English Words: Y

2,763 words · Page 12 of 56

Yardleyname

A suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP124538).

yardlightnoun

A freestanding weatherproof exterior light fixture in a garden or landscaped setting.

yardlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a yard.

yardmannoun

A worker in any of several types of yard, as:

yardmasternoun

A railway employee who is in charge of a railway yard.

yardmennoun

plural of yardman

yardpersonnoun

A yardman of any gender.

yardroomnoun

Room (space) in a yard (such as a barnyard or rail yard): room (for movement, exercise, storage, etc.) supplied by a yard.

yardropenoun

Alternative form of yard-rope.

yardsnoun

plural of yard

yardsalenoun

Alternative spelling of yard sale.

yardsmannoun

The foreman or man in charge of the activities in a yard (train yard, prison yard, stock yard, etc).

yardsnapnoun

A strap equipped with snaps at the outer end of a yard for securing signal halyards.

yardsticknoun

A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.

Yardumianname

A surname from Armenian.

yardwandnoun

A yardstick.

yardworknoun

Work done in maintaining a lawn, and related landscaping activities

yareadj

Ready; prepared.

yarelyadv

In a yare way.

Yaremchename

A city in Nadvirna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.

Yaremenkoname

A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Яременко (Jaremenko)

Yarenname

A district, the largest town and de facto capital of Nauru. Nauru has no official capital but Yaren houses the government offices.

Yargnoun

A semi-hard cheese made in Cornwall with a distinctive rind made by wrapping the cheese in nettle leaves.

yarinoun

Any of various sizes of spear used in Japanese martial arts.

yari-yarinoun

A type of wood from certain species of trees from the Caribbean in the Annonaceae family.

Yariloname

The god of vegetation, fertility, and springtime in Slavic mythology.

Yarimarname

A female given name.

yarkverb

To make ready; prepare.

Yarkandname

Alternative form of Yarkant.

Yarkantname

A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

yarkenoun

The saki, Pithecia leucocephala

Yarkovsky effectnoun

A force acting on a rotating body in space caused by the anisotropic emission of thermal photons, which carry momentum.

yarlnoun

A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Yarlagaddaname

A surname from Telugu.

yarlighnoun

A khan's decree in the Mongol Empire.

Yarlung Tsangponame

The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Yarlung Zangboname

The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

yarlyknoun

Alternative form of yarligh.

yarmverb

To cry out; make a loud, unpleasant noise; shriek; yell.

Yarmoukname

A river in Jordan, Syria and Israel, the largest tributary of the Jordan River.

Yarmouthname

A placename:

Yarmouth Countyname

A county of Nova Scotia, Canada.

Yarmouthianadj

Of or relating to part of a now-obsolete geologic time scale of the early Quaternary of North America.

yarmulkenoun

A skullcap worn by religious Jewish males (especially during prayer).

yarnnoun

A twisted strand of fibre used for knitting or weaving.

yarn bombnoun

A decorative knitted yarn item, placed on a public structure as a form of graffiti or street art.

yarn bombernoun

One who yarn bombs.

yarn bombingnoun

A form of graffiti or street art which involves colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn.

yarn dustverb

To talk rubbish.

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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 12. 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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