(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.
cary
cray
cray
noun
A crayfish or lobster.
cyra
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.
eyra
eyra
noun
A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas.
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.
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.
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.
iyar
iyar
Proper noun
The eighth month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar, after Nisan and before Sivan.
jary
kary
kyar
kyra
kyra
Proper noun
name of modern usage.
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.
mary
mary
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Mary (“male homosexual”)
myra
nary
nary
adj
Not any.
adv
Not, never.
oary
oary
adj
Like an oar
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.
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
ryal
ryal
noun
Alternative form of rial
ryan
ryas
ryas
noun
plural of rya
tray
tray
noun
(Australia) The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.
(LGBT slang) A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)
(by extension) The items on a full tray.
(computing, business) A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
(computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.
(obsolete) trouble; annoyance; anger
A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
Alternative form of trey (“third branch of deer's antler”)
verb
(intransitive) to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
(transitive) to place (items) on a tray
(transitive, obsolete) to betray
(transitive, obsolete) to grieve; to annoy
tyra
vary
vary
noun
(obsolete) alteration; change.
verb
(intransitive) Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
(intransitive) To be or act different from the usual.
(intransitive, obsolete) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
(of the members of a group, intransitive) To display differences.
(transitive) To change with time or a similar parameter.
(transitive) To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
(transitive) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
(transitive, music) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation.
wary
wary
adj
Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent
Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard
thrifty, provident
wray
wray
verb
(obsolete) To betray.
(obsolete) To denounce (a person).
(obsolete) To reveal (a secret).
xray
yair
yair
noun
(Northern England, Scotland) An enclosure for catching salmon as the tide ebbs.
yarb
yarb
noun
(UK, dialect, archaic) herb
yard
yard
noun
(Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
(US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
(US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
(finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
(nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
(obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
(obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
(obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.
(obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
(obsolete, medicine) A penis.
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
verb
(intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.
(transitive) To confine to a yard.
yare
yare
adj
(UK dialectal) Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
(archaic) Ready; prepared.
(nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and responsive to the helm; yar.
Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
adv
(archaic) Yarely.
noun
Alternative form of yair
yark
yark
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To make ready; prepare.
(transitive, obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
(transitive, obsolete) To set open; open.
To crack (a whip).
To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
yarl
yarl
noun
A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.
verb
To sing in this manner.
yarm
yarm
noun
(UK dialectal) An outcry; noise.
verb
(UK dialectal) To cry out; make a loud, unpleasant noise; shriek; yell.
(UK dialectal) To scold; grumble.
yarn
yarn
noun
(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
(nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
verb
To tell a story or stories.
yarr
yarr
intj
Alternative form of arr (“used stereotypically in imitation of pirates”)
noun
(UK, dialect) The plant Spergula arvensis, corn spurry.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To growl or snarl like a dog.
yaru
year
year
noun
(by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
(sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
A level or grade in school or college.
A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.
A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
Pronunciation spelling of hear.
Pronunciation spelling of here.
The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).