5-letter words containing n, a, y
- naily — Full of nails (the fastener).
- nanay — a member of a Tungusic people, traditionally hunters and fishermen, who inhabit the lower Amur Valley in southeastern Siberia and northeastern Manchuria.
- nancy — a department in NE France. 2038 sq. mi. (5280 sq. km). Capital: Nancy.
- nanny — a person, usually with special training, employed to care for children in a household.
- nappy — liquor, especially ale.
- narky — (UK, Australia, slang) Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging.
- nasby — Petroleum V. pen name of David Ross Locke.
- nasty — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- natty — neatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance; spruce: a natty white uniform.
- navvy — an unskilled manual laborer.
- nayed — Simple past tense and past participle of nay.
- nogay — Nogai.
- noway — in no way, respect, or degree; not at all; nowise: He was noway responsible for the accident.
- 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.
- nydia — a female given name.
- nyman — Michael. born 1944, British composer; works include the opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat (1986) and scores for films, including The Piano (1992) and several films by Peter Greenaway
- nyssa — a tree, native to Asia and North America, that is a member of the genus Nyssa and family Cornaceae
- onlay — an overlay, especially one in relief.
- panay — an island in the central Philippines. 4446 sq. mi. (11,515 sq. km). Capital: Iloilo.
- pandy — a stroke on the palm of the hand with a cane or strap given as a punishment in school.
- pansy — a violet, Viola tricolor hortensis, cultivated in many varieties, having richly and variously colored flowers.
- panty — panties.
- payne — John Howard, 1791–1852, U.S. actor and dramatist.
- pydna — a town in ancient Macedonia, W of the Gulf of Salonika: decisive Roman victory over the Macedonians 186 b.c.
- pyran — either of two compounds having the formula C 5 H 6 O, containing one oxygen and five carbon atoms arranged in a six-membered ring.
- rainy — characterized by rain: rainy weather; a rainy region.
- randy — sexually aroused; lustful; lecherous.
- rangy — (of animals or people) slender and long-limbed.
- rayon — a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
- renay — a person who disowns an organization, country, or belief system
- sandy — of the nature of or consisting of sand.
- sayon — a sleeveless tunic worn by lower-class men during the Middle Ages
- snaky — of or relating to snakes.
- snary — of or resembling a snare
- sonya — a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- sunya — that which exists absolutely and without predication.
- tandy — (company) A US company, the parent company of Radio Shack, makers of the TRS-80 and other early personal computers.
- taney — Roger Brooke, 1777–1864, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1836–64.
- tangy — having a tang.
- tanky — a member of the British Communist Party
- tansy — any of several composite plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially a strong-scented, weedy, Old World herb, T. vulgare, having flat-topped clusters of tubular yellow flowers.
- tanya — a female given name.
- tawny — of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color.
- tonya — a feminine name: dim. Toni; var. Tonia
- tyran — a tyrant
- unary — pertaining to a function whose domain is a given set and whose range is contained in that set.