5-Letter Words with Y: page 2

All 1,335 five-letter words with Y: page 2 of 4

F

• forty11n. A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.
• foyer11n. Such a space used in a hotel, theater, etc.
• fryer11n. A machine or container for frying food.
• fudgy13adj. Resembling fudge, as in flavor or texture.
• fully11adv. In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.
• funky15adj. Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
• funny11adj. Amusing; humorous; comical.
• furry11adj. Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.
• fussy11adj. Anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please.
• fusty11adj. Moldy or musty.
• fuzzy29adj. Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet...

G

• gabby13adj. Inclined to talk too much.
• gaily9adv. Merrily.
• galey9adj. Characterized by gales of wind.
• gally9adj. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
• gamey11adj. Having the smell, taste and texture of game meat.
• gammy13adj. Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
• gappy13adj. Having many gaps.
• gassy9adj. Having the nature of, or containing, gas.
• gaudy10adj. Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a...
• gauzy18adj. Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.
• gawky16adj. Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement.
• gayle9n. Puerperal septicemia in sheep.
• gayly12adv. Cheerfully; in a gay manner.
• gayne9v. To gain; to avail.
• gemmy13adj. Full of, or covered in, gems.
• genny9n. A person from the suburbs who moves to a low-income urban area.
• germy11adj. That carries germs.
• ghyll12n. A ravine.
• giddy11adj. Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of...
• gifty12adj. Suited to being given as a gift.
• gilly9n. The drink torpedo juice.
• gimpy13adj. Limping, lame, with crippled legs.
• ginny9adj. Affected by gin; resembling or characteristic of gin.
• gipsy11n. Dated spelling of gypsy.
• girly9adj. Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, gentle...
• gitty9n. A narrow pedestrian passageway in a residential area, between high...
• glady10adj. Having glades.
• glary9adj. Of a dazzling lustre; glaring; bright; shining.
• glory9n. Great beauty and splendor.
• glowy12adj. Glowing.
• gluey9adj. Viscous and adhesive, as glue.
• glyph14n. A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound...
• goaty9adj. Like a goat, goatlike or redolent of goats.
• gobby13adj. Marked by the presence of gobs (lumps).
• godly10adj. Of or pertaining to a god.
• goldy10adj. Synonym of goldish.
• golly9interj. A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
• goody10interj. Used to indicate pleasure or delight.
• gooey9adj. Having the consistency of goo: soft or viscous, and sticky.
• goofy12adj. Quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner; daft.
• goony9adj. Of or like a goon; thuggish; brutal.
• goopy11adj. Having the consistency of goop.
• goosy9adj. Characteristic of a goose; anserine.
• gorky13adj. Awkward or strange.
• gorry9interj. God!
• gothy12adj. Somewhat goth.
• gouty9adj. Suffering from gout.
• goyle9n. A ravine or other depression.
• gravy12n. A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown...
• greys9n. Grey trousers and/or jackets worn by prisoners on relatively formal...
• grimy11adj. Stained or covered with grime.
• grody10adj. Nasty, dirty, disgusting, foul, revolting, yucky, grotesque.
• gully9n. A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow...
• gummy13adj. Showing the gums.
• gundy10n. A front claw of a crab.
• gunky13adj. Greasy, messy or dirty.
• gunny9n. A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp.
• guppy13n. A species of tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home...
• gurdy10n. A manual crank used on fishing lines.
• gurry9n. A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the...
• gushy12adj. Gushing; effusive and often emotional.
• gussy9v. To dress up or decorate in a showy way.
• gusty9adj. Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
• gutsy9adj. Marked by courage, determination or boldness in the face of...
• gutty9adj. Charged or sprinkled with drops.
• guyed10adj. Fitted with or attached to a guy.
• guyot9n. A flat-topped seamount.
• gyani9n. A knowledgeable or wise person; sage, saint.
• gyaru9n. A Japanese subculture and fashion style popular in the 1990s, typically...
• gynae9adj. (abbreviation, informal) gynaecological.
• gyoza18n. A Japanese crescent-shaped dumpling filled with a minced stuffing and...
• gypsy14n. An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a...
• gyrus9n. A fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain.

H

• hacky17adj. Like a hack; amateurish.
• haddy13n. A grade of troops in the Moghul service, analogous to a warrant officer.
• haggy13adj. Resembling or characteristic of a hag (old or ugly woman or witch).
• haily11adj. Containing hail; involving hail falling.
• hairy11adj. Having a lot of body hair.
• haiya11interj. An exclamation of exasperation, said especially when a bad event occurs.
• hammy15adj. Resembling or characteristic of ham.
• handy12adj. Easy to use, useful.
• haply13adv. By accident or luck.
• happy15adj. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of...
• hardy12adj. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
• harpy13n. A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the...
• harry11v. To plunder, pillage, assault.
• hasty11adj. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having...
• hatty11adj. Of, relating to, or resembling, a hat.
• hayer11n. One who cuts hay for animal fodder.
• heady12adj. Intoxicating or stupefying.
• heavy14adj. Having great weight.
• heeey11interj. Elongated form of hey.
• hefty14adj. With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive.
• helly11adj. Hellish, infernal.
• henny11n. Synonym of hinny (cross between a stallion and a she-ass).
• henry11n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical...
• herby13adj. Of or pertaining to herbs.
• herky15adj. Only used in herky-jerky.
• herry11v. To honour, praise or celebrate.
• hetty11n. A heterosexual.
• hexyl18n. Any of many isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₆H₁₃, formally...
• hilly11adj. Abundant in hills; having many hills.
• hinky15adj. Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having...
• hinny11n. The hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and a she-ass (female...
• hippy15adj. Having large or prominent hips.
• hissy11adj. Accompanied with hisses.
• hoary11adj. White, whitish, or greyish-white.
• hobby15n. An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
• hoggy13adj. Synonym of hoggish (“resembling a pig”).
• hokey15adj. Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy...
• holey11adj. Having, or being full of, holes.
• holly11n. Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex...
• homey13adj. Befitting a home; cozy, intimate.
• honey11n. A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by...
• honky15n. A white (Caucasian) person.
• hoody12n. The hooded crow.
• hooey11n. Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).
• hooky15n. Absence from school or work; truancy.
• hooly11adj. Holy.
• hoopy13adj. Shaped like a hoop.
• hooty11adj. Characterised by a hooting sound.
• hoppy15adj. Having a taste of hops; heavily flavoured with hops.
• horry11adj. Impure; unclean; disgustingly dirty; foul.
• horsy11adj. Of, relating to, or similar to horses.
• hosey11v. To bagsy; to shotgun (make a claim).
• hotly11adv. With great amounts of heat.
• howay14interj. A general cry of encouragement.
• howdy15interj. An informal greeting.
• hoyer11n. A device for transferring a person with serious mobility issues to and...
• hubby15n. Husband.
• huffy17adj. Angry, annoyed, indignant or irritated.
• huggy13adj. Tending to hug; affectionate in a physical way.
• hully11adj. Having or containing hulls (peel, shell etc.).
• humpy15adj. Characterised by humps, uneven.
• hundy12n. Hundred, especially 100 dollars.
• hunky15adj. Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
• hunty11n. An irreverent or sarcastic term of endearment.
• hurly11n. A wheelbarrow.
• hurry11n. A rushed action.
• hurty11adj. Causing hurt; painful.
• husky15adj. Of a voice, hoarse and rough-sounding; throaty.
• hussy11n. A sexually immoral woman.
• hydel12adj. Hydroelectric.
• hydra12n. A dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them...
• hydro12n. Electrical power supply; specifically, electrical power provided by a...
• hyena11n. Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the family...
• hygge13n. A feeling of cosiness, comfort, contentment and conviviality.
• hylia11n. Any bird in the family Hyliidae.
• hymen13n. A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening...
• hyoid12adj. Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon (υ).
• hyped14adj. Having been subject to propaganda and promotion; promoted beyond what...
• hyper13n. A character or an individual with large body parts, usually the...
• hypha16n. Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a...
• hyphy19adj. Rambunctious, loud, crazy, dangerous, irrational, and outrageous in...
• hyrax18n. Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the family...
• hyson11n. A Chinese green tea.
• hythe14n. A landing-place in a river; a harbour or small port.
• hyung12n. An affectionate term of address for an older brother or somewhat older...

I

• icily10adv. In the manner of ice; with a cold or chilling effect.
• idyll9n. Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's...
• imply12v. To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a...
• inlay8v. To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form...
• irony8n. The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually...
• islay8n. Prunus ilicifolia, a traditional Native American food plant in southern...
• itchy13adj. Characterized by itching. (of a condition).
• ivory11n. The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants...
• ixnay15interj. No.

J

• jacky21n. A sailor.
• jaggy17adj. Jagged, toothed or serrated.
• jakey19n. A homeless drunk.
• jammy19adj. Resembling jam in taste, texture, etc.
• janky19adj. Of poor quality.
• jarry15adj. Jarring, reverberating.
• jazzy33adj. In the style of jazz.
• jelly15n. A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such...
• jemmy19n. An immigrant.
• jenny15n. A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also...
• jerky19adj. Characterized by physical jerking, or by sudden and uneven progress.
• jerry15n. A chamber pot.
• jesty15adj. Inclined to jest; waggish; sportive.
• jetty15n. A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest...
• jiffy21n. A very short, unspecified length of time.
• jiggy17adj. Resembling or suggesting a jig.
• jimmy19n. Sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes.
• jinky19adj. Mazy, windy, zigzagging in its motion.
• jizya24n. A per capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state's non-Muslim...
• jobby19n. A job that is also a hobby: a dream job or passion project; or, a side...
• jocky21adj. Jocklike.
• jolly15adj. Full of merriment and high spirits; jovial; joyous; merry.
• joshy18adj. Characterised by lighthearted banter; joky.
• jowly18adj. Having conspicuous jowls; with a double chin.
• judgy17adj. Inclined to make (disapproving) judgments; judgmental.
• juggy17adj. Involving one or more jugs as hand holds.
• juicy17adj. Having lots of juice.
• jumpy19adj. Nervous and excited.
• junky19adj. Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low...

K

• kamuy14n. A spiritual or divine being in Ainu mythology, similar to the Japanese...
• kavya15n. A highly artificial Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets...
• kayak16n. A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the...
• kayle12n. A pin used in kayles or skittles.
• keely12adj. Relating to, or characteristic of keel (ruddle).
• kelly12n. A square or hexagonal pipe that is turned in order to rotate the rotary...
• kerby14n. A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the...
• keyed13adj. Having a key, mated to a keyseat and/or keyway, to either control or...
• keyer12n. One who, or that which, keys.
• khaya15n. A native house or hut.
• kicky18adj. Lively, exciting, thrilling.
• kiddy14n. A small kid (young goat).
• kikyo16n. A Japanese bellflower (Platycodon grandiflorus).
• kilty12n. A flap of fringed leather covering part of a boot's tongue and lace.
• kingy13n. The kingfisher, Alcedo atthis.
• kinky16adj. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
• kissy12adj. Sentimentally affectionate.
• kitty12n. A young cat; a kitten.
• kizzy30n. Only used in no kizzy.
• kooky16adj. Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.
• kriya12n. A technique or practice within a yoga discipline.
• kylie12n. A boomerang.
• kylix19n. An Ancient Greek drinking cup with a stem, two handles, and a broad...
• kyrie12n. A short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie eleison, meaning...
• kyudo13n. A Japanese form of archery.

L

• laggy10adj. Having a delayed response to a change in the factors influencing it.
• lairy8adj. Touchy, aggressive or confrontational, usually while drunk.
• laity8n. People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
• lally8n. Leg.
• lamby12adj. Resembling or characteristic of a lamb or the meat of a lamb.
• lammy12n. A thick quilted jumper or duffel coat worn outdoors in cold weather by...
• lappy12n. A laptop computer.
• lardy9adj. Resembling or containing (perhaps an excess of) lard.
• larky12adj. Playful.
• larry8n. A confused noise; an uproar; a hubbub.
• laxly15adv. In a lax manner; without rigor or strictness.
• layan8v. To respond to (a person) through conversation or actions, to entertain.
• layer8n. A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
• layup10n. A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the...
• leafy11adj. Covered with leaves.
• leaky12adj. Having leaks; not fully sealed.
• lecky14n. Electricity.
• leery8adj. Cautious, suspicious, wary, hesitant, or nervous about something...
• lefty11n. One who is left-handed.
• leggy10adj. Having long, attractive legs; long-legged.
• letty8n. Only used in scarper the letty.
• licky14adj. Prone to licking.
• limey10adj. Resembling limes (the fruit); lime-like.
• limpy12adj. Having or resembling a limp.
• lindy9n. A jitterbug, originated in Harlem, New York.
• liney8adj. Resembling or characterised by lines.
• linty8adj. Covered with lint.
• lippy12adj. Having prominent lips.
• lispy10adj. Tending to lisp when speaking.
• listy8adj. Resembling or characteristic of a list, or tending to use lists.
• litty8adj. Little.
• loamy10adj. Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
• lobby12n. An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
• locky14adj. Having locks or tufts.
• lofty11adj. High, tall, having great height or stature.
• lolly8n. A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop.
• longy9n. A Manx cat with a long tail, that therefore cannot be shown at a Manx...
• looby10n. A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
• looey8n. Lieutenant.
• looky12v. Look.
• loopy10adj. Having loops.
• lorry8n. A large and heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods or soldiers; a...
• lossy8adj. Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.
• lousy8adj. Insufficient and less than expected of a good thing.
• lovey11n. An informal mode of address (associated most often with actors and the...
• lowly11adj. Not high; not elevated in place; low.
• lowry11n. An open boxcar used on railroads.
• loyal8adj. Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or...
• lucky14adj. Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
• lully8n. Wet or drying linen.
• lumpy12adj. Full of lumps, not smooth, uneven.
• lurgy9n. A non-specific (often infectious) disease, especially one with symptoms...
• lurky12adj. Tending to lurk; given to or indicative of lurking.
• lusty8adj. Exhibiting lust (in the obsolete sense meaning "vigor"); strong...
• lyase8n. Any of many classes of enzyme that catalyze the breaking of a specific...
• lycan10n. A werewolf.
• lycra10n. Letter case form of Lycra.
• lying9n. The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
• lymph15n. A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues...
• lynch13v. To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure...
• lyric10adj. Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that...
• lysin8n. Any substance or antibody that can cause the destruction (by lysis) of...
• lysis8n. A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple.
• lyssa8n. Rabies.
• lysyl11adj. Of or pertaining to lysine.
• lythe11n. A fish, the European pollock (Pollachius pollachius).
• lytic10adj. Of, relating to, or causing lysis.

M

• macky16adj. Large.
• madly11adv. Without reason or understanding; wildly.
• maily10adj. Rough, rugged.
• malky14v. To slash with an open razor.
• malty10adj. Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of malt.
• mamey12n. An evergreen tree of species Mammea americana, or its edible fruit.
• mammy14n. Mamma; mother.
• mandy11n. The drug MDMA.
• mangy11adj. Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
• manky14adj. Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
• manly10adj. Having the characteristics of a man.
• manny10n. A male nanny (for children).
• manty10n. Synonym of mantou (Chinese dumpling bun).
• mardy11adj. Sulky or whining.
• marly10adj. Containing or resembling marl.
• marry10v. To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a...
• marvy13adj. Great, awesome, brilliant.
• mashy13adj. Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.
• massy10adj. Heavy; massive.
• matey10adj. Sociable or friendly.
• mathy13adj. Synonym of mathsy (“of or relating to mathematics”).
• matty10adj. Matted.
• mauzy19adj. Hot and humid.
• maybe12adv. Perhaps, possibly.
• mayor10n. The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough...
• mealy10adj. Resembling meal (the foodstuff).
• meaty10adj. Of, relating to, or containing meat.
• melty10adj. Having a high tendency to melt.
• memey12adj. Characterized by or relating to memes.
• mercy12n. Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
• merry10adj. Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
• messy10adj. In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
• methy13n. The burbot.
• middy12n. A midshipman.
• miffy16adj. Easily irritated or offended.
• milky14adj. Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
• milty10adj. Resembling or characteristic of milt.
• mimsy12adj. A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.
• mincy12adj. Mincing; affectedly dainty.
• mindy11n. Knife.
• mingy11adj. Mean, miserly, stingy.
• minky14adj. Of or pertaining to minks.
• minny10n. A minnow.
• minty10adj. Having a flavor or essence of mint.
• missy10n. A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically...
• misty10adj. Covered in mist; foggy.
• mitty10n. The storm petrel.
• mizzy28n. A bog or quagmire.
• moany10adj. Tending to complain.
• moggy12n. A domestic cat, especially (depreciative or derogatory) a non-pedigree...
• moldy11adj. Covered with mold.
• moley10adj. Pertaining to, full of, or characteristic of moles (burrowing...
• molly10n. A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.
• mommy14n. Mother.
• money10n. A generally accepted means of exchange.
• moody11adj. Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.
• moony10adj. Resembling the Moon.
• mopey12adj. Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits...
• mopsy12n. Synonym of moppet.
• moray10n. Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
• mosey10v. To set off, get going; to start a journey.
• mossy10adj. Covered in or overgrown with moss.
• motty10adj. Full of, or consisting of, motes.
• mousy10adj. Resembling a mouse.
• moyen10n. Intercession; intervention.
• mucky16adj. Covered in muck.
• muddy12adj. Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
• muggy12adj. Humid, or hot and humid.
• muhly13n. Any of the many species of grasses of genus Muhlenbergia.
• muley10adj. Without horns.
• mummy14n. An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages...
• mumsy12adj. Characteristic of a mum; motherly.
• munny10n. A measure of land used in the neighbourhood of Madras.
• munya10adj. Good.
• murky14adj. Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
• murry10adv. Very, extremely.
• mushy13adj. Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or...
• musky14adj. Resembling or characteristic of musk, especially in scent.
• mussy10adj. Having been mussed: messy, rumpled.
• musty10adj. Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.
• muzzy28adj. Blurred, hazy, indistinct, unfocussed.
• myall10n. An Aboriginal person living according to tradition.
• mycin12n. Any -mycin compound.
• myeon10n. An administrative unit in South Korea, corresponding to a small rural...
• mylar10n. A polyester film.
• myoma12n. A tumor composed of muscle tissue, usually benign and commonly...
• myron10n. Chrism; myrrh.
• myrrh13n. A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the genus...
• mysen10pron. Myself.
• mysid11n. Any crustacean of the order Mysida.
• mysis10n. A set of growth stages in the larvae of Decapoda after protozoea and...

N

• nabby12n. A skiff used for fishing.
• naggy10adj. Prone to nag, irritable.
• nakey12adj. Naked.
• nanny8n. A child's nurse.
• nappy12n. An absorbent garment worn by a baby or toddler who does not yet have...
• narky12adj. Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging.
• nasty8adj. Dirty, filthy.
• natty8adj. Smart and fashionable.
• natya8n. The classical Indian forms of dance, singing, and dramatics.
• navvy14n. A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad.

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