Here is a list of words that end in ‘yed.’ There is a total of 143 ‘yed’ ending words with their definition in this list. Many English words are no longer used in literary works. So, those are not included here.
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Abyed
- To suffer a penalty for
Affrayed
- Fray, brawl
- A fight in a public place that disturbs the peace
- Startle, frighten
- A noisy fight between two or more people in a public place
- A fight between two or more people in a public place that disturbs the peace
Allayed
- To subdue or reduce in intensity or severity alleviate
- To make quiet calm
- To diminish in strength subside
- To make (something) less severe or strong
- To make less severe
Alleyed
- Furnished with alleys forming an alley
Alloyed
- The degree of mixture with base metals fineness
- A substance composed of two or more metals or of a metal and a nonmetal intimately united usually by being fused together and dissolving in each other when molten
- The state of union of the components
- An admixture that lessens value
- An impairing alien element
Annoyed
- Feeling or showing angry irritation
Arrayed
- To place (a group of things) in a particular position so that they are in order or so that they look attractive
- To dress (someone, especially yourself) in fine clothing
- To put (soldiers) in a place or position so that they are ready to attack
- To dress or decorate especially in splendid or impressive attire adorn
- To set or place in order draw up, marshal
Assayed
- To analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components
- To judge the worth of estimate
- Try, attempt
- To prove up in an assay
- Examination and determination as to characteristics (such as weight, measure, or quality)
Bayed
- Reddish brown
- An animal that is a reddish-brown color
- A horse with a bay-colored body and black mane, tail, and points
- A reddish brown
- A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building or of the whole building
Belayed
- To secure (a rope or cable) by turns around a cleat, pin, or bitt
- To make fast to fasten down
- Stop, cancel
- To secure (a person) at the end of a rope
- To secure (a rope) to a person or object
Berleyed
- Bait that is scattered on water in order to attract fish ground bait
- To use berley to attract fish
Betrayed
- Treacherously abandoned, deserted, or mistreated
Bewrayed
- Divulge, betray
Bogeyed
- Specter, phantom
- A source of fear, perplexity, or harassment
- One stroke over par on a hole
- An average golfer’s score used as a standard for a particular hole or course
- A numerical standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at especially in competition
Boogeyed
- Boogie-woogie
- Earthy and strongly rhythmic rock music conducive to dancing
- A period of or occasion for dancing to this music
- To dance to rock music
- Revel, party
Brayed
- To utter the characteristic loud harsh cry of a donkey
- To utter a sound like a donkey’s
- To utter or play loudly or harshly
- To crush or grind fine
- To spread thin
Buckeyed
- Poisoned by buckeye or one of its products (such as seeds or honey)
Buoyed
- Float
- A floating object moored to the bottom to mark a channel or something (such as a shoal) lying under the water
- Life buoy
- To mark by or as if by a float or buoy
- To keep afloat
Cloyed
- To supply with an unwanted or distasteful excess usually of something originally pleasing
- To be or become insipid or distasteful usually through an excess of an originally pleasurable quality (such as sweetness)
Cockeyed
- Having a cockeye
- Askew, awry
- Slightly crazy topsy-turvy
- Drunk
- Turned or tilted to one side not straight
Conveyed
- To take or carry (someone or something) from one place to another transport
- To make (something) known to someone
- To change the ownership of (property) from one person to another
- To bear from one place to another
- To move in a continuous stream or mass
Convoyed
- Accompany
- To escort for protection
- One that convoys
- A protective escort (as for ships)
- The act of convoying
Corduroyed
- Trousers of corduroy fabric
- A durable usually cotton pile fabric with vertical ribs or wales
- Logs laid side by side transversely to make a road surface
- To build (a road) of logs laid side by side transversely
- To build a corduroy road across
Cosplayed
- The activity or practice of dressing up as a character from a work of fiction (such as a comic book, video game, or television show)
- To engage in cosplay
- To dress up as (a fictional character) in cosplay
Cowboyed
- One who tends cattle or horses
- A usually mounted cattle-ranch hand
- A rodeo performer
- One having qualities (such as recklessness, aggressiveness, or independence) popularly associated with cowboyssuch as
- A reckless driver
Coyed
- Marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness
- Shrinking from contact or familiarity
- Showing reluctance to make a definite commitment
- Caress
- To act coyly (see coy entry 1)
Curtseyed
- An act of civility, respect, or reverence made mainly by women and consisting of a slight lowering of the body with bending of the knees
- To make a curtsy
- A formal way of greeting an important person (such as a king or queen) in which a woman shows respect by placing one foot slightly behind the other and bending her knees
- To lower the body slightly by bending the knees as an act of politeness or respect
- An act of politeness or respect made by women and consisting of a slight lowering of the body by bending the knees
Decayed
- To undergo decomposition
- To decline in health, strength, or vigor
- To fall into ruin
- To decline from a sound or prosperous condition
- To decrease usually gradually in size, quantity, activity, or force
Decoyed
- A pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture
- Someone or something used to lure or lead another into a trap
- An artificial bird used to attract live birds within shot
- Someone or something used to draw attention away from another
- To lure by or as if by a decoy entice
Defrayed
- To provide for the payment of pay
- To bear the expenses of (a person)
- To pay for (something)
Delayed
- The act of postponing, hindering, or causing something to occur more slowly than normal the state of being delayed
- An instance of being delayed
- The time during which something is delayed
- Put off, postpone
- To stop, detain, or hinder for a time
Deployed
- To extend (a military unit) especially in width
- To place in battle formation or appropriate positions
- To spread out, utilize, or arrange for a deliberate purpose
- To move, spread out, or function while being deployed
- To organize and send out (people or things) to be used for a particular purpose
Destroyed
- To ruin the structure, organic existence, or condition of
- To ruin as if by tearing to shreds
- To put out of existence kill
- Neutralize
- Annihilate, vanquish
Disarrayed
- A lack of order or sequence confusion, disorder
- Disorderly dress dishabille
- To throw into disorder
- Undress
- A lack of order a confused or messy condition
Dismayed
- Experiencing or showing feelings of alarmed concern or dismay upset, worried, or agitated because of some unwelcome situation or occurrence
Disobeyed
- To be disobedient
- To fail to obey
- To not do what someone or something with authority tells you to do to refuse or fail to obey rules, laws, etc.
- To refuse or fail to behave as told or taught
Displayed
- To put or spread before the view
- To make evident
- To exhibit ostentatiously
- Descry
- To make a breeding display
Downplayed
- Play down, de-emphasize
- To make (something) seem smaller or less important
Drayed
- A vehicle used to haul goods
- A strong cart or wagon without sides
- To haul on a dray cart
Dyed
- Color from dyeing
- A soluble or insoluble coloring matter
- To impart a new and often permanent color to especially by impregnating with a dye
- To impart (a color) by dyeing
- To take up or impart color in dyeing
Embayed
- To trap or catch in or as if in a bay
Employed
- To make use of (someone or something inactive)
- To use (something, such as time) advantageously
- To use or engage the services of
- To provide with a job that pays wages or a salary
- To devote to or direct toward a particular activity or person
Enjoyed
- To have a good time
- To have for one’s use, benefit, or lot experience
- To take pleasure or satisfaction in
- To have a good time
- To take pleasure in (something)
Epoxyed
- Epoxy resin
- To glue, fill, or coat with epoxy resin
- Containing oxygen attached to two different atoms already united in some other way
- Containing a 3-membered ring consisting of one oxygen and two carbon atoms
- Of or relating to an epoxide
Essayed
- An analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view
- Something resembling such a composition
- Effort, attempt
- An initial tentative effort
- The result or product of an attempt
Estrayed
- Stray
Eyed
- Having an eye or eyes especially of a specified kind or number
- Having an eye or eyes of a specified kind or number
Fayed
- To fit or join closely or tightly
- Faith
- Fairy, elf
- Resembling an elf
- Ofay
Flayed
- To strip off the skin or surface of skin
- To criticize harshly excoriate
- Lash
- To beat or whip (someone or something) in a very violent and severe way
- To strip off the skin or surface of
Fleyed
- Frighten
Flyed
- Past tense of FLY
Forayed
- A sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils raid
- An initial and often tentative attempt to do something in a new or different field or area of activity
- To make a raid or brief invasion
- To do or attempt something outside one’s accustomed sphere to enter into a new or different field or area of activity
- To ravage in search of spoils pillage
Frayed
- Worn or shredded at the ends or edges
- Damaged, weakened, or worn down by strain or irritation
Gleyed
- A sticky clay soil or soil layer formed under the surface of some waterlogged soils
Grayed
- Having a color between black and white having a color that is like the color of smoke
- Having gray hair
- Cloudy and dark
- Of the color gray
- Tending toward gray
Greyed
- Having a color between black and white having a color that is like the color of smoke
- Having gray hair
- Cloudy and dark
- Of the color gray
- Tending toward gray
Guyed
- Man, fellow
- Person
- Individual, creature
- A grotesque effigy of guy fawkes traditionally displayed and burned in england on guy fawkes day
- A person of grotesque appearance
Hackneyed
- Lacking in freshness or originality
- Not interesting, funny, etc., because of being used too often not fresh or original
Hawkeyed
- Having keen sight
Hayed
- Herbage and especially grass mowed and cured for fodder
- Reward
- Bed
- A small sum of money
- To cut, cure, and store hay
Holidayed
- Holy day
- A day on which one is exempt from work
- A day marked by a general suspension of work in commemoration of an event
- Vacation
- A period of exemption or relief
Honeyed
- Made with or having honey
- Resembling honey
- Pleasingly sweet
Ixnayed
- To reject or put a stop to (something) nix
- No, nix
Jockeyed
- A person who rides or drives a horse especially as a professional in a race
- A person who operates or works with a specified vehicle, device, object, or material
- To maneuver or manipulate by adroit or devious means
- To change the position of by a series of movements
- To ride or drive (a horse) as a jockey
Journeyed
- An act of traveling from one place to another trip
- Something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another
- An act or instance of traveling from one place to another trip
- A day’s travel
- To go on a journey travel
Joyed
- A feeling of great happiness
- A source or cause of great happiness something or someone that gives joy to someone
- Success in doing, finding, or getting something
- The emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires delight
- The expression or exhibition of such emotion gaiety
Keyed
- A usually metal instrument by which the bolt of a lock is turned
- Any of various devices having the form or function of such a key
- A means of gaining or preventing entrance, possession, or control
- An instrumental or deciding factor
- Something that gives an explanation or identification or provides a solution
Kurveyed
- To carry goods about in an ox wagon in southern africa
Lackeyed
- Footman, servant
- Someone who does menial tasks or runs errands for another
- A servile follower toady
- To serve as a lackey toady
- To wait upon or serve obsequiously
Misemployed
- To use (something) in a wrong or harmful way
Moneyed
- Having money wealthy
- Consisting in or derived from money
- Having a lot of money very rich
- Consisting in or derived from money
Monkeyed
- A nonhuman primate mammal with the exception usually of the lemurs and tarsiers
- Any of the smaller longer-tailed catarrhine or platyrrhine primates as contrasted with the apes
- A person resembling a monkey
- A ludicrous figure dupe
- Any of various machines, implements, or vessels
Moseyed
- To hurry away
- To move in a leisurely or aimless manner saunter
- To walk or move in a slow and relaxed way
Obeyed
- To follow the commands or guidance of
- To conform to or comply with
- To behave obediently
- To do what someone tells you to do or what a rule, law, etc., says you must do
- To follow the commands or guidance of
Okayed
- All right
- Approval, endorsement
- Approve, authorize
- Oklahoma
- Fairly well well enough
Outplayed
- To play better than
- To outdo in playing a game
- To play better than (a person or team)
Outprayed
- To pray more or more effectively than to outdo or surpass in praying
Outstayed
- Overstay
- To surpass in staying power
- Overstay
Overjoyed
- Feeling great joy
- Filled with great joy very happy
- Filled with great joy
Overplayed
- To present (a dramatic role) extravagantly exaggerate
- To place too much emphasis on
- To rely too much on the strength of
- To strike a golf ball beyond (a putting green)
- To exaggerate a part or effect
Overstayed
- To stay beyond the time or the limits of
- To stay longer than you are expected or allowed to stay
- To stay beyond or longer than
Parlayed
- To bet in a parlay
- To exploit successfully
- To increase or otherwise transform into something of much greater value
- A series of two or more bets so set up in advance that the original stake plus its winnings are risked on the successive wagers
- The fresh risking of an original stake together with its winnings
Parleyed
- To speak with another confer
- To discuss terms with an enemy
- A conference for discussion of points in dispute
- A conference with an enemy
- Discussion
Parsleyed
- Garnished or flavored with parsley
Payed
- To make due return to for services rendered or property delivered
- To engage for money hire
- To give in return for goods or service
- To discharge indebtedness for settle
- To make a disposal or transfer of (money)
Played
- A piece of writing that tells a story through the actions and words of characters and that is performed on a stage
- Activities that are done especially by children for fun or enjoyment
- The action that happens during a game
- Swordplay
- Game, sport
Portrayed
- To make a picture of depict
- To describe in words
- To play the role of enact
- To describe (someone or something) in a particular way
- To show (someone or something) in a painting, book, etc.
Prayed
- Entreat, implore
- To get or bring by praying
- To make a request in a humble manner
- To address god or a god with adoration, confession, supplication, or thanksgiving
- To speak to god especially in order to give thanks or to ask for something
Preyed
- An animal taken by a predator as food
- One that is helpless or unable to resist attack victim
- The act or habit of preying
- Spoil, booty
- To seize and devour prey
Purveyed
- To supply (something, such as provisions) usually as a matter of business
- Peddle
Rayed
- Any of an order (rajiformes) of usually marine cartilaginous fishes (such as stingrays and skates) having the body flattened dorsoventrally, the eyes on the upper surface, and enlarged pectoral fins fused with the head
- Any of the lines of light that appear to radiate from a bright object
- A beam of radiant energy (such as light) of small cross section
- A stream of material particles traveling in the same line (as in radioactive phenomena)
- A single particle of such a stream
Reconveyed
- To convey back to a previous position or owner
- To convey back or again
Redeployed
- To transfer from one area or activity to another
- To relocate personnel or equipment
- To move (soldiers or equipment) to a new area
- To move (something, such as money) from one area or activity to another
Redisplayed
- To display (something) again
Reemployed
- To employ (someone or something) again
Rekeyed
- To key (something) again
- To provide (something) with a new key
Relayed
- A supply (as of horses) arranged beforehand for successive relief
- A number of persons who relieve others in some work
- A race between teams in which each team member successively covers a specified portion of the course
- One of the divisions of a relay
- An electromagnetic device for remote or automatic control that is actuated by variation in conditions of an electric circuit and that operates in turn other devices (such as switches) in the same or a different circuit
Replayed
- To play again or over
- An act or instance of replaying
- The playing of a tape (such as a videotape)
- Repetition, reenactment
- To play (a game) again because there was no winner in a previous game
Resprayed
- To spray (something or someone) again
- To disperse or apply (something) as a spray again
Resurveyed
- To survey (something or someone) again
Samoyed
- A member of any of a group of peoples inhabiting the far north of european russia and parts of northwestern siberia
- The family of uralic languages spoken by the samoyed people
- Any of a siberian breed of medium-sized white or cream-colored sled dogs
Sashayed
- To strut or move about in an ostentatious or conspicuous manner
- Walk, glide, go
- To proceed or move in a diagonal or sideways manner
- To make a chassé
- Trip, excursion
Savoyed
- Curled and wrinkled
- Abnormally wrinkled as a result of disease (as a virus infection)
Skyed
- The upper atmosphere or expanse of space that constitutes an apparent great vault or arch over the earth
- Heaven
- Weather in the upper atmosphere
- Climate
- To throw or toss up flip
Slayed
- To kill violently, wantonly, or in great numbers
- To strike down kill
- To delight or amuse immensely
- To do something or perform exceptionally well or impressively to be exceptionally impressive
- To kill (someone or something) especially in a battle or war
Spayed
- To remove the ovaries and uterus of (a female animal)
- To remove the sex organs of (a female animal) to make (a female animal) unable to have babies
- To remove the ovaries of (a female animal)
- To remove the ovaries and uterus of (a female animal)
Splayed
- To cause to spread outward
- To make oblique bevel
- To extend apart or outward especially in an awkward manner
- Slope, slant
- A slope or bevel especially of the sides of a door or window
Sprayed
- A usually flowering branch or shoot
- A decorative flat arrangement of flowers and foliage (as on a coffin)
- Something (such as a jeweled pin) resembling a spray
- Water flying in small drops or particles blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall
- A jet of vapor or finely divided liquid
Stayed
- A large strong rope usually of wire used to support a mast
- Guy
- To secure upright with or as if with stays
- To incline (a mast) forward, aft, or to one side by the stays
- To go about tack
Storeyed
- Decorated with designs representing scenes from story or history
- Having an interesting history celebrated in story or history
- Having stories
Strayed
- A domestic animal that is wandering at large or is lost
- A person or thing that strays
- The act of going astray
- Wandersuch as
- To wander from company, restraint, or proper limits
Stroyed
- Destroy
Styed
- Pigpen
- To lodge or keep in a sty
- To live in a sty
- An inflamed swelling of a sebaceous gland at the margin of an eyelid
Subemployed
- Underemployed
Surveyed
- To ask (many people) a question or a series of questions in order to gather information about what most people do or think about something
- To look at and examine all parts of (something)
- To measure and examine (an area of land)
- To examine as to condition, situation, or value appraise
- To query (someone) in order to collect data for the analysis of some aspect of a group or area
Swayed
- The action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion
- An inclination or deflection caused by or as if by swaying
- A controlling influence
- Sovereign power dominion
- The ability to exercise influence or authority dominance
Tourneyed
- Tournament
- To perform in a tournament
Toyed
- Something for a child to play with
- Something diminutive
- A diminutive animal (as of a small breed or variety)
- Something that can be toyed with
- Something (such as a preoccupation) that is paltry or trifling
Trolleyed
- A streetcar powered electrically through a trolley
- A device that carries electric current from an overhead wire to an electrically driven vehicle
- A wheeled carriage running on an overhead rail or track
- A cart or wheeled stand used for conveying something (such as food or books)
- A cart of any of various kinds
Unallayed
- Unalloyed
Unalloyed
- Not alloyed unmixed, unqualified, pure
- Not mixed with something else pure
- Pure
Unassayed
- Not assayed unattempted
Unconvoyed
- Not accompanied or escorted by a protective convoy
Undelayed
- Not delayed immediate
Underemployed
- Having less than full-time, regular, or adequate employment
- Having a job that does not use your skills
Underplayed
- To play a role with subdued force
- To act or present (a role, a scene, etc.) with restraint play down
- To play a card lower than (a held high card)
- To make (something) seem less important than it actually is to give too little attention to (something)
- To show too little emotion when acting in a play, movie, etc.
Undismayed
- Not upset or perturbed not dismayed
- Not worried or upset
Undyed
- Not dyed
Unemployed
- Not employed:
- Not being used
- Not engaged in a gainful occupation
- Not invested
- Having no job not employed
Unenjoyed
- Not enjoyedsuch as
- Not partaken of unused
- Giving no joy dreary, joyless
Unessayed
- Not essayed unattempted
Uneyed
- Unobserved, unseen
Unhackneyed
- Not hackneyed fresh, original
Unmoneyed
- Not having money penniless
Unobeyed
- Not obeyed disobeyed
Unprayed
- Not addressed in prayer
- Not sought unsolicited, uninvited
Unsprayed
- Not sprayed
Unstayed
- Not secured or supported by stays
Unswayed
- Not moved or affected not influenced
Volleyed
- The flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground
- A return of the ball before it touches the ground
- A kick of the ball in soccer before it rebounds
- The exchange of the shuttlecock in badminton following the serve
- A flight of missiles (such as arrows)
Walleyed
- Having walleyes or affected with walleye
- Marked by a wild irrational staring of the eyes
- Having walleyes or affected with walleye
Wayed
- Having such a way or such or so many ways
Willeyed
- Willow
- To process (as cotton) with a willey willow