4-letter words containing y
- many — constituting or forming a large number; numerous: many people.
- mary — (Mary Stuart) 1542–87, queen of Scotland 1542–67; beheaded for plotting to assassinate her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
- maty — (archaic) A native house servant in India.
- maya — the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
- mayo — Charles Horace, 1865–1939, and his brother William James, 1861–1939, U.S. surgeons.
- mayr — Ernst, 1904–2005, U.S. zoologist and evolutionary theorist, born in Germany.
- mays — the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
- mazy — full of confusing turns, passages, etc.; like a maze; labyrinthine.
- mery — Obsolete form of merry.
- miny — Of or resembling a mine.
- miry — of the nature of mire; swampy: miry ground.
- misy — (mineralogy) An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.
- mity — Having mites.
- mixy — adjusted or modified to allow mixing
- moby — (British, slang) a mobile phone.
- mody — (dated) modish; fashionable.
- moky — (obsolete) misty; dark; murky.
- moly — an herb given to Odysseus by Hermes to counteract the spells of Circe.
- mopy — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
- moya — Mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions.
- mozy — Shaggy; hairy.
- muny — municipal; operated by a municipal government: a muni bus company.
- myal — of or relating to muscle tissue
- myc- — myco-
- myna — any of several Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae, especially those of the genera Acridotheres and Gracula, certain species of which have the ability to mimic speech and are kept as pets.
- myo- — muscle
- myob — (chat) mind your own business.
- myra — an ancient city in SW Asia Minor, in Lycia.
- myth — a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
- nagy — Imre [im-re] /ˈɪm rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1958, Hungarian political leader: premier 1953–55, 1956.
- nary — not any; no; never a: nary a sound.
- navy — the whole body of warships and auxiliaries belonging to a country or ruler.
- nays — and not only so but; not only that but also; indeed: many good, nay, noble qualities.
- nixy — Alternative spelling of nixie (female water-elf).
- nosy — unduly curious about the affairs of others; prying; meddlesome.
- nowy — noting a partition line or charge in which one or more curves interrupt a normally straight line or lines, usually halfway along their length: per fess nowy; a cross nowy.
- nuby — An article of clothing similar to a scarf or a shawl.
- nyap — (language) An early system on the IBM 704.
- nyet — (slang, Russian) A Russian no; a negative response.
- nyms — Plural form of nym.
- nyos — Lake, a volcanic lake in Cameroon, at the NW border: eruption 1986.
- nysa — the mountain where Zeus sent the infant Dionysus to protect him from the vindictive wrath of Hera.
- nyse — finance: New York Stock Exchange
- oaky — Describing the taste of wine that has been aged in oak and acquired tannins from the wood.
- oary — oarlike.
- oaty — Containing oats.
- obey — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
- odyl — od.
- ofay — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person.
- oggy — (UK, dialect, Cornwall) A Cornish pasty.