitrous; comprising nitre
- nitty — full of nits.
- noily — a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- noisy — abounding in or full of noise: a noisy assembly hall.
- nydia — a female given name.
- omiya — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NW of Tokyo.
- oriya — an Indic language spoken in Odisha, in eastern India.
- piccy — a picture or photograph
- picky — extremely fussy or finicky, usually over trifles.
- piety — reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations: a prayer full of piety.
- piggy — a small or young pig.
- pigmy — Anthropology. a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa. a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.
- pikey — a gypsy or vagrant
- piney — abounding in or covered with pine trees: piny hillsides.
- pinky — pink3 .
- pinny — pinafore: apron
- pippy — (of fruit) containing many pips
- pisay — pisé.
- pisky — a Cornish fairy, thought to bring good luck despite being mischievous
- pissy — soiled with or reeking of urine.
- pithy — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.