(of a room or building) Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
(painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
Consisting of air.
Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
an airy situation
light-hearted; vivacious
ardy
arly
army
army
noun
(figuratively) A large group of people working toward the same purpose.
(figuratively) A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.
(figuratively) Any multitude.
(often capitalized) Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions).
A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.
The military as a whole.
Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces.
arny
arry
arty
arty
adj
(sometimes derogatory) Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.
Inclined towards the arts.
noun
(military, slang) An artillery crew member.
(military, slang) Artillery.
arvy
arvy
noun
(UK, informal) Afternoon.
arya
arya
Proper noun
name of modern usage.
aryl
aryl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any univalent organic radical derived from an aromatic hydrocarbon by removing a hydrogen atom.
aryn
atry
awry
awry
adj
(figurative) Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course
Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.
adv
Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
Perversely, improperly.
ayer
ayre
ayre
noun
A narrow bar of sand or gravel formed by the sea; a sandbank.
Archaic spelling of air.
bary
bray
bray
noun
(by extension) Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound.
The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel.
verb
(intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
(intransitive, by extension) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
(transitive) To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner.
(transitive, Britain, chiefly Yorkshire, by extension) To hit (someone or something).
(transitive, archaic) To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar.
brey
bryn
btry
bury
bury
noun
(obsolete) A burrow.
A borough; a manor
verb
(transitive) To place in the ground.
(transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
(transitive, figurative, humorous) To outlive.
(transitive, figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
(transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
(transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
(transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
(transitive, often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
byrd
byre
byre
noun
(chiefly Britain) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
byrl
byrl
verb
Alternative form of birle
byrn
cary
cery
chry
cory
cory
noun
Any fish belonging to the genus Corydoras, a group of South American freshwater catfish.
cray
cray
noun
A crayfish or lobster.
crcy
croy
croy
noun
(Scottish) a natural or man-made protrusion or jetty projecting on a river and used to manage river fisheries, providing an obstacle to slow down current, a shelter for fish, a funnel to net them, and a platform to cast from.
cury
cyra
dory
dory
adj
(obsolete) Of a bright yellow or golden color.
noun
(nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.
Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
dray
dray
noun
A kind of sledge or sled.
A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
Alternative spelling of drey, the nest of a squirrel.
drey
drey
noun
(Australia) A possum’s nest, built of twigs and leaves in a tree.
(Britain) A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree.
drye
drys
dyer
dyer
noun
One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.
eery
eery
adj
Alternative spelling of eerie
eiry
erny
ervy
eryn
eryx
ewry
ewry
noun
Alternative form of ewery
eyer
eyer
noun
One who eyes someone or something.
eyra
eyra
noun
A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas.
eyre
eyre
noun
(UK, law, historical) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).
eyry
eyry
noun
(rare) Alternative spelling of eyrie
firy
firy
adj
Obsolete form of fiery.
fray
fray
noun
(archaic or obsolete) A consequence of rubbing, unravelling, or wearing away; a fraying; also, a place where fraying has occurred.
(countable) A loud noise; a cacophony, a din.
(countable) A noisy commotion, especially resulting from fighting; a brawl, a fight; also, a loud quarrel.
(countable) An assault or attack.
(countable, figuratively) A heated argument; a war of words.
(except Scotland, uncountable) Fright, terror; (countable) an instance of this.
(uncountable) Conflict, disagreement.
verb
(also figuratively) To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.
(except poetic) To alarm or frighten (someone or something).
(figuratively) Of a person's mental strength, nerves, temper, etc.: to become exhausted or worn out.
(obsolete) To bruise (someone or something); also, to take the virginity of (someone, usually a female person); to deflower.
(specifically) Of a deer: to rub (its antlers or head) against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet from antlers or to mark territory; also, to rub its antlers against (a tree, etc.) for that purpose.
(specifically) Of a deer: to rub its antlers against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet or to mark territory.
(transitive, obsolete, rare) To bear the expense of (something); to defray.
Often followed by away, off, or out: to frighten or scare (someone or something) away.
To assail or attack (someone or something); to drive (someone or something) away by attacking.
To be afraid or frightened; to fear.
To become unravelled or worn; to unravel.
To chase (someone or something) away; to disperse.
To force or make (a path, way, etc.) through.
To make an assault or attack; also, to create a disturbance; to brawl, to fight.
To rub.
frey
frwy
fryd
frye
fury
fury
noun
(obsolete) A thief.
An angry or malignant person.
Extreme anger.
Strength or violence in action.
fyrd
fyrd
noun
(historical) In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
gary
gary
Proper noun
A city in Indiana, and other US places named for persons with the surname Gary.
A city in South Dakota
name, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s.
gery
gory
gory
adj
(informal) Unpleasant.
Covered with blood; very bloody.
gray
gray
adj
Dreary, gloomy.
Gray-haired.
Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
Old.
Relating to older people.
noun
(US, two-up) A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
(chiefly US, ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy
verb
(demography, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
(transitive, photography) To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
To become gray.
To cause to become gray.
grey
grey
adj
(South Africa, slang) Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).
UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
gyor
gyre
gyre
noun
(anatomy, zootomy, archaic) Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”)
(oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
A swirling vortex.
verb
(intransitive) To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.
(transitive, rare) To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.
gyri
gyro
gyro
noun
(cycling) Synonym of detangler.
A gyrocompass.
A gyroscope.
A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.
An autogyro.
hery
hory
hory
adj
Alternative form of horry
irby
iyar
iyar
Proper noun
The eighth month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar, after Nisan and before Sivan.
iyre
jary
jory
jury
jury
adj
(nautical) For temporary use; applied to a temporary contrivance.
noun
(law) A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.
(theater, slang) The audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails.
A group of judges in a competition.
verb
To judge by means of a jury.
kary
kery
kory
krym
krym
Proper noun
Crimea
krys
kyar
kyra
kyra
Proper noun
name of modern usage.
llyr
lory
lyra
lyra
noun
(anatomy, dated) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.
A bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece.
A bowed string musical instrument used in the Byzantine Empire.
A vertically suspended hoop used in acrobatic performances.
lyre
lyre
noun
(obsolete) A composer of lyric poetry.
A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
verb
(rare) to play the lyre
mary
mary
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Mary (“male homosexual”)
miry
miry
adj
Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy.
myer
myra
myrt
nary
nary
adj
Not any.
adv
Not, never.
oary
oary
adj
Like an oar
oory
orby
orby
adj
(obsolete) having characteristics of an orb
orgy
orgy
noun
A gathering of people to engage in group sex.
Excessive indulgence in a specified activity.
Originally, secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behaviour, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honour of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc). [from 16th c.]
orly
oryx
oryx
noun
Any of several antelopes, of the genus Oryx, native to Africa, which have long, straight horns
oyer
oyer
noun
(law, archaic) A hearing in a civil case which is based on the content of a document, in which the plaintiff is required to produce the document.
pory
pory
adj
(archaic) porous
pray
pray
adv
(archaic or formal) Please; used to make a polite request
Alternative form of pray tell (“I ask you (insincerely)”)
verb
(obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
(obsolete) To implore, to entreat, to request.
(religion) To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.
prey
prey
noun
(archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war
(archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
A person or thing given up as a victim.
That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured
The victim of a disease.
verb
(intransitive) To act as a predator.
prys
pyre
pyre
noun
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
Any heap or pile of combustibles.
pyro
pyro
adj
Pyromaniac, pyromaniacal.
Pyrotechnic.
noun
(archaic, especially photography) Pyrogallol, pyrogallic acid.
(slang) A pyromaniac.
Pyrocellulose.
Pyrotechnician.
Pyrotechnics.
racy
racy
adj
(figurative, by extension) Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
(programming) Involving a data race or a race condition.
Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.
Mildly risqué.
raya
raya
noun
Alternative form of rayah
raye
rays
rays
noun
plural of ray
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ray
rely
rely
verb
(with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
remy
rhys
rimy
rimy
adj
Coated in rime.
rivy
rixy
roby
roey
roky
roky
adj
(UK, dialect) Misty; foggy; cloudy.
Exhibiting roke (a defect in steel ingots).
romy
ropy
ropy
adj
(Britain, colloquial) Of poor quality; in poor health.
(of milk or another liquid) Slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.
Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
rory
rory
adj
(obsolete) Covered by dew.
(obsolete) Of gaudy, tasteless, or unsubtle colors.
rosy
rosy
adj
(figuratively) Optimistic.
Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume.
Rose-coloured.
noun
(slang, Britain) tea
verb
(transitive) To make pinkish in colour.
(transitive) To present in a deceptively optimistic or positive light.
rowy
roxy
roxy
Proper noun
A diminutive of the female given names Roxana, Roxane, or Roxanne.
royd
roye
royo
royt
rtty
ruby
ruby
adj
Of a deep red colour.
noun
(heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
(obsolete) A red spinel.
(uncountable, printing, UK, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
A deep red colour.
A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.
A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
verb
(transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.
rudy
rudy
noun
(sports, aerial freestyle skiing) An acrobatic maneuver involving two and a half twists.
ruly
ruly
adj
(obsolete) Pitiable; miserable.
(rare) Neat and orderly.
adv
(obsolete) Pitiably; miserably.
ryal
ryal
noun
Alternative form of rial
ryan
ryas
ryas
noun
plural of rya
ryde
ryen
ryes
ryes
noun
plural of rye
ryke
ryle
ryme
rynd
rynd
noun
A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone, by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
rynt
rynt
verb
(archaic, reflexive) stand off; move away (said by milkmaids to their cows after milking them)
ryon
ryot
ryot
noun
(India) A farmer or tiller of the soil.
rype
rype
adj
Obsolete spelling of ripe
noun
A bird, the ptarmigan.
ryun
scry
scry
noun
(obsolete) A cry or shout.
A flock of wildfowl.
verb
(obsolete) To descry; to see.
To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects.
sory
sory
noun
(chemistry, obsolete) green vitriol, or some earth impregnated with it
spry
spry
adj
Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
Vigorous; lively; cheerful.
styr
syre
syre
noun
Obsolete form of sire.
syrt
syrt
noun
A kind of elevated flatland in Russia and Central Asia.