English Words: Y

2,763 words · Page 10 of 56

Yanqingname

A district of Beijing, China.

yanquinoun

A citizen of the United States of America, as opposed to a Latin American.

Yanshanname

A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.

Yanshiname

A district of Luoyang, Henan, China, formerly a county-level city.

Yanshueiname

A district of Tainan, Taiwan.

Yanshuiname

Alternative form of Yanshuei.

Yantaname

A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Yantainame

A coastal prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong, China.

Yantarnename

A village, the administrative centre of Yantarne silrada, Kurman Raion, the Crimea, Ukraine.

Yantisname

A surname from German.

yantranoun

A geometrical diagram used as a meditation aid in tantric worship.

yantricadj

Relating to yantras.

Yantzname

A surname from German.

Yanukovychname

A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Януко́вич (Janukóvyč).

Yanvarskename

Former name of Sichneve: a village in Velykomykhailivka rural hromada, Synelnykove Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine; known by this name until September 2024.

Yanwathname

A small village in Yanwath and Eamont Bridge parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5127).

yanyuedaonoun

A type of Chinese pole weapon consisting of a heavy blade with a spike at the back.

Yanyulanname

A non-Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language family located just south of Arnhem Land, of which Yanyula (Yanyuwa) is the sole member.

Yanziname

A river or creek of Gansu, part of the Yangtze watershed.

Yaonoun

The Mien people of China.

Yao graphnoun

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, their shortest path has a length that is within a constant factor of their Euclidean distance.

Yao's principlename

A principle in computational complexity theory relating the performance of randomized algorithms to deterministic (non-random) algorithms.

yaochonoun

match fixing in Japan

yaodongnoun

A type of earth shelter dwelling common in the Loess Plateau in northern China.

Yaoduname

A district of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

Yaohainame

A district of Hefei, Anhui, China.

yaoinoun

A narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between two or more men.

yaoi handnoun

A large (typically disproportionate) hand of a man or boy, associated with early yaoi (Japanese homoerotic fiction) manga.

yaoi holenoun

In Japanese homoerotic fiction, a supposed male sexual organ (resembling the vulva) distinct from the penis and anus, derived from anatomical error in early illustrations.

Yaoundéname

The capital city of Cameroon.

yaourinoun

A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more non-binary people.

yaourtnoun

Obsolete form of yogurt.

Yaozhouname

A district of Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China.

yapnoun

The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.

yapaholicnoun

A person who talks excessively.

Yapanesenoun

Incomprehensible and meaningless speech; nonsense, waffle.

Yapesename

The Austronesian language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia, especially by the inhabitants of Yap.

yapfestnoun

An occasion characterized by excessive yapping.

yapoknoun

The water opossum (Chironectes minimus).

yappnoun

In bookbinding, the edge of the binding that extends beyond the edges of the pages, and may protect the gilding.

yappatronnoun

Chatterbox (someone who talks to excess).

yappedverb

simple past and past participle of yap

yappernoun

A person's mouth, especially one that gossips or talks too much.

yapper dognoun

A dog that frequently barks, especially a small dog with a high-pitched bark.

yappienoun

A young affluent parent.

yappilyadv

In a yappy manner.

yappinessnoun

The quality of being yappy.

yappingnoun

A sound that yaps, especially the continued barking of a small dog.

yappinglyadv

With yapping sounds.

yappishadj

yappy; resembling or producing yapping sounds

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The English alphabetical index for the letter Y contains 2,763 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 56 pages, and you are currently viewing page 10. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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