4-letter words that end in y
- soay — a breed of small horned sheep having long legs and dark brown wool that is plucked rather than shorn; found mainly on St Kilda where they were probably introduced by the Vikings
- spay — to remove the ovaries of (an animal).
- spey — a river in E Scotland, flowing generally northeast through the Grampian Mountains to the Moray Firth: salmon fishing; parts of the surrounding area (Speyside) are famous for whisky distilleries. Length: 172 km (107 miles)
- spry — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- stey — a ladder
- sumy — a city in NE Ukraine, NW of Kharkov.
- suny — State University of New York
- sway — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
- taky — appealing
- they — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- tidy — neat, orderly, or trim, as in appearance or dress: a tidy room; a tidy person.
- tiny — very small; minute; wee.
- toby — Also, Toby, Toby jug. a mug in the form of a stout old man wearing a three-cornered hat.
- tody — any of several small West Indian birds of the family Todidae, related to the motmots and kingfishers, having brightly colored green and red plumage.
- toey — touchy or restive; apprehensive; fractious.
- tony — high-toned; stylish: a tony nightclub.
- tory — a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- towy — of the nature of or resembling the fiber tow.
- tray — a coin worth threepence.
- trey — a playing card or a die having three pips.
- troy — expressed or computed in troy weight.
- tuny — having an easily discernable melody
- typy — (of a domestic animal) embodying the ideal characteristics of its variety or breed.
- ugly — very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- uhry — Alfred, born 1936, U.S. playwright.
- urdy — a heraldic line pattern
- urey — Harold Clayton [kleyt-n] /ˈkleɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1893–1981, U.S. chemist: Nobel prize 1934.
- vary — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- very — in a high degree; extremely; exceedingly: A giant is very tall.
- vimy — a town in N France, N of Arras: battle 1917.
- viny — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling vines: viny tendrils.
- vizy — a look or aim at a target
- wady — wadi.
- waly — (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) An exclamation of grief.
- wany — Also, waney. waning; decreasing; diminished in part.
- wary — watchful; being on one's guard against danger.
- wavy — curving alternately in opposite directions; undulating: a wavy course; wavy hair.
- waxy — angry.
- wery — Eye dialect of very.
- whey — a milk serum, separating as liquid from the curd after coagulation, as in cheese making.
- wily — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
- winy — of, like, or characteristic of wine.
- wiry — made of wire.
- wiyy — Winter Island Yacht Yard
- wkly — weekly
- wncy — Western North Carolina YMCA
- wpfy — Were Pulling For You
- wray — (obsolete) To denounce (a person).
- wwry — We Will Rock You