| 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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