5-letter words containing y
- booky — bookish
- boomy — characterized by an exaggerated or excessive bass sound
- booty — Booty is a collection of valuable things stolen from a place, especially by soldiers after a battle.
- boozy — A boozy person is someone who drinks a lot of alcohol.
- borty — low-quality diamond, in granular aggregate or small fragments, valuable only in crushed or powdered form, especially for industrial use as an abrasive.
- bosky — containing or consisting of bushes or thickets
- bossy — If you describe someone as bossy, you mean that they enjoy telling people what to do.
- bothy — a cottage or hut
- botty — the buttocks
- bousy — drunken; boozy
- boxty — a potato pancake
- boyar — a member of an old order of Russian nobility, ranking immediately below the princes: abolished by Peter the Great
- boyau — a minor connecting trench often built in a zigzag pattern
- boyce — William. ?1710–79, English composer, noted esp for his church music and symphonies
- boyer — Charles (ʃarl), known as the Great Lover. 1899–1978, French film actor
- boyla — an Aboriginal Australian magician or medicine-man
- boyle — Robert. 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
- boyne — a river in the E Republic of Ireland, rising in the Bog of Allen and flowing northeast to the Irish Sea: William III of England defeated the deposed James II in a battle (Battle of the Boyne) on its banks in 1690, completing the overthrow of the Stuart cause in Ireland. Length: about 112 km (70 miles)
- boysy — suited to or typical of boys or young men
- brady — Mathew B. (ˈmæθju ) ; mat hˈyo̅o) 1823?-96; U.S. photographer, esp. of Lincoln & the Civil War
- braky — overgrown with brambles or ferns
- braxy — an acute and usually fatal bacterial disease of sheep characterized by high fever, coma, and inflammation of the fourth stomach, caused by infection with Clostridium septicum
- briny — of or resembling brine; salty
- brosy — coated with brose
- bryan — a masculine name
- bryce — Viscount James1838-1922; Eng. jurist, statesman, & historian, born in Ireland
- bubby — a woman's breast
- buddy — A buddy is a close friend, usually a male friend of a man.
- buffy — of a dull yellow or yellowish-brown colour
- buggy — A buggy is the same as a baby buggy.
- bulgy — having a bulge or bulges
- bulky — Something that is bulky is large and heavy. Bulky things are often difficult to move or deal with.
- bully — A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
- bumpy — A bumpy road or path has a lot of bumps on it.
- bundy — a time clock
- bunny — A bunny or a bunny rabbit is a child's word for a rabbit.
- bunty — infected with bunt
- bunya — a tall dome-shaped Australian coniferous tree, Araucaria bidwillii, having edible cones (bunya nuts) and thickish flattened needles
- buppy — a young, upwardly mobile black professional.
- burly — A burly man has a broad body and strong muscles.
- burpy — belching, tending to belch, or feeling like belching: Carbonated beverages make me burpy.
- burry — full of or covered in burs
- busby — a tall fur helmet with a bag hanging from the top to the right side, worn by certain soldiers, usually hussars, as in the British Army
- bushy — Bushy hair or fur is very thick.
- busty — If you describe a woman as busty, you mean that she has large breasts.
- butty — A butty is a sandwich.
- butyl — of, consisting of, or containing any of four isomeric forms of the group C4H9–
- buyer — A buyer is a person who is buying something or who intends to buy it.
- buyup — an act or instance of buying up: a spectacular buyup of the city's most valuable real estate.
- buzzy — If a place, event, or atmosphere is buzzy, it is lively, interesting, and modern.