6-letter words containing Y
Embark on an exploration of 6-letter words that contain the letter Y. This segment uncovers the diverse range of words that incorporate Y within this specific length, revealing the versatility and richness of language. Ideal for vocabulary enthusiasts and word-game aficionados.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| really | 9 | used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal | a really enjoyable evening |
| always | 12 | at all times; all the time and on every occasion | I will always be there to help you |
| family | 14 | a social unit living together | he moved his family to Virginia |
| trying | 10 | extremely irritating to the nerves | a trying day at the office |
| pretty | 11 | to certain extent or degree | pretty big |
| myself | 14 | I or me in person; used for emphasis. Used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis. | I will defend myself |
| saying | 10 | a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | - |
| anyone | 9 | One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. | - |
| anyway | 15 | in any way whatsoever | get it done anyway you can |
| nobody | 12 | a person of no influence | - |
| system | 11 | an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized | we can't do it unless we establish some system around here |
| hungry | 13 | (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | hungry for recognition |
| lovely | 12 | lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | - |
| crying | 12 | demanding attention | a crying need |
| bloody | 12 | informal intensifiers | a bloody fool |
| played | 12 | (of games) engaged in | the loosely played game |
| lawyer | 12 | a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | - |
| beauty | 11 | a very attractive or seductive looking woman | - |
| simply | 13 | in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment | they lived very simply |
| memory | 13 | the power of retaining and recalling past experience | he had a good memory when he was younger |
| energy | 10 | (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs | energy can take a wide variety of forms |
| flying | 13 | moving swiftly | fast-flying planes |
| twenty | 12 | denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units | - |
| slowly | 12 | in music | - |
| guilty | 10 | showing a sense of guilt | a guilty look |
| hardly | 13 | almost not | he hardly ever goes fishing |
| paying | 12 | yielding a fair profit | - |
| beyond | 12 | - | - |
| plenty | 11 | as much as necessary | I've had plenty, thanks |
| johnny | 19 | `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms | - |
| lonely | 9 | lacking companions or companionship | a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel |
| nearly | 9 | in a close manner | the person most nearly concerned |
| player | 11 | someone who takes part in an activity | he was a major player in setting up the corporation |
| surely | 9 | definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely') | the results are surely encouraging |
| lately | 9 | in the recent past | lately the rules have been enforced |
| easily | 9 | with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily') | she was easily excited |
| theory | 12 | a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory |
| monkey | 15 | one who is playfully mischievous | - |
| safety | 12 | a device designed to prevent injury or accidents | - |
| yellow | 12 | of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | - |
| buying | 12 | the act of buying | buying and selling fill their days |
| thirty | 12 | the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three | - |
| barely | 11 | almost not | she barely seemed to notice him |
| mostly | 11 | in large part; mainly or chiefly | - |
| agency | 12 | the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | - |
| likely | 13 | likely but not certain to be or become true or real | a likely result |
| policy | 13 | written contract or certificate of insurance | you should have read the small print on your policy |
| deeply | 12 | to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | They felt the loss deeply |
| valley | 12 | a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river | - |
| granny | 10 | a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure | - |
| filthy | 15 | vile; despicable | a filthy traitor |
| highly | 16 | to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect | highly successful |
| county | 11 | (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government | the county has a population of 12,345 people |
| poetry | 11 | literature in metrical form | - |
| nearby | 11 | close at hand | the nearby towns |
| prayer | 11 | earnest or urgent request | - |
| supply | 13 | circulate or distribute or equip with | supply blankets for the beds |
| salary | 9 | something that remunerates | - |
| turkey | 13 | an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | the first experiment was a real turkey |
| mighty | 15 | (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree | the baby is mighty cute |
| shitty | 12 | very bad | - |
| steady | 10 | not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall | - |
| mickey | 17 | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent | - |
| oxygen | 17 | a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust | - |
| symbol | 13 | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | the eagle is a symbol of the United States |
| skinny | 13 | being very thin | a child with skinny freckled legs |
| nicely | 11 | in a nice way | a nicely painted house |
| donkey | 14 | domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn | - |
| psycho | 16 | a person afflicted with psychosis | - |
| jersey | 16 | a close-fitting pullover shirt | - |
| creepy | 13 | causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin | a creepy story |
| worthy | 15 | worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse | - |
| cowboy | 16 | a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging | - |
| cherry | 14 | of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | - |
| merely | 11 | and nothing more | I was merely asking |
| betray | 11 | disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | - |
| safely | 12 | - | - |
| softly | 12 | with low volume | speak softly but carry a big stick |
| gently | 10 | in a gentle manner | he talked gently to the injured animal |
| rhythm | 17 | an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs | - |
| misery | 11 | a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable |
| deputy | 12 | an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent | - |
| comedy | 14 | a comic incident or series of incidents | - |
| deadly | 11 | (used as intensives) extremely | deadly dull |
| sylvia | 12 | - | - |
| injury | 16 | a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat | - |
| fairly | 12 | without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner | deal fairly with one another |
| rarely | 9 | not often | we rarely met |
| sleepy | 11 | ready to fall asleep | beginning to feel sleepy |
| subway | 14 | an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground' |
| hockey | 18 | a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks | - |
| laying | 10 | the production of eggs (especially in birds) | - |
| melody | 12 | a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | - |
| tricky | 15 | having concealed difficulty | a tricky recipe to follow |
| luxury | 16 | the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | - |
| whisky | 19 | a liquor made from fermented mash of grain | - |
| greedy | 11 | (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | greedy for fame |
| anyhow | 15 | in any way whatsoever | they came anyhow they could |
| mainly | 11 | for the most part | he is mainly interested in butterflies |
| kidney | 14 | either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine | urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder |
| galaxy | 17 | tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | - |
| kindly | 14 | showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | kindly criticism |
| colony | 11 | a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | - |
| brandy | 12 | distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | - |
| spying | 12 | the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes | - |
| legacy | 12 | (law) a gift of personal property by will | - |
| loudly | 10 | in manner that attracts attention | - |
| asylum | 11 | a shelter from danger or hardship | - |
| rodney | 10 | - | - |
| murphy | 16 | an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | - |
| ninety | 9 | being ten more than eighty | - |
| trophy | 14 | something given as a token of victory | - |
| eighty | 13 | being ten more than seventy | - |
| freely | 12 | in a free manner | the painting featured freely brushed strokes |
| shorty | 12 | - | - |
| shelly | 12 | - | - |
| yakuza | 22 | a Japanese gangster | - |
| classy | 11 | elegant and fashionable | classy clothes |
| freaky | 16 | conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | - |
| hereby | 14 | (formal) by means of this | I hereby declare you man and wife |
| canyon | 11 | a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall | - |
| clumsy | 13 | showing lack of skill or aptitude | did a clumsy job |
| yelled | 10 | in a vehement outcry | - |
| dearly | 10 | with affection | she loved him dearly |
| gladly | 11 | in a willing manner | this was gladly agreed to |
| sticky | 15 | hot or warm and humid | sticky weather |
| voyage | 13 | an act of traveling by water | - |
| crappy | 15 | very bad | - |
| barney | 11 | - | - |
| sherry | 12 | dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif | - |
| yankee | 13 | an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War) | - |
| shaggy | 14 | having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags | shaggy rugs |
| sweaty | 12 | - | - |
| lively | 12 | elastic; rebounds readily | a lively tennis ball |
| survey | 12 | short descriptive summary (of events) | - |
| bounty | 11 | payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military | - |
| runway | 12 | a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | - |
| spooky | 15 | unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | - |
| murray | 11 | Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) | - |
| ridley | 10 | a marine turtle | - |
| verify | 15 | check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard | - |
| hooray | 12 | a victory cheer | - |
| cheeky | 18 | offensively bold | - |
| smelly | 11 | offensively malodorous | - |
| notify | 12 | inform (somebody) of something | - |
| purely | 11 | restricted to something | - |
| sloppy | 13 | not fitting closely; hanging loosely | - |
| weekly | 16 | of or occurring every seven days | a weekly visit |
| bakery | 15 | a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | - |
| bailey | 11 | United States singer (1918-1990) | - |
| purity | 11 | the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | - |
| stinky | 13 | having an unpleasant smell | - |
| gloomy | 12 | depressingly dark | the gloomy forest |
| calmly | 13 | in a sedate manner | - |
| openly | 11 | in an open way | he openly flaunted his affection for his sister |
| treaty | 9 | a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | - |
| occupy | 15 | consume all of one's attention or time | - |
| chilly | 14 | very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | - |
| partly | 11 | to some extent; in some degree; not wholly | I felt partly to blame |
| firmly | 14 | in a secure manner; in a manner free from danger | - |
| mayday | 15 | an internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider) | - |
| fluffy | 18 | like down or as soft as down | - |
| sneaky | 13 | marked by deception | - |
| martyr | 11 | one who suffers for the sake of principle | - |
| chubby | 18 | sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | a chubby child |
| poorly | 11 | somewhat ill or prone to illness | feeling poorly |
| typing | 12 | writing done with a typewriter | - |
| vanity | 12 | feelings of excessive pride | - |
| artery | 9 | a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body | - |
| yogurt | 10 | a custard-like food made from curdled milk | - |
| employ | 13 | engage or hire for work | How many people has she employed? |
| convoy | 14 | a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships | - |
| remedy | 12 | provide relief for | remedy his illness |
| stingy | 10 | deficient in amount or quality or extent | - |
| tyrant | 9 | a cruel and oppressive dictator | - |
| greasy | 10 | smeared or soiled with grease or oil | greasy coveralls |
| thingy | 13 | - | - |
| sawyer | 12 | any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers | - |
| grumpy | 14 | annoyed and irritable | - |
| uneasy | 9 | lacking or not affording physical or mental rest | she fell into an uneasy sleep |
| felony | 12 | a serious crime (such as murder or arson) | - |
| convey | 14 | transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | - |
| pastry | 11 | a dough of flour and water and shortening | - |
| whitey | 15 | (slang) offensive names for a White man | - |
| comply | 15 | act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | You must comply or else! |
| mystic | 13 | someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension | - |
| coyote | 11 | small wolf native to western North America | - |
| hurray | 12 | - | - |
| quarry | 18 | animal hunted or caught for food | - |
| righty | 13 | - | - |
| oyster | 9 | edible body of any of numerous oysters | - |
| stuffy | 15 | excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | - |
| joyful | 19 | full of high-spirited delight | a joyful heart |
| mayhem | 16 | violent and needless disturbance | - |
| hybrid | 15 | a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) | - |
| drying | 11 | - | - |
| froggy | 14 | - | - |
| cheesy | 14 | of very poor quality; flimsy | - |
| cavity | 14 | space that is surrounded by something | - |
| psyche | 16 | that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | - |
| touchy | 14 | difficult to handle; requiring great tact | a touchy subject |
| jockey | 22 | defeat someone through trickery or deceit | - |
| astray | 9 | far from the intended target | a bullet went astray and killed a bystander |
| speedy | 12 | characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed | a speedy car |
| widely | 13 | to or over a great extent or range; far | he traveled widely |
| entity | 9 | that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | - |
| frying | 13 | cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle | - |
| bypass | 13 | a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | - |
| cloudy | 12 | lacking definite form or limits | gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion |
| sturdy | 10 | having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | sturdy young athletes |
| solely | 9 | without any others being included or involved | did it solely for money |
| smiley | 11 | an emoticon of a smiling face | - |
| hurley | 12 | - | - |
| bodily | 12 | affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | bodily needs |
| groovy | 13 | (British informal) very chic | groovy clothes |
| shabby | 16 | showing signs of wear and tear | shabby furniture |
| layout | 9 | a plan or design of something that is laid out | - |
| nudity | 10 | the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | - |
| humbly | 16 | in a miserly manner | - |
| sleazy | 18 | morally degraded | sleazy characters hanging around casinos |
| wildly | 13 | to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree | the storyline is wildly unrealistic |
| wisely | 12 | in a wise manner | she acted wisely when she invited her parents |
| deploy | 12 | place troops or weapons in battle formation | - |
| costly | 11 | entailing great loss or sacrifice | - |
| cyborg | 14 | a human being whose body has been taken over in whole or in part by electromechanical devices | a cyborg is a cybernetic organism |
| yonder | 10 | distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal) | yonder valley |
| milady | 12 | an English noblewoman | - |
| midday | 13 | the middle of the day | - |
| cranky | 15 | easily irritated or annoyed | - |
| sanity | 9 | normal or sound powers of mind | - |
| papaya | 13 | tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit | - |
| trendy | 10 | in accord with the latest fad | trendy ideas |
| canary | 11 | any of several small Old World finches | - |
| pantry | 11 | a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | - |
| crispy | 13 | tender and brittle | - |
| blimey | 13 | - | - |
| joyous | 16 | full of or characterized by joy | felt a joyous abandon |
| mutiny | 11 | engage in a mutiny against an authority | - |
| namely | 11 | as follows | - |
| pompey | 15 | Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC) | - |
| notary | 9 | someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions | - |
| frenzy | 21 | state of violent mental agitation | - |
| slayer | 9 | someone who causes the death of a person or animal | - |
| flashy | 15 | (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | - |
| python | 14 | a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit | - |
| snappy | 13 | pleasantly cold and invigorating | snappy weather |
| payday | 15 | the day on which you receive pay for your work | - |
| stormy | 11 | characterized by violent emotions or behavior | a stormy argument |
| youths | 12 | - | - |
| frosty | 12 | pleasantly cold and invigorating | crisp clear nights and frosty mornings |
| barley | 11 | a grain of barley | - |
| bitchy | 16 | marked by or arising from malice | - |
| overly | 12 | to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits | - |
| creasy | 11 | - | - |
| blurry | 11 | indistinct or hazy in outline | the trees were just blurry shapes |
| clergy | 12 | in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity) | - |
| pointy | 11 | - | - |
| faulty | 12 | having a defect | - |
| catchy | 16 | having concealed difficulty | a catchy question |
| neatly | 9 | with neatness | she put the slippers under the bed neatly |
| dreamy | 12 | lacking spirit or liveliness | - |
| embryo | 13 | an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | - |
| feisty | 12 | showing courage | the champion is faced with a feisty challenger |
| lastly | 9 | the item at the end | - |
| midway | 15 | naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands | - |
| purify | 14 | remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | purify the water |
| wholly | 15 | to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly') | he was wholly convinced |
| yippee | 13 | - | - |
| rosary | 9 | a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics) | - |
| crafty | 14 | marked by skill in deception | - |
| smarty | 11 | - | - |
| tycoon | 11 | a very wealthy or powerful businessman | - |
| phoney | 14 | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | - |
| starry | 9 | abounding with or resembling stars | a starry night |
| chucky | 20 | - | - |
| yorker | 13 | - | - |
| evenly | 12 | in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way | a class evenly divided between girls and boys |
| fruity | 12 | informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | - |
| chunky | 18 | like or containing small sticky lumps | the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough |
| replay | 11 | the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape | - |
| creamy | 13 | of the color of cream | creamy translucent pebbles |
| biopsy | 13 | examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease | - |
| pigsty | 12 | a pen for swine | - |
| gurney | 10 | a metal stretcher with wheels | - |
| hearty | 12 | endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health | a hearty glow of health |
| cyprus | 13 | a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin | - |
| bouncy | 13 | elastic; rebounds readily | clean bouncy hair |
| slutty | 9 | - | - |
| galley | 10 | the area for food preparation on a ship | - |
| cuddly | 13 | inviting cuddling or hugging | a cuddly teddybear |
| piracy | 13 | hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | air piracy |
| watery | 12 | wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears | - |
| dreary | 10 | causing dejection | - |
| enmity | 11 | the feeling of a hostile person | - |
| measly | 11 | contemptibly small in amount | a measly tip |
| hugely | 13 | extremely | - |
| pricey | 13 | having a high price | a pricey restaurant |
| quirky | 22 | (informal) strikingly unconventional | - |
| modify | 15 | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | - |
| mildly | 12 | in a gentle manner | - |
| enzyme | 20 | any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions | - |
| bubbly | 15 | a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | - |
| canopy | 13 | a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather | - |
| storey | 9 | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | - |
| woolly | 12 | confused and vague; used especially of thinking | woolly thinking |
| garvey | 13 | - | - |
| chatty | 14 | prone to friendly informal communication | - |
| trusty | 9 | worthy of trust or belief | - |
| floppy | 16 | a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price |
| snotty | 9 | (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | a snotty little scion of a degenerate family |
| timely | 11 | at an opportune time | - |
| trashy | 12 | cheap and inferior; of no value | trashy merchandise |
| heresy | 12 | any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position | - |
| crikey | 15 | - | - |
| peachy | 16 | of something resembling a peach in color | - |
| toying | 10 | playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | - |
| honeys | 12 | - | - |
| finely | 12 | in a delicate manner | finely shaped features |
| crummy | 15 | of very poor quality; flimsy | - |
| cayman | 13 | a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly | - |
| skippy | 17 | - | - |
| payoff | 17 | the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | - |
| unruly | 9 | incapable of being controlled | the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly |
| unholy | 12 | extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | unholy grimaces |
| wobbly | 16 | inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | a wobbly chair with shaky legs |
| eyeing | 10 | - | - |
| grubby | 14 | small sculpin of the coast of New England | - |
| armory | 11 | a place where arms are manufactured | - |
| apathy | 14 | the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | - |
| parley | 11 | a negotiation between enemies | - |
| strays | 9 | - | - |
| equity | 18 | conformity with rules or standards | - |
| celery | 11 | widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked | - |
| queasy | 18 | causing or able to cause nausea | - |
| prying | 12 | offensively curious or inquisitive | prying eyes |
| steamy | 11 | filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist | steamy towels |
| tryout | 9 | trying something to find out about it | - |
| warmly | 14 | in a hearty manner | We welcomed her warmly |
| drowsy | 13 | showing lack of attention or boredom | - |
| frizzy | 30 | (of hair) in small tight curls | - |
| brainy | 11 | having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | our project needs brainy women |
| sentry | 9 | a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | - |
| scythe | 14 | an edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground | - |
| shifty | 15 | changing position or direction | shifty winds |
| yearly | 12 | a reference book that is published regularly once every year | - |
| larynx | 16 | a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech | - |
| sickly | 15 | somewhat ill or prone to illness | a sickly child |
| pearly | 11 | informal terms for a human `tooth' | - |
| eulogy | 10 | a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently | - |
| snoopy | 11 | offensively curious or inquisitive | the snoopy neighbor watched us all day |
| pacify | 16 | cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | - |
| sporty | 11 | exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | - |
| nighty | 13 | - | - |
| hickey | 18 | a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover | - |
| crusty | 11 | having a hardened crust as a covering | - |
| gnarly | 10 | used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | - |
| uppity | 13 | presumptuously arrogant | getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down |
| humpty | 16 | - | - |
| boldly | 12 | with boldness, in a bold manner | we must tackle these tasks boldly |
| binary | 11 | a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation | - |
| spotty | 11 | having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture) | the wall had a spotty speckled effect |
| rotary | 9 | a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary |
| shimmy | 16 | tremble or shake | - |
| teensy | 9 | (used informally) very small | - |
| myrtle | 11 | widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers | - |
| fleshy | 15 | of or relating to or resembling flesh | - |
| flabby | 16 | out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance | flabby around the middle |
| frisky | 16 | playful like a lively kitten | - |
| busboy | 13 | a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes | - |
| prissy | 11 | exaggeratedly proper | - |
| lunacy | 11 | obsolete terms for legal insanity | - |
| sodomy | 12 | intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | - |
| homely | 14 | having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | the homely everyday atmosphere |
| scurry | 11 | to move about or proceed hurriedly | - |
| hourly | 12 | occurring every hour or payable by the hour | hourly chimes |
| eyelid | 10 | either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye | - |
| henley | 12 | - | - |
| banyan | 11 | a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | - |
| rarity | 9 | a rarified quality | - |
| realty | 9 | property consisting of houses and land | - |
| parody | 12 | make a parody of | - |
| tomboy | 13 | a girl who behaves in a boyish manner | - |
| embody | 14 | represent, as of a character on stage | - |
| breezy | 20 | abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | - |
| cheery | 14 | bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | a cheery hello |
| vastly | 12 | to an exceedingly great extent or degree | He had vastly overestimated his resources |
| voyeur | 12 | a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | - |
| layman | 11 | someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | - |
| fondly | 13 | with fondness; with love | she spoke to her children fondly |
| weakly | 16 | lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | - |
| thorny | 12 | having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | - |
| choosy | 14 | difficult to please | - |
| rudely | 10 | in an impolite manner | - |
| shoddy | 14 | unethical or dishonest | shoddy business practices |
| smithy | 14 | a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering | - |
| verily | 12 | in truth; certainly | I verily think so |
| looney | 9 | someone deranged and possibly dangerous | - |
| droopy | 12 | hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | - |
| doubly | 12 | to double the degree | she was doubly rewarded |
| glossy | 10 | reflecting light | the horse's glossy coat |
| tingly | 10 | - | - |
| infamy | 14 | a state of extreme dishonor | a date which will live in infamy |
| clingy | 12 | - | - |
| zephyr | 23 | a slight wind (usually refreshing) | - |
| idiocy | 12 | extreme mental retardation | - |
| dinghy | 14 | a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | - |
| eatery | 9 | a building where people go to eat | - |
| groggy | 12 | stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | - |
| snooty | 9 | (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | - |
| dismay | 12 | fear resulting from the awareness of danger | - |
| chummy | 18 | (used informally) associated on close terms | the bartender was chummy with the regular customers |
| sorely | 9 | in or as if in pain | sorely wounded |
| snazzy | 27 | flashily stylish | a snazzy outfit |
| paltry | 11 | contemptibly small in amount | a paltry wage |
| spongy | 12 | easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | spongy bread |
| yuppie | 13 | a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style | - |
| grassy | 10 | abounding in grass | - |
| shandy | 13 | a drink made of beer and lemonade | - |
| skanky | 17 | highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | - |
| sultry | 9 | characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | the summer was sultry and oppressive |
| typhon | 14 | (Greek mythology) a monster with a hundred heads who breathed out flames; son of Typhoeus and father of Cerberus and the Chimera and the Sphinx | - |
| untidy | 10 | not neat and tidy | careless and untidy in her personal habits |
| tranny | 9 | - | - |
| deejay | 17 | - | - |
| dynamo | 12 | generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature | - |
| flunky | 16 | a person of unquestioning obedience | - |
| pulley | 11 | a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | - |
| subtly | 11 | in a subtle manner | late nineteenth-century French opera at its most beautiful, subtly romantic with a twilight melancholy |
| typhus | 14 | rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever | - |
| boyish | 14 | befitting or characteristic of a young boy | a boyish grin |
| airway | 12 | the passages through which air enters and leaves the body | - |
| flimsy | 14 | not convincing | a flimsy argument |
| burley | 11 | - | - |
| sugary | 10 | containing sugar | he eats too much sugary food |
| myriad | 12 | too numerous to be counted | myriad stars |
| flirty | 12 | - | - |
| geyser | 10 | a spring that discharges hot water and steam | - |
| carney | 11 | - | - |
| priory | 11 | religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress | - |
| screwy | 14 | not behaving normally | - |
| skimpy | 17 | (of clothing) revealing the body | - |
| peyote | 11 | the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | - |
| keypad | 16 | a keyboard that is a data input device for computers; arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter keyboard | - |
| leeway | 12 | a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | - |
| mythic | 16 | based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity | mythical centaurs |
| horsey | 12 | - | - |
| flurry | 12 | a rapid active commotion | - |
| comely | 13 | according with custom or propriety | comely behavior |
| scurvy | 14 | a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) | - |
| shanty | 12 | a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | - |
| spunky | 15 | showing courage | - |
| whammy | 19 | an evil spell | he put the whammy on me |
| dainty | 10 | delicately beautiful | a dainty teacup |
| phooey | 14 | - | - |
| verity | 12 | conformity to reality or actuality | - |
| gentry | 10 | the most powerful members of a society | - |
| botany | 11 | the branch of biology that studies plants | - |
| coldly | 12 | lacking warmth of feeling; in a cold, unemotional manner | he addressed her coldly |
| stocky | 15 | having a short and solid form or stature | stocky legs |
| clammy | 15 | unpleasantly cool and humid | a clammy handshake |
| tawdry | 13 | tastelessly showy | tawdry ornaments |
| volley | 12 | rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | - |
| wiggly | 14 | curved or curving in and out | wiggly lines |
| medley | 12 | a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | - |
| nympho | 16 | a woman with abnormal sexual desires | - |
| floozy | 21 | a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | - |
| grisly | 10 | shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | a grisly murder |
| arroyo | 9 | a stream or brook | - |
| slinky | 13 | - | - |
| snippy | 13 | - | - |
| surrey | 9 | a county in southeastern England on the Thames | - |
| typist | 11 | someone paid to operate a typewriter | - |
| jiminy | 18 | - | - |
| justly | 16 | with honesty | - |
| lackey | 15 | a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | - |
| darkly | 14 | without light | the river was sliding darkly under the mist |
| livery | 12 | the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | - |
| glassy | 10 | (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | glassy porcelain |
| plucky | 17 | marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | - |
| jalopy | 18 | a car that is old and unreliable | - |
| moneys | 11 | - | - |
| fleury | 12 | - | - |
| belfry | 14 | a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | - |
| heyday | 16 | the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | - |
| expiry | 18 | a coming to an end of a contract period | the expiry of his driver's license |
| flatly | 12 | in an unqualified manner | he flatly denied the charges |
| goosey | 10 | having or revealing stupidity | - |
| gritty | 10 | composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | - |
| preppy | 15 | - | - |
| savory | 12 | pleasing to the sense of taste | - |
| ornery | 9 | having a difficult and contrary disposition | - |
| diddly | 12 | a small worthless amount | - |
| punchy | 16 | - | - |
| rashly | 12 | in a hasty and foolhardy manner | - |
| scummy | 15 | of the most contemptible kind | a scummy rabble |
| spacey | 13 | stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug | - |
| stoney | 9 | - | - |
| tweedy | 13 | of textiles; having a rough surface | - |
| keenly | 13 | in a keen or penetrating way | he was keenly aware of his own shortcomings |
| magyar | 12 | relating to or characteristic of Hungary | - |
