Alternative spelling of air (especially when referring to the form of music).
cry
cry
noun
(by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
(collectively) A group of hounds.
(obsolete) Common report; gossip.
(of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
A clamour or outcry.
A desperate or urgent request.
A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
A shout or scream.
Words shouted or screamed.
verb
(intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
(intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
(transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
(transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
(transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
dry
dry
adj
(Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
(aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
(chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
(figurative) Athirst, eager.
(fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
(humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
(law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
(masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
(of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
(sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
(wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Free from or lacking moisture.
Lacking interest, boring.
Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
noun
(Australia) An area of waterless country.
(Britain, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
(US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
(chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
The process by which something is dried.
Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
verb
(intransitive) To lose moisture.
(intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
(transitive) To remove moisture from.
(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
eyr
fry
fry
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, cooking) The liver of a lamb.
(Ireland, Britain, cooking) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
(UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
(archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.
(colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
(now chiefly UK dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
(usually in the plural, fries, US, cooking) A lamb or calf testicle.
(usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A fried piece of cut potato.
A drain.
A kind of sieve.
Young fish; fishlings.
verb
(chiefly US, intransitive, slang) To be executed by the electric chair.
(intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
(intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
(obsolete) to simmer; to boil
(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
(transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
gry
gry
adj
Abbreviation of grey or gray (the color)
noun
(archaic) A small amount.
(archaic) One hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by John Locke
A fit of ague.
Abbreviation of gray or grey (the color)
verb
(dialectal) To have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).
ory
pry
pry
noun
(East Anglia, US) A tool for levering; a crowbar, a lever.
A person who is very inquisitive or nosy; a busybody, a nosey parker.
An act of prying; a close and curious look.
verb
(figuratively) To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
(figuratively) Usually followed by out (of): to draw out or get (information, etc.) with effort.
(transitive, obsolete) To peer at (something) closely; also, to look into (a matter, etc.) thoroughly.
To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize.
pyr
ray
ray
noun
(botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
(colloquial) A tiny amount.
(mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
(music) Alternative form of re
(obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
(obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
(zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
(zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
A beam of light or radiation.
A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
verb
(intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
(now rare) To dress, array (someone).
(obsolete) To arrange.
(obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
(transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
(transitive) To expose to radiation.
rey
rly
rly
adv
(Internet slang) Abbreviation of really.
noun
Abbreviation of railway.
roy
roy
adj
(obsolete) Royal.
noun
(obsolete, formal) A king.
ruy
rwy
rya
rya
noun
A Scandinavian knotted-pile woollen rug, used as bed-cover and tapestry.
rye
rye
noun
(US, Canada) A drink of rye.
(US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
A disease of hawks.
A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
Rye bread.
Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
syr
try
try
adj
(obsolete) Fine, excellent.
noun
(American football) A field goal or extra point
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
(chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
(rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
An act of tasting or sampling.
verb
(euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
(figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
(law) To put on trial.
(nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil
(nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
(obsolete) To do; to fare.
(one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.
(slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want
(specifically) To test someone's patience.
(with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
To extract wax from a honeycomb
To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
To put to test.
To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
To taste, sample, etc.
To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
tyr
ury
wry
wry
adj
Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
Twisted, bent, crooked.
noun
(regional) Distortion.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
(obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away.
(transitive) To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).
(transitive, obsolete) To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.
yar
yar
adj
(UK dialectal) Sour; brackish.
(nautical, of a vessel, especially sailboat) Quick and agile; easy to hand, reef and steer.
verb
(intransitive) To snarl; to gnar.
(intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To growl, especially like a dog; quarrel; to be captious or troublesome.
yer
yer
abbrev
(UK, slang or dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of you're, you are.
adv
(UK, slang or dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of yeah, yes.
det
(UK or Southern US, slang or dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of your.
noun
Either of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.
pron
(UK, slang or dialectal, uncommon) Pronunciation spelling of you. (plural or singular)