6-letter words containing y
- baying — a deep, prolonged howl, as of a hound on the scent.
- baykal — Lake Baikal
- baylis — Lillian Mary. 1874–1937, British theatre manager: founded the Old Vic (1912) and the Sadler's Wells company for opera and ballet (1931)
- baylor — Elgin, born 1934, U.S. basketball player.
- bayman — a person who lives by a bay, esp one who is skilled in navigating it
- baymen — Plural form of bayman.
- bayous — Plural form of bayou.
- bayyan — an official declaration
- bbsydp — Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme
- beachy — covered with gentle sandy slopes
- beardy — wearing a beard
- bearly — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears; ursine.
- beasty — Alternative form of beastie.
- beatty — David, 1st Earl Beatty. 1871–1936, British admiral of the fleet in World War I
- beauty — Beauty is the state or quality of being beautiful.
- beechy — Of or relating to beech trees.
- bekesy — Georg von (ˈɡeːɔrk fɔn). 1899–1972, US physicist, born in Hungary; noted for his work on the mechanism of hearing: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1961
- belady — to call (someone) a lady
- belamy — a close friend
- belaya — a river in S Russia, flowing generally NW from the Urals to the Kama River. 880 miles (1416 km) long.
- belfry — The belfry of a church is the top part of its tower, where the bells are.
- bellay — Joachim du (ʒɔaʃɛ̃ dy). 1522–60, French poet, a member of the Pléiade
- beltsy — a city in NW Moldavia, NW of Kishinev.
- benchy — (of a hillside) hollowed out in benches
- benday — to produce using the Ben Day process
- benzyl — of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group C6H5CH2–
- bepity — to feel great pity for
- berley — bait scattered on water to attract fish
- berwyn — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- betony — a Eurasian plant, Stachys (or Betonica) officinalis, with a spike of reddish-purple flowers, formerly used in medicine and dyeing: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- betray — If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.
- bewray — to divulge; reveal; betray
- bexley — a borough of SE Greater London. Pop: 219 100 (2003 est). Area: 61 sq km (23 sq miles)
- beylic — a province ruled over by a bey
- beyond — If something is beyond a place or barrier, it is on the other side of it.
- bieldy — sheltered
- bigamy — Bigamy is the crime of marrying a person when you are already legally married to someone else.
- bigeye — any tropical or subtropical red marine percoid fish of the family Priacanthidae, having very large eyes and rough scales
- binary — Binary describes something that has two different parts.
- binchy — Maeve (meɪˈɪv). 1940–2012, Irish novelist and journalist; her bestselling novels include Circle of Friends (1990) and Quentins (2002)
- binyon — (Robert) Laurence. 1869–1943, British poet and art historian, best known for his elegiac war poems "For the Fallen" (1914) and "The Burning of the Leaves" (1944)
- biopsy — A biopsy is the removal and examination of fluids or tissue from a patient's body in order to discover why they are ill.
- biscay — Bay ofpart of the Atlantic, on the N coast of Spain & the W coast of France
- bisley — a village in SE England, in Surrey: annual meetings of the National Rifle Association
- bisync — Binary Synchronous Transmission
- bitchy — If someone is being bitchy or is making bitchy remarks, they are saying unkind things about someone.
- blabby — overly talkative
- blacky — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- blakey — Art, full name Arthur Blakey. (1919–90), US Black jazz drummer and leader of the Jazz Messengers band
- blanky — a comfort blanket