English words: yakless to Yapanese

300 English words, part 2 of 12 of the words starting with Y, A to Z. 24 have a page of their own.

English words yakless to Yapanese

yakless adjective: Without a yak or yaks.
yaklike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a yak.
yakman noun: A man in charge of a yak.
yaknow contraction: Contraction of you + know.
Yakona noun: Alternative form of Yaquina (“Native American people”).
Yakonan adjective, noun: Of or relating to the Yakona people.
yakow noun: An animal that is a hybrid of yak and cow (domestic cattle).
yaksha noun: A kind of supernatural being; can be a malevolent demon or a beneficent tutelary deity.
yakshi noun: A female yaksha.
yakshini noun: A female yaksha.
yakskin noun: The pelt or hide of a yak; leather made from yak hides.
Yakthung noun: Synonym of Limbu.
yaku noun /ˈjɑː.kuː/: A condition that scores points when met, usually in the form of a specific combination of tiles or cards.
Yakubian adjective: Of or pertaining to Yakub.
Yakushima proper noun: One of the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Yakut noun /jəˈkuːt/: One of a Siberian people who speak a Turkic language, and live in the Lena river basin.
Yakut knife noun: Synonym of Yakutian knife.
Yakutat proper noun: A borough of Alaska, United States.
Yakutia proper noun /jəˈkuːtɪə/: A republic and federal subject of eastern Russia. Official name: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Capital and largest city: Yakutsk.
Yakutian adjective, noun: Of or relating to the Yakut people of Siberia.
Yakutian horse noun: A horse breed that originated in Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
Yakutian knife noun: A traditional multipurpose knife made by the Yakuts of Siberia.
Yakutian Laika noun: An ancient working dog breed that originated in the Arctic seashore of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
Yakutsk proper noun /jæˈkʊt͡sk/: The capital city of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia
yakuza noun /ˈjækuːzə/: A Japanese organized crime gang.
Yala proper noun: A province of Thailand.
yald adjective: Alternative form of yauld.
Yalda proper noun: An Iranian festival celebrated on the longest and darkest night of the year (December 20 or 21), when friends and family gather to eat fruits and recite poetry.
Yaldabaoth proper noun /ˌjɑːldəˈbeɪɒθ/: The Demiurge or 'False God'. Created when Sophia (one of the lesser aeons) tried to emanate without her counterpart (Christ).
Yalding proper noun: A village and civil parish in Maidstone borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7050).
yaldrin noun: Alternative form of yeldrin
yaldring noun: Alternative form of yeldrin
yale noun: A mythical beast in European mythology and heraldry, usually portrayed as an antelope- or goatlike four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel...
Yale blue noun: A dark azure color.
Yaleman noun: A man who attends or graduated from Yale University
Yalensian noun: A student or alumnus of Yale University.
yali noun: A type of house, particularly found on the Bosporus.
Yalie noun: A student at Yale University; a Yale University graduate.
yalkaparidontid noun: Any extinct marsupial of the family †Yalkaparidontidae
yall contraction: Alternative spelling of y'all.
yalla adjective: Alternative form of yaller.
yallah interjection: c'mon, come on, let's go
yallahball noun /ˈjɑː.lɑː.bɔːl/: A tactical style or brand of play characterized by extreme pace, chaos, high urgency, and direct vertical attacking, with little emphasis on patience or...
yallar adjective: Pronunciation spelling of yellow.
yallar dog noun: Pronunciation spelling of yellow dog.
yaller adjective /ˈjælɚ/: Pronunciation spelling of yellow, representing Southern US English.
yaller dog noun: Pronunciation spelling of yellow dog (“a worthless item”).
yallo interjection: A variant of hello, often associated with accents in the southern United States.
Yallop proper noun: A surname.
Yallourn proper noun: A locality in the City of Latrobe, central eastern Victoria, Australia.
yallow adjective: Alternative form of yaller.
yalman noun: The double-edged end third of the kilij Turkish saber.
Yalova proper noun: A province in northwestern Turkey, on the Sea of Marmara.
Yalta proper noun /ˈjɑːl.tə/: A city and raion of Crimea, Ukraine.
Yalu proper noun: A river on the China-North Korea border.
yam noun, verb /jæm/: Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
yam bean noun: A tropical vine, Pachyrhizus erosus, grown for its crisp, starchy edible root, the jicama.
yam cake noun /ˈjæm keɪk/: Taro cake.
yam daisy noun: Synonym of murnong.
yam stick noun: Alternative form of yamstick.
yam yam noun: A person who speaks the Black Country dialect.
Yama proper noun: The Hindu lord of death, who rides a buffalo.
yamabushi noun: A Japanese ascetic hermit who dwells on a mountain.
yamacha noun: Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
Yamacraw noun: A member of a Native American band that emerged in the early 18th century, occupying parts of what became Georgia.
Yamada proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
yamadou noun: An oil obtained from Virola sebifera.
Yamaduta noun: An officer of Yamaloka whose duty is to bring a dead person before Lord Yama for trial.
Yamagami proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
yamagane noun: unrefined copper
Yamagata proper noun: A city in Japan.
Yamagishi proper noun: A surname from Japanese
Yamaguchi proper noun /jɑməˈɡut͡ʃi/: A city in Japan.
Yamaha noun: A product manufactured by Yamaha, particularly a motorcycle.
Yamahog noun: A large motorcycle of the Yamaha brand.
yamaimo noun: Dioscorea japonica, an edible Japanese yam.
yamaka noun: Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
Yamakawa proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Yamal proper noun: A large peninsula in northern Russia.
yamalka noun: Alternative form of yarmulke.
yamalke noun: Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
yamamai noun: Antheraea yamamai, the Japanese oak silkmoth.
yamamomo noun: yangmei
Yamamoto proper noun: A surname from Japanese, one of the 10 most common in Japan.
Yamamura proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Yamanaka proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Yamanashi proper noun: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Kōfu.
yamanba noun: A mountain hag in Japanese folklore.
Yamane proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Yamasaki proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Yamasee noun: A member of a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River...
Yamashiro proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Yamashita proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
yamaskite noun: A form of pyroxenite.
yamaskitic adjective: Of or relating to the mineral yamaskite.
Yamassee noun: Alternative form of Yamasee.
Yamato noun /jɑˈmɑtoʊ/: A member of the Yamato court which formerly ruled Japan.
Yamato-e noun: A classical Japanese style of painting, characterized by many small figures, detailed depictions of buildings and other objects, an oblique view from above...
Yamatologist noun: Synonym of Japanologist (“one who studies Japan, its language, culture and history”).
Yamauchi proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Yamazaki proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Yamba proper noun: A Grassfields language of the northwest region of southern Cameroon, with a small number of speakers in Eastern Nigeria.
yambean noun: Alternative form of yam bean.
yamberry noun: Any of a collection of small, pea-sized edible bulbils that form on the vines of Chinese yam Dioscorea polystachya.
Yambol proper noun: A town in southeastern Bulgaria.
Yamel noun: A member of a northern subgroup of the Kalapuya people.
yamelka noun: Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
yamelke noun: Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
yamen noun /ˈjɑːmən/: A residence of an official of the Chinese Empire.
Yamhadian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Yamhad
Yamhill noun: Alternative form of Yamel.
Yami proper noun: A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Tao people.
yami kawaii noun: An aesthetic combining cute imagery with depictions of physical and mental illness.
yamikawa noun: Alternative form of yami kawaii
yamikawaii noun: Alternative form of yami kawaii
yamilke noun: Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
Yamin proper noun: A surname from Arabic.
Yamini proper noun: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
YAML proper noun /ˈjæməl/: A human-readable data serialization format that takes concepts from XML and from various programming languages.
yamless adjective: Without a yam or yams.
yamlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a yam.
yammer noun, verb /ˈjæm.ə/: To complain peevishly.
yammer on verb: To talk continuously, especially with no-one paying attention.
yammerer noun: One who complains or whines peevishly or whimperingly.
yammering noun, verb: Loud, incoherent, repetitive speech.
yammy adjective, noun: A product manufactured by Yamaha Corporation, such as a piano, guitar or motorcycle.
Yamnaya adjective, noun /ˈjæmnaɪə/: The people of the Yamnaya culture.
yamogenin noun: A sapogenin found in fenugreek and yams.
Yamoussoukro proper noun /ˌjæmuˈsuːkɹəʊ/: the official and administrative capital of Ivory Coast.
yamp noun: An umbelliferous plant, Perideridia gairdneri, native to California, whose tubers were used as food by Native Americans.
yampa noun: Alternative form of yampah.
yampah noun /ˈjæmpə/: Any of the genus Perideridia of plants in the parsley family, native to western North America, with umbels of white flowers, especially Perideridia...
yampe noun: A reddish vegetable, a form of yam with a vine that twists from left to right, the opposite of the ordinary yam vine.
yampee noun: A variety of yam, Dioscorea trifida, smaller than a regular yam.
yampi noun: Synonym of name (yam)
yampie noun: Alternative form of yampee.
yampy adjective, noun /ˈjæmpi/: A vegetable, the Indian white yam.
yamshik noun: Alternative form of yamstchik.
yamstchik noun: In 19th-century Russia, someone who delivered post by means of a horse-drawn carriage.
yamstick noun: A rod-shaped implement used by the aboriginal people of Australia to dig yam and as a combat weapon.
yamuka noun: Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
yamulka noun: Alternative form of yarmulke.
yamulke noun: Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
yamun noun: Alternative form of yamen.
Yamuna proper noun /jə.mʊˈnaː/: The largest tributary river of the Ganges in northern India.
yan determiner, number /jæn/: One.
yan-a-bumfit number: Sixteen in Cumbrian sheep counting.
yan-a-dick number: eleven in Cumbrian sheep counting
Yan'an proper noun: A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
yan dao adjective, noun [ˌjɛn˨ ˈt˭aʊ˨˦]: Handsome, pretty boy.
yana noun /ˈjɑː.nə/: A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
yanacona noun: Alternative form of yanakuna.
yanakuna noun: An individual in the Inca Empire who left the ayllu system and worked full-time at a variety of tasks for the Inca, their queen, or the religious establishment.
Yanan adjective, noun: Synonym of Yana (“(member of) a particular North American Indian people”).
Yanbian proper noun: A Korean autonomous prefecture of Jilin, China.
YANBU phrase: Initialism of you are not being unreasonable.
yance adverb: once (in both senses: only one time, and formerly)
Yancey proper noun: A surname.
Yanceyville proper noun: A town, the county seat of Caswell County, North Carolina, United States.
Yancheng proper noun: A district of Luohe, Henan, China.
Yanco proper noun: A locality in the Leeton council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
yancopin noun: Alternative form of yoncopin.
Yancy proper noun: A surname.
Yanda proper noun: A surname from Czech.
Yandell proper noun: A surname.
yander adverb: Pronunciation spelling of yonder.
yandere noun /ˈjɑːndɛɹeɪ/: A character, usually a girl, who has an obsessive and possessive side regarding their crush, ready to use violent (if not murderous) means to maintain an...
Yandex verb /ˈjan.dɛks/: To search for (something) on the Internet using the Yandex search engine.
Yandle proper noun: A surname.
yandy noun, verb: To separate (grain or pieces of mineral) by shaking in a special shallow dish
Yanez proper noun: A surname from Spanish.
yang noun, verb /ˈjæŋ/: A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world.
Yang-Baxter equation noun: A consistency equation first introduced in the field of statistical mechanics, based on the idea that, in some scattering situations, particles may preserve...
Yang Chow fried rice noun: Alternative form of Yangzhou fried rice.
Yang-Mills theory noun: A gauge theory that seeks to describe the behaviour of elementary particles using certain Lie groups. It is important in the unification of the...
Yang Shao noun: Alternative form of Yangshao.
Yanga proper noun: A locality in the Murray River council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
yangambin noun: The lignan (3S,3aR,6S,6aR)-3,6-bis(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)-1,3,3a,4,6,6a-hexahydrofuro[3,4-c]furan
yangban noun /ˈjaŋban/: A member of the ruling class of male Confucian intellectuals in Korea at and before the time of the Korean Empire.
Yangcheng proper noun: A county of Jincheng, Shanxi, China.
Yanggang proper noun /ˈjɑŋ.ɡɑŋ/: Synonym of Ryanggang.
yangge noun: A Chinese folk dance performed in a circle, often in colorful costume with a red silk ribbon around the waist.
yanggona noun: Alternative spelling of yagona.
Yangihissar gecko noun: A gecko of species Tenuidactylus elongatus.
yangire noun: A type of yandere, lacking romantic motivation for their violence.
yangite noun: A chain-silicate mineral with the formula PbMnSi₃O₈•H₂O.
yangko noun: Alternative form of yangge (“Chinese folk dance”).
yangmei noun: The edible crimson fruit of the subtropical tree Myrica rubra.
Yangmingism noun: A major philosophical school of Neo-Confucianism, based on the ideas of Wang Shouren (Yangming Zi).
Yangmingist adjective, noun: Relating to Yangmingism.
yangochiropteran noun: Any microbat of the suborders Yangochiroptera or Vespertilioniformes
Yangon proper noun /jɑŋˈɡɑn/: The largest city and former capital of Myanmar; formerly, Rangoon (19th–21st c.), Dagon (16th–18th c.), and Dagoon (rare).
yangona noun: Alternative spelling of yagona.
yangonin noun: A particular kavalactone.
yangpan noun: Alternative spelling of yangban.
yangqin noun: A Chinese musical instrument, a hammered dulcimer traditionally fitted with bronze strings.
Yangshao noun: The members of a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China from around 5000 BC to 3000 BC.
Yangshuo proper noun: A county of Guilin, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
yangtao noun: Synonym of kiwifruit.
Yangtse proper noun: Alternative form of Yangtze.
Yangtze proper noun /ˈjæŋtsi/: The chief river of central China and the third longest river in the world, flowing a total of 6300 km.
Yangtze dolphin noun: A baiji.
Yangtze giant softshell turtle noun: a very large and critically endangered softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), native to eastern and southern China and northern Vietnam, with a known...
Yangtze River dolphin noun: The baiji.
Yangtzean adjective: Of or pertaining to the Yangtze river.
Yangzhou proper noun /jæŋˈd͡ʒoʊ/: A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.
Yangzhou fried rice noun: Synonym of special fried rice.
Yangzi proper noun /ˈjæŋ.zi/: A town in Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
Yanik proper noun: A surname from Turkish.
Yanina proper noun: A transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name Яні́на (Janína)
Yanito noun: Alternative form of Llanito.
Yanji proper noun /jænˈd͡ʒiː/: A county-level city of Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
Yanjing proper noun: An ancient city located within present-day Beijing, the capital of Ji and Yan.
yank noun, verb /ˈjæŋk/: A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
yank around verb: Synonym of jerk around (“to cheat or treat unfairly”).
yank off verb: To remove something, like a piece of cloth or bread, by tearing it with one quick strong pull.
yank someone's chain verb: To tease someone; to lead someone on; to goad someone into overreacting.
Yank tank noun: A large American car.
Yankalilla proper noun: A town on the Fleurieu Peninsula, south of Adelaide, South Australia.
yankapin noun: Alternative form of yoncopin.
Yanke proper noun: A surname.
yankee noun, verb /ˈjæŋ.ki/: A native or inhabitant of the northern United States.
Yankee bean noun: Synonym of navy bean
Yankee cheese noun: An early form of cheese made by New Englanders, resembling cheddar.
Yankee cheese-box noun: The USS Monitor, USS Montauk and similar American Civil War-era ironclad ships.
Yankee dime noun: A kiss.
Yankee Doodle noun: A native or inhabitant of British America or, later, the United States.
Yankee ingenuity noun: Improvisational design or problem-solving, dealing with low availability of replacement parts and materials.
Yankee screwdriver noun: A spiral ratcheting screwdriver.
Yankee swap noun: Synonym of white elephant exchange.
Yankee tunesmith noun: One of a group of self-taught composers active in New England from 1770 until about 1810.
Yankeedom noun: The region inhabited by Yankees.
Yankeefication noun: Alternative form of Yankification.
Yankeefy verb: To make Yankee.
Yankeeism noun: An American word, phrase or custom; an Americanism.
Yankeeization noun: The process of Yankeeizing.
Yankeeize verb: To make Yankee.
Yankeeness noun: The quality of being Yankee.
Yankeese noun: The American dialect of English.
yankeeweed noun: The herbaceous perennial plant Eupatorium compositifolium.
Yankelovich proper noun: A surname from Russian.
yanker noun /ˈjæ̞ŋkə/: Someone who yanks, or gives a sudden hard pull
Yankification noun: The process of something being made American.
yankify verb: To render (someone or something) American.
yankism noun: A word or phrase originating from or specific to American English.
Yanko proper noun: A surname.
Yankophile adjective, noun: A non-American who loves or admires the United States.
Yankophilic adjective: Fond of or admiring the United States or American culture.
Yankovic proper noun /ˈjaŋkəvɪt͡ʃ/: Frank John “Frankie” Yankovic (1915–1998, son of Andrej Jankovič), American accordion player and polka musician
Yankovich proper noun: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Yankspeak noun: The English language as spoken by Americans.
Yankton noun: A member of a western branch of the Dakota people.
Yanktonai noun: A member of a western branch of the Dakota people.
Yankuntjatjarra noun: Alternative spelling of Yankunytjatjara.
Yankunytjatjara adjective, noun: An Aboriginal Australian people of the state of South Australia.
Yanni proper noun: A surname.
Yannick proper noun: A male given name from French.
yannigan noun: A rookie.
yanno interjection /jəˈnoʊ/: Pronunciation spelling of you know, representing US English.
yannow interjection: Pronunciation spelling of you know.
Yanny proper noun: A unisex given name.
yano noun: Synonym of shabono (“communal hut built by the Yanomamo people”).
yanolite noun: axinite
Yanomaman adjective: Of or relating to the Yanomami.
yanomamite noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, indium, and oxygen.
Yanomamo noun: A member of an Indian people of Venezuela and Brazil.
yanonin noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
yanornithiform noun: Any ornithuromorph dinosaur of the group Yanornithiformes.
Yanqing proper noun /ˌjɑːnˈt͡ʃɪŋ/: A district of Beijing, China.
Yanshan proper noun: A county of Wenshan prefecture, Yunnan, China.
Yant proper noun: A surname.
Yantai proper noun: A coastal prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong, China.
Yantis proper noun: A surname from German.
yantra noun /jəntɹə/: A geometrical diagram used as a meditation aid in tantric worship.
yantric adjective: Relating to yantras.
Yanukovych proper noun: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Януко́вич (Janukóvyč).
Yanuwa noun: Alternative form of Yanyuwa.
yanways adverb: Synonym of yonder
yanyuedao noun: A type of Chinese pole weapon consisting of a heavy blade with a spike at the back.
Yanyula noun: Alternative form of Yanyuwa.
Yanyuwa noun: An Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. who live in the coastal region inclusive of and opposite to the Sir Edward Pellew Group of...
Yao noun: A Bantu people living in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania in Africa.
Yao graph noun: A kind of geometric spanner, a weighted undirected graph connecting a set of geometric points with the property that, for every pair of points in the graph,...
yaocho noun: match fixing in Japan
yaodong noun /jaʊˈdʊŋ/: A type of earth shelter dwelling common in the Loess Plateau in northern China.
yaoi noun /ˈjaʊ̯.i/: A narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between two or more men.
yaoi hand noun /ˈjaʊ.i ˌhænd/: A large (typically disproportionate) hand of a man or boy, associated with early yaoi (Japanese homoerotic fiction) manga.
yaoi hole noun /ˈjaʊ.i ˌhoʊl/: In Japanese homoerotic fiction, a supposed male sexual organ (resembling the vulva) distinct from the penis and anus, derived from anatomical error in early...
yaoicest noun /ˈjaʊ̯.iː.sɛst/: Yaoi involving incest.
yaoiful adjective: Relative of or showing similarities to yaoi.
yaoifully adverb: In a yaoiful way or manner.
yaoigem noun: Uncommonly good gay (male/male) erotic or romantic content.
Yaoundé proper noun /jɑːˈʊndeɪ/: The capital city of Cameroon.
yaouri noun: A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more non-binary people.
yaouriful adjective: showing similarities to yaouri.
yaourigem noun: Uncommonly good enbian or heterosexual erotic or romantic content.
yap noun, verb /jæp/: The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
Yapa noun: A member of the Warlpiri people of Australia.
yapan noun: Alternative form of yaupon.
Yapanese noun: Incomprehensible and meaningless speech; nonsense, waffle.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under Y: 3,488 words, in 12 parts.