5-letter words containing y, o
- 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)
- nylon — any of a class of thermoplastic polyamides capable of extrusion when molten into fibers, sheets, etc., of extreme toughness, strength, and elasticity, synthesized by the interaction of a dicarboxylic acid with a diamine: used especially for yarn, fabrics, and bristles, as for brushes.
- nyoro — a member of a Negroid people of W Uganda
- o'day — Anita (Anita Belle Colton) 1919–2006, U.S. jazz singer.
- obeys — Comply with the command, direction, or request of (a person or a law); submit to the authority of.
- ochry — ocher.
- octyl — (organic chemistry) Any of very many isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C8H17, formally derived from octane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
- oddly — differing in nature from what is ordinary, usual, or expected: an odd choice.
- odyle — od.
- odyls — od.
- ofays — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person.
- okays — Plural form of okay.
- ology — any science or branch of knowledge.
- omiya — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NW of Tokyo.
- onely — Obsolete spelling of only.
- onery — (US, particularly, Southern US) eye dialect ornery.
- onlay — an overlay, especially one in relief.
- onyon — Obsolete spelling of onion.
- oracy — the ability to express oneself in and understand spoken language.
- orczy — Emmuska [em-moo sh-ko] /ˈɛm mʊʃ kɒ/ (Show IPA), Baroness, 1865–1947, English novelist, born in Hungary.
- oriya — an Indic language spoken in Odisha, in eastern India.
- otary — An eared seal.
- otway — Thomas, 1652–85, English dramatist.
- oudry — Jean-Baptiste (ʒɑ̃batist). 1686–1755, French rococo painter and tapestry designer, noted esp for animal and hunting scenes
- oundy — wavy or curly
- outby — outside or outlying
- ovary — Anatomy, Zoology. the female gonad or reproductive gland, in which the ova and the hormones that regulate female secondary sex characteristics develop.
- oxeye — any of several composite plants, especially of the genera Heliopsis and Buphthalum, having ray flowers surrounding a conspicuous disk.
- oyama — Iwao [ee-wah-aw] /ˈi wɑˌɔ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1916, Japanese field marshal.
- oyers — oyer and terminer.
- payor — A payor is a person who makes a payment.
- peeoy — a homemade firework
- peony — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Paeonia, having large, showy flowers, as the widely cultivated species P. lactiflora: the state flower of Indiana.
- phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- ploys — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- poboy — poor boy.
- pocky — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or covered with pocks.
- poddy — a newborn or unweaned calf, especially one that is taken from its mother and hand-fed.
- podgy — pudgy.
- poesy — the work or the art of poetic composition.
- pogey — Slang.. Also, pogy. a package of food, candy, or other treats sent to a child at boarding school, a person in an institution, etc. candy or a treat.
- pokey — a jail
- poley — (of cattle) hornless or polled
- polly — a tame parrot.
- poly- — Poly- is used to form adjectives and nouns which indicate that many things or types of something are involved in something. For example, a polysyllabic word contains many syllables.
- polyp — Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
- pommy — a British person, especially one who is a recent immigrant.
- ponty — a rod used for shaping molten glass