I am trying to create a list of words that only contain the letter "y" as the words only vowel. More than one "y" is even better. does anyone know of a web dictionary or other source of info where I could find or search for these words? My best find so far is "syzygy"

Well i am sure you already have these on your list..
Rhythm
Styx

but maybe my post will generate more interest-- since i am sure other can come up with longer, and less common words.

Hymn
and words containing that word, such as
hymnal
hymnbook

pyx

I can't top syzygy. I guess you have these too:

lynx
jynx

yours,
the onyxmonger

Thy Hi F!

I would have posted earlier on this thread, but I was too diffident

and, in addition, I didn't see it with my little eye until just now

how about lyre, or would you prefer the truth?

by
my
why

George Borrow, while researching Romany Rye and Wild Wales, heard tales of travellers' children who sneaked in and enchanted the pigs in the valleys by singing sacred songs, and rose up into the air with them.

This might be the origin of the expression "pigs might fly".

Or it could just be my cwm hymn fly-by-sty shy pygmy gypsy myth.

LKB - you'll find something similar at the site below. It's known to regulars here and has lots of fun words to astound folks at dinner parties.

http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words10.html


Ply Peterson

From BY's site:
"There are 7 Y's in GLYCYLGLYCYLGLYCYLGLYCINE, which is in DOC, and a legitimate use of which has been found on the Internet."
If I heard someone say that, I think I'd be tempted to tell them they really ought to do something about that stutter.

A legitimate chemical website goes one better:
http://www.rcdc.nd.edu/compilations/Eaq/EAQ1263.HTM

This is a description of reaction rates in glycylglycylglycylglycylglycine.

The structure of the amino acid glycine means this can be compounded in arbitrarily long chains. It's CH2(NH2)COOH, and the chaining lops off either an H from NH2 or an OH from the COOH, giving CH2(NH-)COOH at one end, CH2(NH2)CO+ at the other, and as many CH2(NH-)CO+ as you please between them.

Great try, but the glycine has an I and an E. These words can only have "Y" as only vowel.

Thanks for the link. Lots of great "y" words

> glycine has an I and an E

Ionize the molecule and you have a glycyl...glycyl ion, to whatever desired length.

and, as several afterthoughts:

ply, try, shy, sly, spy, sty

(that's enough for tonight!)

spry, glyph, gyppy, gyp, gymp, sylph, lynch

Sara.