6-letter words containing yr
- -phyre — a porphyritic rock
- amyrin — (organic compound) Either of two isomeric triterpenoids found in some vegetable oils and resins.
- anadyr — a town in Russia, in NE Siberia at the mouth of the Anadyr River; the capital of Chukot Autonomous Okrug. Pop: 11 038 (2002)
- atyrau — a port city in W Kazakhstan, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea.
- byrnes — James Francis, 1879–1972, U.S. statesman and jurist: secretary of state 1945–47.
- byrnie — a coat of mail; hauberk.
- byroad — a secondary or side road
- byroom — a private room
- byrrus — birrus.
- chyron — a text-based graphic overlay displayed at the bottom of a television screen or film frame, as closed captioning or the crawl of a newscast.
- cosyra — ancient name of Pantelleria.
- cyrene — an ancient Greek city of N Africa, near the coast of Cyrenaica: famous for its medical school
- elyria — city in N Ohio, near Cleveland: pop. 56,000
- eyries — Plural form of eyrie.
- freyre — Gilberto [zhil-ber-too] /ʒɪlˈbɛr tʊ/ (Show IPA), 1900–87, Brazilian sociologist and anthropologist.
- gyrant — having a circular movement
- gyrase — a bacterial enzyme that causes supercoiling of DNA.
- gyrate — to move in a circle or spiral, or around a fixed point; whirl.
- gyrene — a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- gyrkin — (obsolete) A male gyrfalcon.
- gyroid — (mathematics) An infinitely connected periodic minimal surface containing no straight lines.
- gyrons — Plural form of gyron.
- gyrose — marked with wavy lines.
- kyrgyz — a member of a Mongoloid people of central Asia, inhabiting Kyrgyzstan and a vast area of central Siberia
- lyrate — Botany. (of a pinnate leaf) divided transversely into several lobes, the smallest at the base.
- lyrics — The words to a song (or other vocal music).
- lyrids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Lyrid meteor shower) visible April 22 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Lyra.
- lyrism — lyricism.
- lyrist — a person who plays the lyre or who sings and accompanies himself or herself on the lyre.
- martyr — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- myrdal — Alva (Reimer) [al-vuh rey-mer;; Swedish ahl-vah rey-muh r] /ˈæl və ˈreɪ mər;; Swedish ˈɑl vɑ ˈreɪ mər/ (Show IPA), 1902–86, Swedish sociologist and diplomat: Nobel Peace Prize 1982 (wife of Gunnar Myrdal).
- myria- — indicating a very great number
- myriad — a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things.
- myrica — the bark of the wax myrtle.
- myrrha — Classical Mythology. a daughter of King Cinyras of Cyprus who had incestuous relations with her father and was changed into a myrrh tree by the gods. Their child, Adonis, was born from the split trunk of the tree.
- myrtle — a female given name.
- pyrene — a polycyclic, aromatic crystalline hydrocarbon, C 1 6 H 1 0 , consisting of four fused benzene rings, found in coal tar and believed to be carcinogenic.
- pyrite — a very common brass-yellow mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , with a metallic luster, burned to sulfur dioxide in the manufacture of sulfuric acid: chemically similar to marcasite, but crystallizing in the isometric system.
- pyrone — either of two heterocyclic ketones having the formula C 5 H 4 O 2 .
- pyrope — a mineral, magnesium-aluminum garnet, Mg 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 2 , occurring in crystals of varying shades of red, and frequently used as a gem.
- pyrrha — the wife of Deucalion, saved with him from the flood loosed upon mankind by Zeus
- pyrrho — c365–c275 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- satyra — a female satyr
- scyros — a Greek island in the W Aegean: the largest island of the Northern Sporades. 81 sq. mi. (210 sq. km).
- skyros — a Greek island in the W Aegean: the largest island of the Northern Sporades. 81 sq. mi. (210 sq. km).
- smyrna — former name of Izmir.
- styrax — any tropical or subtropical tree of the genus Styrax, which includes the storaxes
- styria — a province in SE Austria: formerly a duchy. 6327 sq. mi. (16,385 sq. km). Capital: Graz.
- styron — William, 1925–2006, U.S. author.
- syriac — a form of Aramaic used by various Eastern Churches.
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