6-letter words containing ly
- gladly — feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased: glad about the good news; glad that you are here.
- glegly — quickly; cleverly
- glibly — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
- gluily — In a gluey way.
- glumly — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- glycin — a poisonous crystalline compound, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , used as a photographic developer.
- glyco- — indicating sugar
- glycol — Also called ethylene glycol, ethylene alcohol. a colorless, sweet liquid, C 2 H 6 O 2 , used chiefly as an automobile antifreeze and as a solvent.
- glycyl — of or relating to a glycinic residue present in a polypeptide or protein.
- glyphs — Plural form of glyph.
- gnarly — gnarled.
- goatly — (slang) Having the characteristics of goat.
- goggly — Resembling goggles, used mostly in relation to eyes.
- goodly — of good or substantial size, amount, etc.: a goodly sum.
- googly — a bowled ball that swerves in one direction and breaks in the other.
- gorily — In a gory manner.
- grayly — In a gray way.
- greely — Adolphus Washington, 1844–1935, U.S. general and arctic explorer.
- grimly — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- grisly — gristly.
- grooly — gruesome
- growly — resembling a growl in pitch and harshness: This cold has made my voice growly.
- grumly — in a grum manner
- hackly — rough or jagged, as if hacked: Some minerals break with a hackly fracture.
- hamlyn — Baron Paul. 1926–2001, British businessman and publisher
- handly — Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
- hardly — only just; almost not; barely: We had hardly reached the lake when it started raining. hardly any; hardly ever.
- hazily — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- headly — (archaic) Chief; principal; capital; (of sins) deadly.
- heelys — a brand of training shoes with wheels fitted in the heel to allow them to be used like in-line skates
- helply — (UK dialectal) Aiding; assisting; ready to help; helpful.
- highly — in or to a high degree; extremely: highly amusing; highly seasoned food.
- hokily — In a hokey way.
- holily — in a pious, devout, or sacred manner.
- homely — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homily — a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature.
- hostly — of or proper to a host: the hostly qualities of consideration and generosity.
- hourly — of, pertaining to, occurring, or done each successive hour: hourly news reports.
- hubbly — of uneven surface; rough: hubbly ice; a hubbly road.
- hugely — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- humbly — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- jangly — to produce a harsh, discordant sound, as two comparatively small, thin, or hollow pieces of metal hitting together: The charms on her bracelet jangle as she moves.
- jiggly — tending to jiggle or marked by a jiggling movement.
- jimply — slender; trim; delicate.
- jingly — to make clinking or tinkling sounds, as do coins, keys, or other light, resonant metal objects when coming into contact or being struck together repeatedly: The keys on his belt jingled as he walked.
- jokily — lacking in seriousness; frivolous: The editorial had an offensively jokey tone for such an important subject.
- jubbly — (slang) female breast.
- jumbly — Jumbled; haphazardly arranged.
- jungly — resembling or suggesting a jungle.
- justly — in a just manner; honestly; fairly: Deal justly with the prisoners.