5-letter words containing y
- cyrix — (company) A microprocessor manufacturer. They produce an Intel 486 equivalent - the Cy486SLC and a Pentium equivalent - the Cyrix 6x86.
- cyrus — known as Cyrus the Great or Cyrus the Elder. died ?529 bc, king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire
- cyst- — cysto-
- cysts — Plural form of cyst.
- cyto- — indicating a cell
- cytol — Cytological.
- cyton — the central part of a neuron
- d'you — D'you is a shortened form of 'do you' or 'did you', used in spoken English.
- d-day — You can use D-day to refer to the day that is chosen for the beginning of an important activity.
- daddy — Children often call their father daddy.
- daffy — If you describe a person or thing as daffy, you mean that they are strange or foolish, but in a rather attractive way.
- daggy — untidy; dishevelled
- daily — If something happens daily, it happens every day.
- dairy — A dairy is a shop or company that sells milk and food made from milk, such as butter, cream, and cheese.
- daisy — A daisy is a small wild flower with a yellow centre and white petals.
- daley — Richard J(oseph) 1902–76, U.S. politician: mayor of Chicago 1955–76.
- dally — If you dally, you act or move very slowly, wasting time.
- dalny — former Russian name of Dalian (def 2).
- dammy — Alternative form of damme.
- dampy — damp or moist
- danby — 1st Earl of, title of Thomas Osborne. 1631–1712, English politician; Lord Treasurer (1673–78): regarded as the founder of the Tory party
- dancy — (of music) appropriate for dancing
- dandy — A dandy is a man who thinks a great deal about his appearance and always dresses in smart clothes.
- danny — the hand (used esp when addressing children)
- darby — Abraham. 1677–1717, British iron manufacturer: built the first coke-fired blast furnace (1709)
- darcy — a unit expressing the permeability coefficient of rock
- darky — an offensive word for a Black person
- dashy — intended to draw attention; showy
- dasyu — a member of the Asuras, survivors of the ancient culture of Harappa: defeated by Indra.
- dauby — Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.
- davys — John, Davis, John.
- dayak — Dyak
- dayan — a senior rabbi, esp one who sits in a religious court
- daych — to thatch
- dayer — (in combination) Something lasting a specified number of days.
- daynt — a thing or condition that is extravagant or best
- dayum — (slang, emphatic) eye dialect of damn, representing Southern US.
- dealy — (US, slang) An object, especially a gadget, whose name the speaker currently cannot recall.
- deary — a term of affection: now often sarcastic or facetious
- debby — relating to or resembling a debutante
- debye — Peter Joseph Wilhelm. 1884–1966, Dutch chemist and physicist, working in the US: Nobel prize for chemistry (1936) for his work on dipole moments
- decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
- decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
- decry — If someone decries an idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
- decyl — a group of isomeric univalent radicals, C 10 H 21 , derived from the decanes by removing one hydrogen atom.
- deedy — hard-working, busy, eager, and tireless
- defly — Obsolete form of deftly.
- deify — If someone is deified, they are considered to be a god or are regarded with very great respect.
- deity — A deity is a god or goddess.
- delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.