| yea | (noun) yes | - |
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| (adverb) not only so, but | Synonyms: yeah |
| yeah | (adverb) not only so, but | Synonyms: yea |
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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 |
| yearlong | (adjective) lasting through a year | - |
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| yearly | (adjective) occurring or payable every year | Synonyms: annual |
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| (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: annual, yearbook |
| (adverb) without missing a year | Synonyms: annually, each year, every year |
| yearn | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, long |
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| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yen |
| (verb) have affection for; feel tenderness for | - |
| 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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| yearningly | (adverb) in a yearning manner | Synonyms: longingly |
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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 |
| yeastlike | (adjective) of or resembling or containing yeast | Synonyms: yeasty |
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| yeasty | (adjective) of or resembling or containing yeast | Synonyms: yeastlike |
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| (adjective) exuberantly creative | - |
| (adjective) marked by spirited enjoyment | Synonyms: barmy, zestful, zesty |
| 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 |
| (verb) utter or declare in a very loud voice | Synonyms: scream |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall |
| yelled | (adjective) in a vehement outcry | Synonyms: shouted |
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| 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 | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellowish |
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| (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied |
| (adjective) cowardly or treacherous | - |
| (adjective) changed to a yellowish color by age | Synonyms: yellowed |
| (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic |
| (adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: icteric, jaundiced |
| (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellowness |
| (verb) turn yellow | - |
| 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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| yellowed | (adjective) changed to a yellowish color by age | Synonyms: yellow |
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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 |
| yellowish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellow |
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| 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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| (verb) bark in a high-pitched tone | Synonyms: yap, yip |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yearn |
| 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 | - |
| (adverb) on the day preceding today | - |
| (adverb) in the recent past; only a short time ago | - |
| yesteryear | (noun) the time that has elapsed | Synonyms: past, past times |
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| yet | (adverb) within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time | Synonyms: in time |
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| (adverb) up to the present time | - |
| (adverb) to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons | Synonyms: even, still |
| (adverb) used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | Synonyms: as yet, heretofore, hitherto, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now |
| (adverb) used after a superlative | Synonyms: so far |
| (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, withal |
| 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 | - |