3-letter words containing y
- toy — an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- try — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
- tty — teletypewriter
- tye — (in mining) a trough used to separate valuable material from dross
- tyg — a mug with two or more handles
- tyr — the god of strife.
- uey — a U-turn
- uys — Pieter-Dirk. born 1945, South African comedian and satirist, noted for creating the female character Evita Bezuidenhout
- vyc — Vallejo Yacht Club
- vyh — Valley Youth Hockey
- vyl — Vienna Youth Lacrosse
- vyn — Valley Youth Network
- way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- wey — an old British unit of weight of various values, especially 16 stones of 16 pounds each, or 256 pounds.
- why — for what? for what reason, cause, or purpose?: Why did you behave so badly?
- wny — West Newbury Youth
- wry — produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the facial features: a wry grin.
- wyb — Walpole Youth Basketball
- wye — the letter Y, or something having a similar shape.
- wyh — Waltham Youth Hockey
- wyn — Alternative spelling of wynn.
- wyw — Warwick Youth Wrestling
- y2k — Year 2000
- ya- — Yet Another
- yaa — The letter \u064a in the Arabic script.
- yad — a tapered, usually ornamented rod, usually of silver, with the tip of the tapered part forming a fist with the index finger extended, used by the reader of a scroll of the Torah as a place marker.
- yag — a synthetic yttrium aluminum garnet, used for infrared lasers and as a gemstone.
- yah — An upper-class person.
- yak — a loud, hearty laugh.
- yam — the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines of the genus Dioscorea, cultivated for food in warm regions.
- yan — (cardinal, North East England, dialect) one.
- yao — Wade-Giles, Pinyin. a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor (Shun) was a paragon of good government.
- yap — to bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishly; yelp.
- yar — yare (defs 1, 2).
- yas — Nonstandard spelling of yes.
- yat — A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet, no longer in current use.
- yaw — to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
- yay — Yet Another Yacc
- yba — young British artist
- ybb — Youth Baseball Bat
- ybl — Yawkey Baseball League
- yea — to the extent, amount, etc., indicated: The doll is about yay high.
- yed — (intransitive, archaic) To speak; sing.
- yee — (archaic, and, Geordie) you (the people being addressed).
- yeg — Alternative form of yegg.
- yeh — (colloquial, informal) altform yeah1; yes.
- yel — Obsolete spelling of yell.
- yem — (Geordie) alternative spelling of hyem.
- yen — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbreviation: Y.
- yeo — (Southwest England) A stream or ditch.