5-letter words containing y, n
- natty — neatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance; spruce: a natty white uniform.
- navvy — an unskilled manual laborer.
- nayed — Simple past tense and past participle of nay.
- nebby — (Geordie) Overly inquiring; nosey.
- neddy — British Informal. donkey.
- needy — in a condition of need or want; poverty-stricken; impoverished; extremely poor; destitute.
- nelly — a female given name, form of Helen.
- nerdy — Slang. of or like a nerd.
- nervy — brashly presumptuous or insolent; pushy: a nervy thing to say; a nervy trick to pull.
- nesty — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- netty — Like a net, or network; netted.
- newly — recently; lately: a newly married couple.
- newry — a city and port in Northern Ireland, in Newry and Mourne district, Co Down. Pop: 27 433 (2001)
- newsy — full of news: a nice long newsy letter.
- 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.
- nobby — fashionable or elegant; stylish; chic.
- nobly — in a noble manner.
- noddy — any of several dark-bodied terns of the genera Anous and Micranous found about the coasts and islands in warm seas of both the New and Old Worlds, often so tame as to seem stupid.
- nogay — Nogai.
- 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.
- nokyo — a Japanese agricultural cooperative.
- nonny — (obsolete) A fool.
- nonyl — the hydrocarbon radical -C9H19
- nooby — Like a noob.
- nooky — coitus; sexual intercourse.
- norry — An improvised rail vehicle from Cambodia; a bamboo train.
- nosey — unduly curious about the affairs of others; prying; meddlesome.
- nouny — (of a word) resembling a noun
- noway — in no way, respect, or degree; not at all; nowise: He was noway responsible for the accident.
- nowty — bad-tempered
- noyau — A liqueur made of brandy flavored with fruit kernels.
- noyes — Alfred, 1880–1958, English poet.
- noyon — a town in N France: scene of the coronations of Charlemagne (768) and Hugh Capet (987); birthplace of John Calvin. Pop: 14 471 (1999)
- nubby — having nubs; knobby or lumpy.
- nudgy — of, relating to, or like a nudge or nag.
- nutsy — nutty (defs 3, 4).
- nutty — abounding in or producing nuts.
- nyaff — a small or contemptible person
- nyala — an antelope, Tragelaphus angasii, of southeastern Africa, the male of which has a grayish body marked with white stripes.