5-letter words containing y
- beany — Resembling or characteristic of beans.
- beaty — (of music) having a strong rhythm
- becky — a female given name, form of Rebecca.
- bedye — to dye
- beefy — Someone, especially a man, who is beefy has a big body and large muscles.
- beery — If a person, especially a man, is described as beery, they have drunk a lot of beer.
- beigy — resembling the colour beige
- belay — to make fast (a line) by securing to a pin, cleat, or bitt
- belly — The belly of a person or animal is their stomach or abdomen. In British English, this is an informal or literary use.
- belyi — Andrei (ʌnˈdreɪ), real name Boris Nikolayevich Bugaev. 1880–1934, Russian poet, novelist, and critic: a leading exponent of symbolism. His novels include Petersburg (1913)
- bendy — A bendy object bends easily into a curved or angled shape.
- benny — an amphetamine tablet, esp benzedrine: a stimulant
- benty — relating to bentgrass
- beray — to soil, dirty, defile
- bercy — a white sauce flavored with white wine, shallots, fish stock, and parsley: usually served with fish.
- berry — Berries are small, round fruit that grow on a bush or a tree. Some berries are edible, for example blackberries and raspberries.
- beryl — a white, blue, yellow, green, or pink mineral, found in coarse granites and igneous rocks. It is a source of beryllium and is sometimes used as a gemstone; the green variety is emerald, the blue is aquamarine. Composition: beryllium aluminium silicate. Formula: Be3Al2Si6O18. Crystal structure: hexagonal
- betsy — a feminine name
- betty — a type of short crowbar
- beuys — Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf). 1921–86, German artist, a celebrated figure of the avant-garde, noted esp for his sculptures made of felt and animal fat
- bevvy — If you have a few bevvies, you have a few alcoholic drinks.
- beyle — Marie Henri [ma-ree ahn-ree] /maˈri ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA) real name of Stendhal.
- bialy — (in Polish Ashkenazi cuisine) a type of bagel
- biccy — a biscuit
- biddy — If someone describes an old woman as an old biddy, they are saying in an unkind way that they think she is silly or unpleasant.
- biffy — a toilet or outhouse
- biggy — biggie.
- bigly — comfortably habitable
- bilby — a burrowing marsupial of the genus Macrotis of Australia having long pointed ears and grey fur
- bilgy — looking or smelling like bilge water
- billy — A billy or billy club is a short heavy stick which is sometimes used as a weapon by the police.
- bingy — belly.
- bippy — an unspecified part of the anatomy (usually used in the phrase You bet your (sweet) bippy).
- birsy — bristly
- bitsy — very small
- bitty — If you say that something is bitty, you mean that it seems to be formed from a lot of different parts which you think do not fit together or go together well.
- bivvy — a small tent or shelter
- biysk — a city in SW Russia, at the foot of the Altai Mountains. Pop: 216 000 (2005 est)
- bizzy — a policeman
- blowy — windy
- bluey — a blanket
- blype — a small piece of skin, particularly one which has peeled off following sunburn
- blyth — a port in N England, in SE Northumberland, on the North Sea. Pop: 35 691 (2001)
- bobby — A bobby is a British policeman, usually of the lowest rank.
- bogey — A bogey is something or someone that people are worried about, perhaps without much cause or reason.
- boggy — Boggy land is very wet and muddy land.
- bonny — Someone or something that is bonny is attractive and nice to look at.
- booby — an ignorant or foolish person
- boody — to sulk
- boofy — muscular and strong but stupid