6-letter words containing y, n
- entity — A thing with distinct and independent existence.
- envoys — Plural form of envoy.
- enzyme — A substance produced by a living organism that acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction.
- eponym — A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.
- eryngo — A plant of the genus Eryngium.
- esnecy — the right of the eldest daughter to make the first choice when dividing inheritance
- etymon — A word or morpheme from which a later word is derived.
- euonym — (rare) A name well suited to a person, place or thing so named.
- evelyn — masculine name
- evenly — So as to make flat.
- exonym — A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.
- eyeing — Present participle of eye.
- fainly — in a willing or eager manner
- fainty — feeling faint; about to lose consciousness.
- fanboy — Sometimes, fanboi. an obsessive male fan, especially of comic books, science fiction, video games, music, or electronic devices: Apple fanboys lined up to buy the new phone.
- faying — Present participle of fay.
- felony — an offense, as murder or burglary, of graver character than those called misdemeanors, especially those commonly punished in the U.S. by imprisonment for more than a year.
- fenway — A park system that incorporates the wetlands in Boston, Massachusetts. Nearby is Fenway Park, the baseball stadium of the Boston Red Sox.
- 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.
- flanny — a shirt made of flannel or flannelette
- flinty — composed of, containing, or resembling flint, especially in hardness.
- flunky — a male servant in livery.
- 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.
- flyman — a stagehand, especially one who operates the apparatus in the flies.
- flymen — Plural form of flyman.
- fondly — in a fond manner; lovingly or affectionately: He looked fondly at his child.
- foonly — 1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC time-sharing system SAIL was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at that time was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding for both the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed greatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. 2. The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colourful personalities. Many people remember the parrot which sat on Poole's shoulder and was a regular companion. 3. Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The first was the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was the computational engine used to create the graphics in the movie "TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but only one was ever made. The effort drained Foonly of its financial resources, and the company turned toward building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines. Unfortunately, these ran not the popular TOPS-20 but a TENEX variant called Foonex; this seriously limited their market. Also, the machines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineering prototypes requiring individual attention from more than usually competent site personnel, and thus had significant reliability problems. Poole's legendary temper and unwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help matters. By the time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly's proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the Mars, and the company never quite recovered. See the Mars entry for the continuation and moral of this story.
- forney — a steam locomotive having no front truck, four driving wheels, and a four-wheeled rear truck.
- franky — a male given name, form of Frank.
- franzy — irritable; peevish
- frenzy — extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.
- 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.
- frypan — (US, Australia, New Zealand) A frying pan.
- fynbos — (botany) Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of Proteaceae, restios and Ericaceae.
- gainly — graceful; comely; handsome.
- gangly — gangling.
- gansey — A sweater or T-shirt.
- gantry — a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.
- gdynia — a seaport in N Poland, on the Gulf of Danzig.
- geminy — a pair
- gensym — (library) /jen'sim/ (From the MacLISP for "generated symbol") To invent a new name for something temporary, in such a way that the name is almost certainly not in conflict with one already in use. The canonical form of a gensym is "Gnnnn" where nnnn represents a number; any LISP hacker would recognise G0093 (for example) as a gensym. Gensymmed names are useful for storing or uniquely identifying crufties.
- gently — kindly; amiable: a gentle manner.
- gentry — wellborn and well-bred people.