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Fourteen words carry Y second and A third, and not one of them is everyday English.
In DYADS, LYASE, MYALL and NYALA the Y follows a consonant and carries the vowel sound itself. That is what lets a five letter word survive with A as its only other vowel.
It also explains why the page is so thin. English rarely builds words this way outside borrowings and technical coinages, and every entry here is one or the other.
K takes four of the fourteen, which is remarkable for a letter that starts so few English words. KYACK, KYANG, KYARS and KYATS are all borrowings that kept their spelling.
A DYAD is a pair, a LYASE is a class of enzyme, a NYALA is a southern African antelope and a KYAT is the currency of Myanmar. AYAHS are nursemaids in South Asian usage.
So the page runs from chemistry to zoology to currency to domestic service. There is no thread connecting them beyond the letters themselves.
S closes six of the fourteen, more than any other letter, and most of those are plain plurals of borrowed nouns.
DYADS or LYASE, since both appear in academic writing that a setter might draw on. None of the page is a safe bet.
An Australian acacia tree with scented wood, and in older usage an Aboriginal person living traditionally. The second sense is now avoided.
A young hawk taken from the nest for falconry. It doubles the S and is the only entry here that does.
Both mean streaked with grey, in Scots, usually of hair. They differ in the last box and mean the same thing.