4-letter words containing y
- etym — An etymon.
- eyam — a village in N central England, in Derbyshire. When plague reached the village in 1665 the inhabitants, led by the Rev. Mompesson, isolated themselves to prevent it spreading further: as a result most of them died, including Mompesson's family
- eyas — A young hawk, especially (in falconry) an unfledged nestling taken from the nest for training.
- eyed — Having eyes.
- eyen — (dialectal, or, obsolete) Plural form of eye.
- eyer — One who eyes another.
- eyes — Plural form of eye.
- eyne — (obsolete) Plural form of eye.
- eyot — (chiefly, British) A little island, especially in a river or lake.
- eyra — A reddish -brown form of the jaguarundi.
- eyre — (UK, legal, obsolete) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).
- eyry — (rare) alternative spelling of eyrie.
- fady — (archaic) faded.
- fany — First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
- faye — a female given name, form of Faith.
- fays — Plural form of fay.
- fery — Eye dialect of very.
- firy — Obsolete form of fiery.
- flay — to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
- fley — to frighten; terrify.
- flye — (weightlifting) An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.
- flys — Plural form of fly (a type of carriage).
- fogy — an excessively conservative or old-fashioned person, especially one who is intellectually dull (usually preceded by old): The board of directors were old fogies still living in the 19th century.
- foxy — foxlike; cunning or crafty; slyly clever.
- foyt — A(nthony) J(oseph, Jr.) born 1935, U.S. racing-car driver.
- fozy — spongy; loose-textured.
- fray — a raveled or worn part, as in cloth: frays at the toes of well-worn sneakers.
- frey — the god of peace, prosperity, and marriage: one of the Vanir, originally brought to Asgard as a hostage.
- frye — (Herman) Northrop, 1912–91, Canadian literary critic and educator.
- fumy — emitting or full of fumes; fumelike.
- fury — unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.
- fyce — feist.
- fyi4 — [Malkin, G., and A. Marine, "FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions", FYI 4, RFC 1325, Xylogics, SRI, May 1992.]
- fyke — a bag-shaped fish trap.
- fyle — (Scotland, transitive) Alternative form of file.
- fyrd — the militia in Anglo-Saxon England.
- gaby — a fool.
- gamy — having the tangy flavor or odor of game: I like the gamy taste of venison.
- gapy — Veterinary Pathology. a parasitic disease of poultry and other birds, characterized by frequent gaping due to infestation of the trachea and bronchi with gapeworms.
- gary — Elbert Henry, 1846–1927, U.S. financier and lawyer.
- gaya — a city in central Bihar, in NE India: Hindu center of pilgrimage.
- gaye — Marvin. 1939–84, US soul singer and songwriter; recordings include "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1969), What's Going On (1971), and "Sexual Healing" (1982): shot dead by his father
- gays — Plural form of gay.
- gazy — tending to gaze
- gery — (obsolete) changeable; fickle.
- ghey — (Internet, slang, pejorative) alternative spelling of gay or deliberate misspelling of gay (homosexual).
- giyf — (chat, web) Google Is Your Friend. See STFW.
- gley — a mottled soil in which iron compounds have been oxidized and reduced by intermittent water saturation.
- glyn — Elinor, 1864–1943, English writer.
- goby — any small marine or freshwater fish of the family Gobiidae, often having the pelvic fins united to form a suctorial disk.