5-letter words containing ya
- marya — a female given name, form of Mary.
- mayan — of or relating to the Maya, their culture, or their languages.
- mayas — the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
- mboya — Tom (Thomas Joseph Mboya) 1930–69, African political leader in Kenya.
- minya — Al (æl ) ; al) city in central Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 179,000
- myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- noyau — A liqueur made of brandy flavored with fruit kernels.
- nyaff — a small or contemptible person
- nyala — an antelope, Tragelaphus angasii, of southeastern Africa, the male of which has a grayish body marked with white stripes.
- nyasa — former name of Malawi (def 2).
- nyaya — (in ancient India) a philosophical school emphasizing logical analysis of knowledge, which is considered as deriving from perception, inference, analogy, and reliable testimony.
- omiya — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NW of Tokyo.
- oriya — an Indic language spoken in Odisha, in eastern India.
- oyama — Iwao [ee-wah-aw] /ˈi wɑˌɔ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1916, Japanese field marshal.
- playa — Western U.S. the sandy, salty, or mud-caked flat floor of a desert basin having interior drainage, usually occupied by a shallow lake during or after prolonged, heavy rains.
- qiyas — judgment of an act or belief by application of established principles governing some analogous act or belief.
- rayah — a Christian subject of an Ottoman ruler.
- riyal — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Qatar, equal to 100 dirhams.
- royal — of or relating to a king, queen, or other sovereign: royal power; a royal palace.
- sayao — Bidú [bee-doo;; Portuguese bih-doo] /ˈbi du;; Portuguese bɪˈdu/ (Show IPA), (Balduina de Oliveira Sayão) 1902–1999, Brazilian soprano.
- shaya — a low-growing Indian plant from which is derived a colourfast red fabric dye
- sonya — a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- spyal — a spy
- sunya — that which exists absolutely and without predication.
- tanya — a female given name.
- thuya — thuja.
- tonya — a feminine name: dim. Toni; var. Tonia
- turya — turiya.
- upaya — any device, as a koan, used for purposes of instruction.
- vidya — transcendental knowledge leading toward Brahman.
- wyatt — James, 1746–1813, English architect.
- yaars — Plural form of yaar.
- yabba — a form of methamphetamine
- yabby — a small Australian crayfish, of the genus Cherax, inhabiting streams and water holes.
- yacht — a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.
- yacks — Plural form of yack.
- yadda — Used three times in a row, or in combination with other words, to indicate part of a sentence which would be annoying to include, or which is incomprehensible, or which is just unimportant.
- yager — jaeger (defs 2, 3).
- yagis — Plural form of yagi.
- yagni — You aren't gonna need it
- yahoo — (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
- yajna — A ritual sacrifice with a specific objective.
- yakin — A large Himalayan antelope, Budorcas taxicolor.
- yakka — work, especially hard work.
- yakky — (informal) chatty, talkative.
- yakow — a hybrid animal, produced by crossbreeding yaks with cows.
- yakut — a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.
- yales — Plural form of yale.
- yalow — Rosalyn (Sussman) [roz-uh-lin suhs-muh n] /ˈrɒz ə lɪn ˈsʌs mən/ (Show IPA), 1921–2011, U.S. medical physicist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1977.
- yalta — a seaport in the Crimea, S Ukraine, on the Black Sea: site of wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin February 4–12, 1945.