English Words: Y
2,763 words · Page 11 of 56
A super-alert state where the bird is hungry, but not weak, in a trance-like state of alertness and ready to hunt.
A rounded or conical tent of reindeer hide, the traditional mobile home of some nomadic indigenous peoples of Russia.
A hand, in bridge or whist, that has no card with a value greater than nine (and no aces), though in some circles it is no card above a ten.
Someone from, or living in the area of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England, stereotypically a chav.
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
A yardman who switches locomotives and rolling stock in a switchyard, or a truck driver who analogously switches tractors and semi-trailers at a truckyard or depot.
A rope that goes through a block or sheave at the top of a mast that is used for hoisting or lowering a yard; gantline.
A book of maps of a golf course, with distances indicated to specific points of interest.
A large wind-eroded mass of soft or poorly consolidated rock in a desert region which lies parallel to the prevailing winds, often with an unusual shape.
A motor-driven logging machine which transports logs by means of a system of cables and winches.
A heavy-duty tractor designed for moving shipping containers on chassis around a shipping terminal.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
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 11. 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.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "Y" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.