6-letter words containing y
- adygei — a member of a Circassian people of the Northwest Caucasus
- adytum — the most sacred place of worship in an ancient temple from which the laity was prohibited
- aerify — to change or cause to change into a gas
- aerily — in an aery manner
- affray — An affray is a noisy and violent fight, especially in a public place.
- agedly — in a manner resembling that of an aged person
- agency — An agency is a business which provides a service on behalf of other businesses.
- agouty — agouti.
- aguayo — A rectangular piece of patterned cloth, used in traditional South American communities to carry children, goods, etc.
- airdry — Alternative form of air-dry.
- airily — in a jaunty or high-spirited manner
- airway — A person's airways are the passages from their nose and mouth down to their lungs, through which air enters and leaves their body.
- aíyina — Aegina
- akeley — Carl Ethan, 1864–1926, U.S. naturalist, explorer, and sculptor.
- alanyl — the acyl radical of alanine, found in certain proteins
- albany — a city in E New York State, on the Hudson River: the state capital. Pop: 93 919 (2003 est)
- alcyon — Alternative form of halcyon.
- aliyah — immigration to the Holy Land
- aliyos — the act of proceeding to the reading table in a synagogue for the reading of a portion from the Torah.
- aliyot — the act of proceeding to the reading table in a synagogue for the reading of a portion from the Torah.
- alkoxy — denoting an alkyl group bonded to an oxygen atom
- alkyds — Plural form of alkyd.
- alkyne — any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon with a carbon–carbon triple bond
- allays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allay.
- alleys — Plural form of alley.
- alloys — Plural form of alloy.
- allyou — all of you
- almaty — a city in SE Kazakhstan; capital of Kazakhstan (1991–97): an important trading centre. Pop: 1 103 000 (2005 est)
- almery — a cupboard built into a church wall used for storing sacred oils, church vessels, and other similar items
- alphyl — a univalent aromatic radical
- always — If you always do something, you do it whenever a particular situation occurs. If you always did something, you did it whenever a particular situation occurred.
- alyson — a female given name, form of Alice.
- ambary — a tropical Asian malvaceous plant, Hibiscus cannabinus, that yields a fibre similar to jute
- ambery — of, relating to or resembling amber
- amycus — a son of Poseidon and one of the Meliae, known for his ruthlessness and his skill at boxing.
- amylic — relating to or derived from amyl
- amylin — (carbohydrate) The dextrin of starch.
- amylo- — indicating starch
- amylum — starch
- amyrin — (organic compound) Either of two isomeric triterpenoids found in some vegetable oils and resins.
- amytal — a barbiturate, a brand of amobarbital, used as a sedative and hypnotic
- anadyr — a town in Russia, in NE Siberia at the mouth of the Anadyr River; the capital of Chukot Autonomous Okrug. Pop: 11 038 (2002)
- anally — of, pertaining to, involving, or near the anus.
- anancy — a character in Caribbean folklore, a cunning trickster generally depicted as a spider with a human head; the subject of many Anancy stories, the character has its origins among the Ashanti of W Africa
- ananym — (obsolete) A pseudonym derived by spelling one's name backwards; see anagram.
- anbury — a soft spongy tumour occurring in horses and oxen
- ancony — A piece of malleable iron that is wrought into the shape of a flat bar, about three feet long, with a square rough unwrought knob on each end.
- anergy — lack of energy
- angary — the right of a belligerent state to use the property of a neutral state or to destroy it if necessary, subject to payment of full compensation to the owners
- angiya — a short-sleeved bodice that ends just below the breasts, worn by Muslim women in India.