6-letter words containing y
- augury — An augury is a sign of what will happen in the future.
- aumbry — ambry.
- auntly — of or like an aunt
- aurify — to turn into gold
- aviary — An aviary is a large cage or covered area in which birds are kept.
- avidly — showing great enthusiasm for or interest in: an avid moviegoer. Synonyms: enthusiastic, ardent, keen; devoted, dedicated; zealous, fanatic. Antonyms: indifferent, apathetic; reluctant.
- avidya — ignorance of the identity of oneself with Brahman, resulting in imprisonment within the cycle of birth and death.
- avowry — a plea by a defendant in an action of replevin who admits taking the distrained goods and shows just cause for the taking.
- avoyer — a former chief Swiss magistrate of an imperial city
- aweary — weary; tired (of)
- ayande — a male given name: from a Yoruba word meaning “we gave praises and he came.”.
- ayesha — Aisha
- ayinde — a male given name: from a Yoruba word meaning “we gave praises and he came.”.
- aymara — a member of a South American Indian people of Bolivia and Peru
- ayword — a password, watchword
- azerty — QWERTY
- azodye — Alternative spelling of azo dye.
- azygos — a biological structure not in a pair
- babbly — babbling; chatty; talkative
- badley — Misspelling of badly.
- baetyl — a meteoric stone thought in antiquity to be of divine origin, and sometimes worshipped
- baeyer — Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von (joˈhan ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈaːdɔlf fɔn). 1835–1917, German chemist, noted for the synthesis of indigo: Nobel prize for chemistry 1905
- bagley — William Chandler, 1874–1946, U.S. educator and writer.
- bailey — the outermost wall or court of a castle
- bakery — A bakery is a building where bread, pastries, and cakes are baked, or the shop where they are sold.
- baldly — having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person.
- ballsy — You can describe a person or their behaviour as ballsy if you admire them because you think they are energetic and brave.
- baniya — Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
- banyak — Alternative form of baniak.
- banyan — a moraceous tree, Ficus benghalensis, of tropical India and the East Indies, having aerial roots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
- barany — Robert. 1876–1936, Austrian physician; devised the Bárány test, which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1914
- barely — You use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case.
- barfly — A barfly is a person who spends a lot of time drinking in bars
- barley — Barley is a grain that is used to make food, beer, and whisky.
- barney — a noisy argument
- barony — A barony is the rank or position of a baron.
- baryon — any of a class of elementary particles that have a mass greater than or equal to that of the proton, participate in strong interactions, and have a spin of 1⁄2. Baryons are either nucleons or hyperons. The baryon number is the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
- baryta — any of several compounds of barium, esp. barium oxide and barium hydroxide
- basely — morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly.
- basify — to make basic
- batboy — A batboy is a boy whose job is to take care of equipment that belongs to a baseball team.
- bathy- — indicating depth
- batley — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire. Pop: 49 448 (2001)
- bawdry — obscene talk or language
- bawley — a small fishing boat used off the coast of Essex and Kent
- bayamo — a strong wind blowing from land on the southern coast of Cuba, particularly near the city of Bayamo
- bayard — a legendary horse that figures prominently in medieval romance
- bayern — Bavaria
- bayest — reddish brown.
- bayeux — a town in NW France, on the River Aure: its museum houses the Bayeux tapestry and there is a 13th-century cathedral: dairy foods, plastic. Pop: 13 478 (2008)