4-letter words containing y
- cavy — any small South American hystricomorph rodent of the family Caviidae, esp any of the genus Cavia, having a thickset body and very small tail
- cayo — Lb Latin America A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key.
- cays — Plural form of cay.
- ceyx — a king of Trachis in Thessaly and the husband of Alcyone. He died in a shipwreck and his wife drowned herself in grief
- chay — a plant of the madder family native to India
- city — The City is the part of London where many important financial institutions have their main offices. People often refer to these financial institutions as the City.
- clay — Clay is a kind of earth that is soft when it is wet and hard when it is dry. Clay is shaped and baked to make things such as pots and bricks.
- cley — (obsolete) A claw.
- cloy — to make weary or cause weariness through an excess of something initially pleasurable or sweet
- cmay — (operating system) A microkernel.
- cmyk — (graphics) cyan, magenta, yellow, key. A colour model that describes each colour in terms of the quantity of each secondary colour (cyan, magenta, yellow), and "key" (black) it contains. The CMYK system is used for printing. For mixing of pigments, it is better to use the secondary colours, since they mix subtractively instead of additively. The secondary colours of light are cyan, magenta and yellow, which correspond to the primary colours of pigment (blue, red and yellow). In addition, although black could be obtained by mixing these three in equal proportions, in four-colour printing it always has its own ink. This gives the CMYK model. The K stands for "Key' or 'blacK,' so as not to cause confusion with the B in RGB. Alternative colour models are RGB and HSB.
- cody — William Frederick1846-1917; U.S. plainsman, frontier scout, & showman: called Buffalo Bill
- coky — the solid product resulting from the destructive distillation of coal in an oven or closed chamber or by imperfect combustion, consisting principally of carbon: used chiefly as a fuel in metallurgy to reduce metallic oxides to metals.
- coly — any of the arboreal birds of the genus Colius, family Coliidae, and order Coliiformes, of southern Africa. They have a soft hairlike plumage, crested head, and very long tail
- cony — a rabbit or fur made from the skin of a rabbit
- copy — If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
- cory — any of various freshwater catfish belonging to the South American Corydoras genus
- cosy — A house or room that is cosy is comfortable and warm.
- coty — René Jules Gustave [ruh-ney zhyl gys-tav] /rəˈneɪ ʒül güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1882–1962, president of France 1954–59.
- cowy — of or resembling the nature of a cow; bovine
- coxy — cocky; impudent; arrogant
- coys — artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- cozy — warm and comfortable; snug
- cray — a crayfish
- cryo — (informal) cryoprecipitate.
- csys — Certificate of Sixth Year Studies
- cuny — (nautical) An ordinary seaman.
- cuyp — Aelbert (ˈaːlbert). 1620–91, Dutch painter of landscapes and animals
- cyan — a highly saturated green-blue that is the complementary colour of red and forms, with magenta and yellow, a set of primary colours
- cycl — A frame language.
- cyke — cyclorama (def 2).
- cyle — Alternative form of sile.
- cyma — either of two mouldings having a double curve, part concave and part convex. Cyma recta has the convex part nearer the wall and cyma reversa has the concave part nearer the wall
- cyme — an inflorescence in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems
- cyon — Obsolete spelling of scion.
- cyst — A cyst is a growth containing liquid that appears inside your body or under your skin.
- cyte — Obsolete spelling of city.
- daly — (John) Auˈgustin (ɔˈgʌstɪn ) ; ôgusˈtin) 1838-99; U.S. playwright & theatrical manager
- davy — Sir Humphry. 1778–1829, English chemist who isolated sodium, magnesium, chlorine, and other elements and suggested the electrical nature of chemical combination. He invented the Davy lamp
- daye — Archaic spelling of day.
- days — during the day, esp regularly
- dazy — In a dazed condition.
- defy — If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way.
- demy — a size of printing paper, 171⁄2 by 221⁄2 inches (444.5 × 571.5 mm)
- deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
- desy — Deutsches Electronen Synchrotron Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany.
- dewy — Something that is dewy is wet with dew.
- dexy — Dexedrine.
- deys — Plural form of dey.
- dicy — Alternative spelling of dicey.