English words: yaw damper to yeldrin

300 English words, part 4 of 12 of the words starting with Y, A to Z. 40 have a page of their own.

English words yaw damper to yeldrin

yaw damper noun: A component of the flight control system of most swept-wing aircraft which suppresses the aircraft's natural Dutch roll tendency using carefully-timed...
yaw-haw noun, verb: A loud, coarse laugh.
yaw'll pronoun: Eye dialect spelling of y'all.
yaw-weed noun: A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant with white flowers in the genus Morinda, found along the seacoast of the West Indies.
Yaw Yin noun: The Lisu people.
Yawa proper noun /ˈjɑwə/: A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Yawata proper noun: A city in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
Yawelmani adjective: Relating to a dialect of Yokuts.
yawingly adverb: With a yawing motion.
yawk interjection, verb /jɑːk/: Imitative for the sound of a shot, in particular of a gun.
yawker bird noun: The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus
yawl noun, verb /jɔːl/: A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
yawler noun: One who sails a yawl.
yawless adjective: Without yaw.
yawlsman noun: One who sails a yawl.
yawmeter noun: An instrument that measures an aircraft's yaw.
yawn noun, verb /jɔːn/: To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
yawn-sigh noun: A vocal sound of gradually descending pitch, between a yawn and a sigh, sometimes used in speech therapy.
yawnable adjective: Boring; tedious.
yawnathon noun: A very boring event or situation.
yawner noun: A person who yawns.
yawnfest noun: A particularly boring event.
yawnful adjective: boring; tedious
yawnfully adverb: In a yawnful manner; boringly.
yawnily adverb: In a yawny manner.
yawniness noun: The quality of being yawny.
yawning adjective, noun, verb /ˈjɔːnɪŋ/: The action of the verb yawn.
yawningly adverb: In a yawning way; accompanied by yawns.
yawnless adjective: Without a yawn.
yawnsome adjective: Characterised or marked by yawning; boring; dull.
yawnsville noun: Synonym of dullsville (“a boring place, or state of being bored”).
yawnups noun: A stupid person.
yawny adjective: Prone to yawning.
yawp noun, verb /jɔːp/: To yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise.
yawpan noun: Alternative form of yaupon.
yawper noun: A person who yawps; one who cries vigorously.
yawping noun, verb: loud or coarse talk
yaws noun, verb /ˈjɔːz/: A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries.
yawweed noun: The flowering plant Morinda royoc.
yawy adjective: Pertaining to, or afflicted with, the disease yaws.
yaxche noun: ceiba tree
Yaxley proper noun: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1892).
yay adverb, interjection, noun /jeɪ/: An expression of happiness.
yay-boo adjective: Involving both celebration and disapproval.
yaya adjective, noun, verb /ˈjɑjɑ/: A nanny; female caregiver; nursemaid
yaya papaya adjective [ˈjɑ(ː˦)ˈjɑ(ː˦)pəˈpɑjɑ]: Conceited, arrogant, show-offy.
yayness interjection: yay; hooray
yayo noun /ˈjeɪ.oʊ/: cocaine
Yayoi noun: An ethnic group of the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period (300 BCE–300 CE).
yayoisaponin noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
yayue noun: A form of Chinese ritual music performed at imperial courts since the Zhou Dynasty, and usually associated with Confucianism.
yayuh interjection: yes; yeah
Yazan proper noun: A transliteration of the Arabic male given name يازن.
yazata noun: A divinity.
Yazawa proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
Yazd proper noun: A city in Iran, the seat of Yazd County's Central District and the capital of Yazd Province.
Yazdani proper noun: A surname from Persian.
Yazdegerdian adjective: Of or relating to the Sassanian kings called Yazdegerd.
yazh noun /jɑːl/: A fretless harp of ancient Tamil origin, with a variable number of gut strings, characterized by a boat-shaped resonator.
Yazhou proper noun: A district of Sanya, Hainan, China.
Yazidi adjective, noun: A member of an endogamous, largely Kurmanji-speaking ethnoreligious group which practices Yazidism and is natively concentrated mostly in Syria, Iraq, and...
yazidiat noun: tyranny, oppression
Yazidiness noun: The quality or characteristic of being Yazidi.
yazidiyat noun: Alternative form of yazidiat.
yazoo noun: A tributary that runs parallel to a river (especially when separated by a natural levee).
Yazzie proper noun: A surname from Navajo
yb symbol, verb: Abbreviation of Ybit.
YBA noun: Initialism of Young British Artist.
Ybanag noun: Alternative form of Ibanag.
Ybanak noun: Alternative form of Ibanag.
Ybarra proper noun: A surname.
YBCO noun: Initialism of yttrium barium copper oxide: component elements used in the manufacture of one type of high-temperature superconducting material.
YBG adjective: Initialism of young, black, and gifted.
Ybit symbol: Abbreviation of yottabit.
yblent adjective: Confused
ybound adjective: Bound.
ybp symbol: Initialism of years before present.
YBYSAIA phrase: Initialism of you bet your sweet ass I am: a strong affirmative response.
YC noun: prototype cargoplane (prefix)
YCH noun: Initialism of your character here, a type of art commission where the artist creates a basic sketch of a scene with the character(s) as blank template(s),...
ych a fi interjection /ˈʌx ə viː/: yuck
ycladd verb: Alternative spelling of yclad.
ycladde verb: Alternative form of yclad.
ycleped adjective, verb: Alternative spelling of yclept.
yclept adjective, verb /ɪˈklɛpt/: Called (by a certain name), named.
yclothed adjective: clothed
ycomen verb: Alternative form of comen.
yd noun: Alternative form of yd..
yday adverb: Abbreviation of yesterday.
ydg noun: Abbreviation of yardage.
ydk phrase: Initialism of you don't know.
YDKB phrase: Initialism of you don't know ball.
YDNRC phrase: Initialism of you do not recall/remember correctly.
ye article, interjection, noun, pronoun /jiː/: You (the people being addressed).
ye'elimite noun: A calcium sulphoaluminate mineral.
ye-es particle: Pronunciation spelling of yes, indicating hesitance: used to show hesitant agreement or acceptance.
ye gods interjection: Used to express surprise or incredulity.
ye gods and little fishes interjection: Alternative form of ye gods.
Ye'kwana noun: A speaker of Ye’kwana or member of a Ye’kwana-speaking tribe.
ye of little faith phrase: Alternative form of O ye of little faith.
ye olde adjective, phrase /ðiː əʊld/: Pseudo-archaic form of the old, as to suggest antiquity or old tradition.
ye're contraction: Contraction of ye are.
ye've contraction: ye have
ye wei noun: Alternative spelling of yewei.
yé-yé noun: A genre of pop music of the early 1960s in Europe.
yea adverb, conjunction, interjection, noun /jeɪ/: Yes, indeed.
yea-say verb: Alternative form of yeasay.
yea-sayer noun: Alternative form of yeasayer.
yea-saying noun, verb: The act of saying yes, expressing agreement, or showing a positive and optimistic attitude.
yeaaah interjection: Elongated form of yeah.
yead noun: head
Yeading proper noun /ˈjɛdɪŋ/: A suburban area of Greater London, England, between Hayes and Northolt, mostly in the borough of Hillingdon, partly in the borough of Ealing (OS grid ref...
Yeadon proper noun /ˈjiːdən/: A town in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2041).
Yeager proper noun: A surname.
yeaghe noun: Yacht.
Yeagley proper noun: A surname.
yeah interjection, noun, particle /jɛ(ə)/: Yes.
yeah-huh interjection: Yes; an expression of affirmation.
yeah nah interjection: A polite expression of either agreement or disagreement (clarified by following speech): can be used to denote conclusion of cursory difference(s) of...
yeah no interjection: Used sarcastically to answer "no" to a question where the negative answer should have been obvious.
yeah right interjection /jɛə̯ ɹaɪt/: Alternative form of yeah, right.
yeah way interjection: Synonym of yes way.
yeah, yeah interjection: A sarcastic expression of disbelief.
Yeakel proper noun: A surname.
yealing noun: Someone who is the same age as oneself.
yealm noun, verb: Alternative spelling of yelm.
yealmer noun: Alternative form of yelmer.
Yeaman proper noun: A surname originating as an occupation.
yean verb /jiːn/: To give birth to.
yeanling noun: The newly born offspring of a goat or sheep.
yeap adverb: Alternative spelling of yep.
year noun /jɪə/: A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
year 2000 problem noun: The millennium bug.
year 2038 problem noun: A time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
year-around adjective: Alternative form of year-round.
year bearer noun: In the tzolkin calendar, the day that begins every month of a given year, with various cultural associations.
year-bird noun: Blyth's hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus)
year-book noun: Alternative spelling of yearbook.
year dot noun: A very long time ago, from the beginning or as far back as one can remember.
year-end adjective: On or happening at the end of the year (e.g., late December).
year-group noun: Alternative form of yeargroup.
year in, year out adverb: During every year; always.
year-long adjective, adverb: Alternative spelling of yearlong.
year mark noun: An inscription on a coin indicating the year in which the coin was either produced or issued.
year mind noun: Alternative form of year's mind.
year of grace noun: Synonym of year of our Lord.
year of our Lord noun: A year of the Common Era/Christian Era; anno Domini; numbered from the once estimated first year for the birth of Jesus Christ.
year of the Lord noun: Alternative form of year of our Lord.
year-old adjective, noun /jiɹ oʊld/: Of the age of one year.
year-on-year adjective: Alternative form of year-over-year.
year out noun: gap year; sabbatical year
year-over-year adjective: Compared to the same time period in the previous year (for example, monthly inflation).
year-round adjective, adverb: Operating or continuing throughout the year.
year-round school noun: A school schedule where summer vacation is shorter and students are given breaks throughout the school year instead of a long summer vacation.
year-rounder noun: A person who lives in a place throughout the year (as opposed to a seasonal vacationer).
year's mind noun: A requiem mass or other commemoration of a dead person held one year after death or burial.
year's purchase noun: The amount yielded by the annual income of property; used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its...
year to date adjective, noun: Relating to the period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period.
year-to-year adjective: Being compared with those of a previous year; interannual.
year zero noun: a non-existing (but often assumed) year in between 1 BCE/BC and 1 CE/AD
yeara noun: Toxicodendron diversilobum, western poison oak.
yearbook noun: A reference book, published annually.
yearbooker noun: Someone who participates in some manner in the development of a yearbook.
yearbookish adjective: In the style or semblance of a yearbook, especially a high-school or college yearbook.
yearbooklike adjective: Resembling a yearbook.
yearbooky adjective: In the style or semblance of a yearbook, especially a high-school or college yearbook.
Yearby proper noun: A surname.
yeard verb: Alternative form of heard.
yearday noun: Synonym of anniversary, a day occurring in a yearly cycle.
Yeardley proper noun: A surname.
yeared adjective: Of a specified number of years.
yearend noun: The end of a year, especially a financial year.
yearer noun: A period of a certain number of years.
yearful adjective, noun: The amount that occurs in a year; a year's worth (of something).
yeargroup noun: The body of students corresponding to a particular grade level or year of study.
yearhundred noun: Century (a hundred-year timespan).
yearling noun /ˈjɜː.lɪŋ/: An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old).
yearlong adjective, adverb: Lasting one year; of a timespan of one year.
yearly adjective, adverb, noun /ˈjɪəli/: Happening once every year.
yearman noun: Someone in a particular year of e.g. study.
yearn noun, verb /jɜːn/: To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
yearner noun: someone who yearns
yearnful adjective: Filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.
yearnfully adverb: In a yearnful manner.
yearnfulness noun: The quality of being yearnful.
yearning noun, verb /ˈjɝnɪŋ/: A wistful or melancholy longing.
yearningly adverb /ˈjɜːnɪŋli/: With yearning; with desire; longingly.
yearningness noun: The quality of longing or yearning.
yearnsome adjective: Expressing, indicating, or full of yearning; yearnful; desirous.
yearny adjective: Indicating strong desire, passion, or longing; eager.
yearold noun: Alternative form of year-old.
years noun /jɪəz/: A very long time.
years-long adjective: Alternative form of yearslong.
years young noun: Years old.
Yearsley proper noun: A village and civil parish in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5874).
yearslong adjective: Lasting several or many years.
yearsman noun: Someone employed for the period of one year.
yearsworth noun: The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one year.
yeartext noun: A Bible verse especially chosen to serve as an annual theme for congregation meetings, particularly by Jehovah's Witnesses.
yearthousand noun: millennium (a thousand-year timespan)
yeartide noun: A specific time of year; season.
yeartime adjective, noun: A time of the year; a season.
yearward adverb: In the direction of the year as a whole; toward the remainder of the year.
yearwise adverb: With respect to year.
Yearwood proper noun: A surname.
Yeary proper noun: A surname.
yeasay verb: To say yes to; to agree with, or approve.
yeasayer noun /ˈjeɪˌseɪ.ə(ɹ)/: One whose attitude is positive, optimistic, confidently affirmative.
yeasaying noun, verb: Alternative form of yea-saying
yeast noun, verb /jiːst/: An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
yeast artificial chromosome noun: A genetically engineered chromosome derived from the DNA of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is then ligated into a bacterial plasmid.
yeast-bitten adjective: With the froth of the yeast having re-entered the body of the beer.
yeast bread noun: Any type of bread prepared with yeast as a leavener.
yeast cake noun: Synonym of babka
yeast dumpling noun: A type of soft, fluffy, dough ball leavened with yeast, of European cuisines.
yeast extract noun: any of various forms of processed yeast products used as food additives or flavourings.
yeast infection noun: Any infection by a fungus of the genus Candida; candidiasis
yeasted adjective, verb: Treated with yeast; fermented.
yeastful adjective: Synonym of yeasty.
yeasticidal adjective: That kills yeasts
yeastie beastie noun: A yeast infection.
yeastily adverb: In a yeasty manner.
yeastiness noun: The state or condition of being yeasty.
yeastless adjective: Without yeast.
yeastlike adjective: Resembling or having characteristics of yeast
yeastolate noun: A yeast extract used as a food for bacterial cultures
yeasty adjective /ˈjiːsti/: Having or resembling yeast.
yeasty beasty noun: Alternative form of yeastie beastie.
yeat noun: Alternative spelling of gate, obsolete except in place names.
Yeater proper noun: A surname.
Yeatman proper noun: A surname.
yeatmanite noun: A triclinic-pinacoidal clove brown mineral containing antimony, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.
Yeaton proper noun: A village in Baschurch parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ432194).
Yeatsian adjective: Of or pertaining to the Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) or his writings.
yeave-ho interjection: An exclamation used when pulling, especially by sailors while pulling on a rope.
yebo adverb: yes
Yeboah proper noun: A surname.
YEC noun: Initialism of Young Earth creationism.
yecch interjection, noun: Alternative spelling of yech.
yecchy adjective: Alternative form of yechy.
yech interjection, noun [jɛx]: An exclamation of disgust.
yechidah noun: One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, that of being one with God.
yechy adjective: Highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.
yecoraite noun: A tetragonal mineral containing bismuth, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and tellurium.
yed noun, verb: To speak; sing.
yedda noun: A type of straw used to make straw hats
yedder noun, verb /ˈjɛdɚ/: Alternative form of edder (“flexible wood used in binding hedge stakes”).
yedding noun, verb: A song, especially the song of a minstrel.
Yeddo spruce noun: Alternative form of Ezo spruce (Picea jezoensis)
yede verb: To go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
yedlinite noun: A trigonal-rhombohedral red violet mineral containing chlorine, chromium, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen.
yedoma noun: A type of permafrost in the Pleistocene-age with an ice content of 50–90% by volume.
yee interjection, pronoun /jiː/: You (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye.
yee-foo noun: Alternative form of e-fu (“kind of noodles”).
yee-fu noun: Alternative form of e-fu (“kind of noodles”).
yee ha interjection: Alternative form of yeeha.
yee-hah interjection, verb: Alternative form of yeehaw.
yee-haw interjection, verb: Alternative spelling of yeehaw.
yee sang noun: Alternative form of yusheng.
yee-yee ass adjective /ˌjiːˌjiː ˈæs/: Poor-quality; unimpressive, lame.
yeech interjection: Alternative form of yeesh.
yeees interjection: Elongated form of yes.
yeeha interjection: Alternative form of yeehaw.
yeehah interjection, verb: Alternative form of yeehaw.
yeehaw adjective, interjection, verb /ˌjiːˈhɔː/: An expression of joy or excitement, commonly associated with cowboys.
yeek interjection: eek; the sound of a mouse.
yeelaman noun: Alternative form of yelaman.
yeelin noun: Alternative form of yealing.
yeen noun /ˈjiːn/: A hyena, often in reference to an anthropomorphic depiction of one.
yeep interjection, noun /jiːp/: An expression of surprise or dismay
yeepsen noun: Anything that can be held in two hands; a double handful.
yees pronoun: you
yeesh interjection: Expressing exasperation or impatience.
yeet interjection, noun, verb /jiːt/: Expressing excitement or approval.
yeet hay noun: internal heat
yeeter noun: Someone who yeets.
Yeezy proper noun: Kanye West (born 1977), American rap musician.
yeg noun: Alternative form of yegg.
yegg noun, verb /jɛɡ/: A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
yeggman noun: A person who breaks open safes, a burglar; a yegg.
Yegor proper noun: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Егор (Jegor).
yeh interjection, pronoun [jɛ]: Alternative form of yeah; yes.
yeh yeh noun: Malay rock and roll music.
yehey interjection /ˌjeˈheɪ/: Used to express joy or elation.
yehu noun: A bowed string instrument in the huqin family.
Yehuda proper noun: A male given name from Hebrew.
Yehudi lights noun: Lights placed under aeroplanes that raise their brightness to the same level as that of the sky, as a form of camouflage.
Yehudim noun: The Jews.
Yehudit proper noun: A female given name from Hebrew.
Yei proper noun: A city in South Sudan.
yeibichai noun: A Navajo ceremony with masked dancers representing gods.
Yeji proper noun: A district of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
Yekaterinburg proper noun /ˌjɛkətərɪnˈbɜːɡ/: A city, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, the fifth-largest in the country by population.
YEKIOYD phrase: An answer that is not guessable or able to be figured out or intuited from the question.
Yekkish adjective: Relating to the Yekkes
yel adjective, contraction, noun: Abbreviation of yellow.
yelaman noun: An Aboriginal shield of wood or bark.
yelamber noun: A yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella).
yeld adjective: barren, not pregnant, not giving milk
yeldrin noun: The yellowhammer.

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.