5-letter words containing ye
- mayer — Julius Robert von [jool-yuh s rob-ert von;; German yoo-lee-oo s roh-bert fuh n] /ˈdʒul yəs ˈrɒb ərt vɒn;; German ˈyu li ʊs ˈroʊ bɛrt fən/ (Show IPA), 1814–78, German physicist.
- meyer — Adolf, 1866–1950, U.S. psychiatrist, born in Switzerland.
- myel- — the spinal cord or bone marrow
- myers — L(eopold) H(amilton). 1881–1944, British novelist, best known for his novel sequence The Near and the Far (1929–40)
- nayed — Simple past tense and past participle of nay.
- noyes — Alfred, 1880–1958, English poet.
- oxeye — any of several composite plants, especially of the genera Heliopsis and Buphthalum, having ray flowers surrounding a conspicuous disk.
- oyers — oyer and terminer.
- payed — to coat or cover (seams, a ship's bottom, etc.) with pitch, tar, or the like.
- payee — a person to whom a check, money, etc., is payable.
- payer — the act of paying or being paid; payment.
- plyer — pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- pryer — a person who pries; a curious or inquisitive person.
- rayed — having or represented as having emanating rays; radiate: The saint was painted with a rayed, beatific face.
- redye — a coloring material or matter.
- reyes — Point, a promontory in Marin County, on the coast of N California, NW of San Francisco: national seashore.
- sayed — (in Islamic countries) a supposed descendant of Muhammad through his grandson Hussein, the second son of his daughter Fatima.
- sayer — to utter or pronounce; speak: What did you say? I said “Hello!”.
- selye — Hans, 1907–82, Canadian physician and medical educator, born in Austria.
- seyen — a scion
- shyer — bashful; retiring.
- skyer — a lofty hit of a cricket ball
- skyey — of or from the sky.
- soyer — Moses1899-1974; U.S. painter, born in Russia
- syene — ancient name of Aswan.
- toyed — an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- tuyer — an opening through which the blast of air enters a blast furnace, cupola, forge, or the like, to facilitate combustion.
- upbye — over there; a bit farther
- wryer — Comparative form of wry.
- wyeth — Andrew Newell [noo-uh l,, nyoo-] /ˈnu əl,, ˈnyu-/ (Show IPA), 1917–2009, U.S. painter.
- ye-ye — of, relating to, or characteristic of the rock-'n'-roll music, fashions, entertainment, etc., of the 1960s, especially in France.
- yealm — to prepare (straw) for thatching
- yeans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yean.
- yeard — (archaic) Alternative form of yard.
- yeare — Obsolete spelling of year.
- yearn — to have an earnest or strong desire; long: to yearn for a quiet vacation.
- years — Plural form of year.
- yeast — any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- yeats — William Butler, 1865–1939, Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1923.
- yecch — Alternative spelling of yech.
- yechy — yucky.
- yeere — Obsolete spelling of year.
- yeggs — Plural form of yegg.
- yeild — Misspelling of yield.
- yeisk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Sea of Azov.
- yells — Plural form of yell.
- yelps — Plural form of yelp.
- yemen — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
- yenan — Wade-Giles. Yanan.
- yenta — a person, especially a woman, who is a busybody or gossip.