| 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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| (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: descant, warble |
| 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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| yogic | (adjective) of or relating to yoga | Synonyms: yogistic |
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| yogistic | (adjective) of or relating to yoga | Synonyms: yogic |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) put a yoke on or join with a yoke | - |
| (verb) link with or as with a yoke | Synonyms: link |
| (verb) become joined or linked together | - |
| yokel | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo |
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| yokelish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: bounderish, ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred |
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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 |
| yon | (adjective) distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal) | Synonyms: yonder |
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| (adverb) at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal) | Synonyms: yonder |
| yonder | (adjective) distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal) | Synonyms: yon |
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| (adverb) at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal) | Synonyms: yon |
| 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 | (adjective) (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth | Synonyms: immature |
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| (adjective) (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity | Synonyms: new |
| (adjective) not tried or tested by experience | Synonyms: unseasoned, untested, untried |
| (adjective) being in its early stage | - |
| (adjective) suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh | Synonyms: vernal, youthful |
| (noun) any immature animal | Synonyms: offspring |
| (noun) young people collectively | Synonyms: youth |
| younger | (adjective) used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father | Synonyms: jr., Junior |
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| youngish | (adjective) somewhat young | - |
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| 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 |
| youthful | (adjective) suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh | Synonyms: vernal, young |
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| youthfully | (adverb) in a youthful manner | - |
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| 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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| (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: caterwaul |
| (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, wrawl, yammer |
| 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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| yucky | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked |
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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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| yummy | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome |
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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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