4-letter words containing y
- spry — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- stey — a ladder
- stye — a circumscribed abscess caused by bacterial infection of the glands on the edge of the eyelid; hordeolum.
- styr — a river in NW Ukraine, flowing N to the Pripet River. 300 miles (480 km) long.
- styx — a river in the underworld, over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon, and by which the gods swore their most solemn oaths.
- sumy — a city in NE Ukraine, NW of Kharkov.
- suny — State University of New York
- sway — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
- syal — Meera (ˈmɪərə). born 1961, British actress and writer of Punjabi origin, who appeared in the TV comedy series Goodness Gracious Me (1998–2001) and The Kumars at No. 42 (2001–06); her screenplays include Bhaji on the Beach (1993)
- sybo — a spring onion
- syce — (in India) a groom; stable attendant.
- syha — Scottish Youth Hostels Association
- syke — sike.
- syl- — syn-
- syli — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Guinea, equal to 100 cauris: replaced the franc in 1972.
- sylk — symbolic link
- sym- — syn-
- syn- — with or together
- sync — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- syne — to rinse; wash out
- syph — syphilis (often preceded by the).
- sys- — syn-
- syst — system
- taky — appealing
- they — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- tidy — neat, orderly, or trim, as in appearance or dress: a tidy room; a tidy person.
- tiny — very small; minute; wee.
- tiyn — a monetary unit of Kazakhstan, worth one-hundredth of a tenge
- toby — Also, Toby, Toby jug. a mug in the form of a stout old man wearing a three-cornered hat.
- tody — any of several small West Indian birds of the family Todidae, related to the motmots and kingfishers, having brightly colored green and red plumage.
- toey — touchy or restive; apprehensive; fractious.
- tony — high-toned; stylish: a tony nightclub.
- tory — a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- towy — of the nature of or resembling the fiber tow.
- toyo — a Japanese straw-like material made out of rice paper and used to make hats
- tray — a coin worth threepence.
- trey — a playing card or a die having three pips.
- troy — expressed or computed in troy weight.
- trye — very good
- ttyl — (chat) talk to you later.
- tuny — having an easily discernable melody
- tyee — chinook salmon.
- tyer — a person who ties
- tyke — Australia and New Zealand Informal. a Roman Catholic.
- tymp — a blast furnace outlet through which molten metal flows
- tyne — a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- typ. — typographer
- type — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- typo — typographical error.