y | (noun) the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: wye, Y |
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yacca | (noun) West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves | Synonyms: Podocarpus coriaceus, yacca podocarp |
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yacht | (noun) an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing | Synonyms: racing yacht |
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yachting | (noun) water travel for pleasure | Synonyms: boating |
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yachtsman | (noun) a male person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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yachtsperson | (noun) a person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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yachtswoman | (noun) a female person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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yack | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yak, yakety-yak |
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yagi | (noun) a sharply directional antenna | Synonyms: Yagi aerial |
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yahoo | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yokel |
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yak | (noun) large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated | Synonyms: Bos grunniens |
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(noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yack, yakety-yak |
yakuza | (noun) organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises | - |
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(noun) a Japanese gangster | - |
yam | (noun) sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked | - |
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(noun) edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food | - |
(noun) any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots | Synonyms: yam plant |
(noun) edible tuber of any of several yams | - |
yang | (noun) the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology | - |
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yanker | (noun) someone who gives a strong sudden pull | Synonyms: jerker |
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yanquapin | (noun) water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds | Synonyms: American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, water chinquapin |
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yap | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, maw, trap |
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yard | (noun) an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) | - |
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(noun) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen | - |
(noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: curtilage, grounds |
(noun) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines | Synonyms: railway yard, railyard |
(noun) a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings) | - |
(noun) a tract of land where logs are accumulated | - |
(noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride | Synonyms: pace |
(noun) a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) | Synonyms: cubic yard |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand |
yardage | (noun) distance measured in the aggregate number of yards | - |
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yardarm | (noun) either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship | - |
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yardbird | (noun) a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks | Synonyms: yard bird |
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(noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, convict, inmate, yard bird |
yarder | (noun) a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road | Synonyms: yard donkey |
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(noun) (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in yards | - |
yardgrass | (noun) coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere | Synonyms: Eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass |
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yardie | (noun) member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence | - |
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yardman | (noun) a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns) | - |
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(noun) worker in a railway yard | - |
yardmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, trainmaster |
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yardstick | (noun) a ruler or tape that is three feet long | Synonyms: yard measure |
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(noun) a measure or standard used for comparison | - |
yarmelke | (noun) a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer) | Synonyms: yarmulka, yarmulke |
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yarmulka | (noun) a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer) | Synonyms: yarmelke, yarmulke |
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yarmulke | (noun) a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer) | Synonyms: yarmelke, yarmulka |
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yarn | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: thread |
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(noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: narration, recital |
yarrow | (noun) ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: Achillea millefolium, milfoil |
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yashmac | (noun) the face veil worn by Muslim women | Synonyms: yashmak |
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yashmak | (noun) the face veil worn by Muslim women | Synonyms: yashmac |
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yataghan | (noun) a long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge | - |
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yatobyo | (noun) a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals | Synonyms: deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularaemia, tularemia |
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yautia | (noun) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes | Synonyms: malanga, spoonflower, tannia, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium |
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yaw | (noun) an erratic deflection from an intended course | Synonyms: swerve |
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yawl | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: dandy |
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(noun) a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars) | - |
yawn | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawning |
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yawner | (noun) a person who yawns | - |
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yawning | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawn |
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yaws | (noun) an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions | Synonyms: frambesia, framboesia |
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yea | (noun) yes | - |
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year | (noun) a body of students who graduate together | Synonyms: class |
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(noun) the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun | - |
(noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | Synonyms: twelvemonth, yr |
(noun) a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity | - |
yearbook | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: annual, yearly |
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(noun) a book published annually by the graduating class of a high school or college usually containing photographs of faculty and graduating students | - |
yearling | (noun) an animal in its second year | - |
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(noun) a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth | - |
(noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: bambino, toddler, tot |
yearly | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: annual, yearbook |
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yearner | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, thirster |
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yearning | (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: hungriness, longing |
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years | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, geezerhood, old age |
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(noun) a prolonged period of time | Synonyms: age, long time |
(noun) the time during which someone's life continues | Synonyms: days |
yeast | (noun) any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division | - |
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(noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | Synonyms: barm |
yell | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, shout, vociferation |
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(noun) a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate) | Synonyms: cry |
yeller | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter |
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yelling | (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: shouting |
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yellow | (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellowness |
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yellowbird | (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: goldfinch, New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis |
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(noun) yellow-throated American wood warbler | Synonyms: Dendroica petechia, golden warbler, yellow warbler |
yellowcake | (noun) an impure mixture of uranium oxides obtained during the processing of uranium ore | Synonyms: U308 |
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yellowfin | (noun) may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics | Synonyms: Thunnus albacares, yellowfin tuna |
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yellowhammer | (noun) European bunting the male being bright yellow | Synonyms: Emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting |
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(noun) large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail | Synonyms: Colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker |
yellowlegs | (noun) either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs | - |
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yellowness | (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellow |
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yellowtail | (noun) superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail | Synonyms: Ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail snapper |
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(noun) game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin | Synonyms: Seriola dorsalis |
yellowthroat | (noun) small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat | - |
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yellowwood | (noun) any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract | Synonyms: yellowwood tree |
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(noun) the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees | - |
yelp | (noun) a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) | Synonyms: yelping, yip |
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yelping | (noun) a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) | Synonyms: yelp, yip |
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yen | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: hankering |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen | - |
yenta | (noun) (Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal | - |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant | - |
yeoman | (noun) in former times was free and cultivated his own land | - |
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(noun) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch | Synonyms: beefeater, yeoman of the guard |
yeomanry | (noun) class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land | - |
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(noun) a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army | - |
yer | (noun) Either of two letters in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages. | - |
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yes | (noun) an affirmative | - |
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yeshiva | (noun) an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud) | Synonyms: yeshivah |
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yeshivah | (noun) an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud) | Synonyms: yeshiva |
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yesterday | (noun) the recent past | - |
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(noun) the day immediately before today | - |
yesteryear | (noun) the time that has elapsed | Synonyms: past, past times |
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yeti | (noun) a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas | Synonyms: abominable snowman |
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yew | (noun) any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves | - |
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(noun) wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows | - |
yid | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew | Synonyms: hymie, kike, sheeny |
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yield | (noun) production of a certain amount | Synonyms: output |
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(noun) an amount of a product | Synonyms: fruit |
(noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings |
(noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: output, production |
yielder | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: surrenderer |
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yielding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, concession |
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(noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, surrender |
yin | (noun) the dark negative feminine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology | - |
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yip | (noun) a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) | Synonyms: yelp, yelping |
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yips | (noun) nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts) | - |
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ylem | (noun) (cosmology) the original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements | - |
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yob | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yobbo, yobo |
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yobbo | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobo |
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yobibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibits or 2^80 bits | Synonyms: Yibit |
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yobibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes | Synonyms: YB, YiB, yottabyte |
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yobo | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo |
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yodel | (noun) a songlike cry in which the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal voice and falsetto | - |
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yodeling | (noun) singing by changing back and forth between the chest voice and a falsetto | - |
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yodeller | (noun) a singer who changes register rapidly (popular in Swiss folk songs) | - |
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yodh | (noun) the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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yoga | (noun) a system of physical, breathing and meditation exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind | - |
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(noun) discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility that is achieved through the three paths of actions and knowledge and devotion | - |
yoghourt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghurt, yogurt |
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yoghurt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghourt, yogurt |
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yogi | (noun) one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight | - |
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