4-letter words containing y
- avay — Eye dialect of away.
- away — If someone or something moves or is moved away from a place, they move or are moved so that they are no longer there. If you are away from a place, you are not in the place where people expect you to be.
- awfy — awfully, extremely
- awny — having awns
- awry — If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.
- ayah — (in the East, Africa, and other parts of the former British Empire) a maidservant, nursemaid, or governess, esp one of Indian or Malay origin
- ayas — Plural form of aya.
- ayat — A verse of the Quran.
- ayer — Sir Alfred Jules. 1910–89, English positivist philosopher, noted particularly for his antimetaphysical work Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)
- ayes — yes.
- ayin — the 16th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (ע), originally a pharyngeal fricative, that is now silent and transliterated by a raised inverted comma (`)
- ayme — Marcel (marsɛl). 1902–67, French writer: noted for his light and witty narratives
- ayre — air1 (def 8d).
- ayuh — (rural New England, especially Maine) Yes; an expression of affirmation.
- azym — unleavened bread
- baby — A baby is a very young child, especially one that cannot yet walk or talk.
- baya — a common weaverbird, Ploceus philippinus, of India.
- baye — to bathe
- bayo — a pinto or chili bean.
- bays — Plural form of bay.
- bely — Andrei [uhn-dryey] /ʌnˈdryeɪ/ (Show IPA), (Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev) 1880–1934, Russian writer.
- bevy — A bevy of people is a group of people all together in one place.
- bkcy — bankruptcy
- blay — a small European river fish, Leuciscus alburnus
- body — Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
- bogy — an imaginary evil being or spirit; goblin
- bony — Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones.
- boxy — Something that is boxy is similar to a square in shape and usually plain.
- boyd — Arthur. 1920–99, Australian painter and sculptor, noted for his large ceramic sculptures and his series of engravings
- boyf — a boyfriend
- boyg — a troll-like creature; an ogre
- boyo — a boy or young man: often used in direct address
- bray — When a donkey brays, it makes a loud harsh sound.
- btry — battery (of artillery)
- buoy — A buoy is a floating object that is used to show ships and boats where they can go and to warn them of danger.
- bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
- busy — A busy time is a period of time during which you have a lot of things to do.
- byer — Sports. in a tournament, the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round: The top three seeded players received byes in the first round.
- byes — near to or next to: a home by a lake.
- byng — George, Viscount Torrington. 1663–1733, British admiral: defeated fleet of James Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, off Scotland (1708); defeated Spanish fleet off Messina (1717)
- byob — bring your own beer
- byod — BYOD is the practice of allowing employees to use their own computers and smart phones to connect to company information. BYOD is an abbreviation for 'bring your own device'.
- byrd — Richard Evelyn. 1888–1957, US rear admiral, aviator, and polar explorer
- byre — A byre is a cowshed.
- byte — In computing, a byte is a unit of storage approximately equivalent to one printed character.
- cady — Alternative spelling of kady.
- cagy — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
- caky — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
- cany — resembling or made of cane
- cary — (Arthur) Joyce (Lunel). 1888–1957, British novelist; author of Mister Johnson (1939), A House of Children (1941), and The Horse's Mouth (1944)