| yogurt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghourt, yoghurt |
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| yokai | (noun) Any of various supernatural monsters, sometimes shapeshifters, in Japanese folklore | - |
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| yoke | (noun) stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team | - |
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| (noun) fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment | - |
| (noun) a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together | Synonyms: coupling |
| (noun) support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end | - |
| (noun) a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke | - |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome |
| (noun) an oppressive power | - |
| yokel | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo |
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| yolk | (noun) nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) | Synonyms: vitellus |
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| (noun) the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen | Synonyms: egg yolk |
| yore | (noun) time long past | - |
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| yottabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabits or 10^24 bits | Synonyms: Yb, Ybit |
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| yottabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes | Synonyms: YB, YiB, yobibyte |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabytes or 10^24 bytes | Synonyms: YB |
| yottaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one septillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: YFLOPS |
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| young | (noun) any immature animal | Synonyms: offspring |
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| (noun) young people collectively | Synonyms: youth |
| youngness | (noun) the opposite of oldness | - |
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| youngster | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke |
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| younker | (noun) a young person (especially a young man or boy) | Synonyms: spring chicken, young person, youth |
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| youth | (noun) the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person | Synonyms: juvenility, youthfulness |
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| (noun) young people collectively | Synonyms: young |
| (noun) a young person (especially a young man or boy) | Synonyms: spring chicken, young person, younker |
| (noun) early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced | - |
| (noun) the time of life between childhood and maturity | - |
| (noun) an early period of development | Synonyms: early days |
| youthfulness | (noun) the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person | Synonyms: juvenility, youth |
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| yowl | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring |
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| yr | (noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | Synonyms: twelvemonth, year |
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| ytterbite | (noun) a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium | Synonyms: gadolinite |
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| ytterbium | (noun) a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime | Synonyms: atomic number 70, Yb |
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| yttrium | (noun) a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys | Synonyms: atomic number 39, Y |
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| yuan | (noun) the basic unit of money in China | Synonyms: kwai |
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| yucca | (noun) any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America | - |
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| yuga | (noun) the name of an epoch or era within a four age cycle in Hindu philosophy. | - |
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| yuppie | (noun) a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style | - |
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| yurt | (noun) a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing | - |
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| yus | (noun) a Common Slavonic nasal vowel in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. | - |
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