6-letter words containing ly
- rumply — rumpled or tending to rumple: This suit always looks rumply.
- safely — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- sagely — a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- saltly — in the manner of salt
- salyut — one of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting space stations, first launched in 1971.
- samely — monotonous
- sanely — free from mental derangement; having a sound, healthy mind: a sane person.
- sawfly — any of numerous hymenopterous insects of the family Tenthredinidae, the female of which has a sawlike ovipositor for inserting the eggs in the tissues of a host plant.
- scally — a rascal; rogue
- seemly — fitting or becoming with respect to propriety or good taste; decent; decorous: Your outburst of rage was hardly seemly.
- sexily — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
- shelly — abounding in shells: a shelly surf.
- shoaly — full of shoals or shallows.
- sicily — an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean. 9924 sq. mi. (25,705 sq. km). Capital: Palermo.
- sickly — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- simply — in a simple manner; clearly and easily.
- singly — apart from others; separately.
- skeely — skilful
- skelly — a whitefish, Coregonus stigmaticus, of certain lakes in the Lake District
- skilly — a thin soup or gruel
- skolly — a Coloured hooligan, usually one of a gang
- slowly — in a slow manner; at a slow speed: Sauté the peppers slowly. I drove slowly back home.
- slyest — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- slyish — somewhat sly
- smelly — emitting a strong or unpleasant odor; reeking.
- smugly — contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.
- snaily — resembling a snail
- snarly — full of knotty snarls; tangled.
- snelly — in a sharp or snell manner
- snugly — warmly comfortable or cozy, as a place, accommodations, etc.: a snug little house.
- softly — yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.
- solely — as the only one or ones: solely responsible.
- solyom — Laszlo. born 1942, Hungarian politician, president of Hungary (2005–10)
- sorely — in a painful manner.
- sourly — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- sozzly — wet
- spryly — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- stably — not likely to fall or give way, as a structure, support, foundation, etc.; firm; steady.
- steely — consisting or made of steel.
- stilly — quietly; silently.
- stooly — Slang. stool pigeon (def 2).
- studly — Slang. virilely attractive; muscular and handsome.
- suably — in a suable manner
- subtly — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- supply — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- surely — firmly; unerringly; without missing, slipping, etc.
- swally — an alcoholic drink
- swirly — swirling, whirling, or twisted.
- tallys — Thomas, c1505–85, English organist and composer, especially of church music.
- tamely — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.