7-letter words containing ly
- beetfly — a muscid fly, Pegomyia hyoscyami: a common pest of beets and mangel-wurzels
- belying — to show to be false; contradict: His trembling hands belied his calm voice.
- beverly — a feminine name
- blackly — drearily; gloomily
- blandly — If you do something blandly, you do it in a calm and quiet way.
- blankly — without expression or understanding: She stared blankly at her inquisitors.
- blately — bashful; shy.
- bleakly — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- blindly — If you say that someone does something blindly, you mean that they do it without having enough information, or without thinking about it.
- blowfly — any of various dipterous flies of the genus Calliphora and related genera that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, carrion, and open wounds: family Calliphoridae
- bluntly — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- boozily — in a boozy manner
- bossily — given to ordering people about; overly authoritative; domineering.
- brambly — having or resembling brambles.
- brashly — impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
- bravely — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- briefly — Something that happens or is done briefly happens or is done for a very short period of time.
- briskly — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- bristly — Bristly hair is thick and rough.
- broadly — You can use broadly to indicate that something is generally true.
- brutely — in a brutish manner
- buirdly — well-built; stocky
- burlily — in burly fashion
- bushfly — any of various small black dipterous flies of Australia, esp Musca vetustissima, that breed in faeces and dung: family Calliphoridae
- calyces — calyx
- calycle — a cup-shaped structure, as in the coral skeleton
- calydon — ancient city in S Aetolia, central Greece
- calypso — A calypso is a song about a current subject, sung in a style which originally comes from the West Indies.
- calyxes — Botany. the outermost group of floral parts; the sepals.
- campily — in a campy manner
- cannily — in a canny manner
- cantily — In a canty manner.
- capably — having power and ability; efficient; competent: a capable instructor.
- carlyle — Robert. born 1961, Scottish actor; his work includes the television series Cracker and Hamish Macbeth and the films Trainspotting (1996), The Full Monty (1997), The Beach (2000), and 28 Weeks Later (2007)
- carolyn — a feminine name
- cattily — In a catty manner.
- cavally — Caranx hippos, a carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast.
- cecally — through the caecum, the large bowel
- chambly — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- charily — cautiously; carefully
- cheaply — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- cheerly — cheerful or cheerfully
- chiefly — You use chiefly to indicate that a particular reason, emotion, method, or feature is the main or most important one.
- childly — childlike; childish
- cicelys — a female given name, form of Cecilia.
- civilly — with civility; politely
- cleanly — in a fair manner
- clearly — in a clear, distinct, or obvious manner
- clerkly — of or like a clerk
- closely — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.