English Words: Y

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yarn onverb

To continue telling stories for a long time; to yammer without interruption.

yarncraftnoun

The making of decorative items from yarn.

yarndienoun

Marijuana.

yarnennoun

An economic scheme in agriculture in which farmers make repayments after their harvest.

yarnernoun

One who tells yarns or stories.

yarnlessadj

Without yarn.

yarnlikeadj

Resembling yarn; coarse, ropelike.

yarnmakernoun

A manufacturer of yarn.

yarnovernoun

A technique in which the yarn is passed over the right-hand needle. In general, the new loop is knitted on the next row, either by itself (producing a hole) or together with an adjacent stitch.

yarnspinnernoun

A storyteller; one who spins a yarn.

yarnspinningnoun

The telling of stories.

yarnstormverb

Synonym of yarn bomb (“to cover a public structure with decorative knitted yarn, as a form of graffiti or street art”).

yarnstormernoun

One who yarnstorms; a yarn bomber.

yarnstormingnoun

Synonym of yarn bombing (“a form of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn”).

Yarntonname

A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4712).

yarnwindlenoun

A device for winding yarn into a ball.

yarnyadj

Resembling yarn; coarse, ropelike.

Yaroshname

A surname.

Yaroslavname

A transliteration of the Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Яросла́в (Jarosláv).

Yaroslavaname

A transliteration of the Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian female given name Яросла́ва (Jarosláva)

yaroslavitenoun

An orthorhombic white mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, and oxygen.

Yaroslavlname

An oblast of Russia.

Yaroszname

A surname.

Yarovitname

Polabian god of war worshipped in Wolgast and Havelberg.

yarphanoun

Peat bog.

yarpienoun

A white South African man.

yarrverb

To growl or snarl like a dog.

Yarra Junctionname

A town in Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia.

yarramannoun

horse

yarrannoun

Acacia homalophylla, a species of acacia tree found commonly in Australia.

Yarravillename

A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia

yarrinoun

Synonym of Queensland tiger.

Yarriambiackname

A local government area in north-west Victoria, Australia; in full, the Shire of Yarriambiack.

Yarringtonname

A surname.

yarrishadj

Having a rough, dry taste.

yarrownoun

Any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine.

yarrowitenoun

A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing copper and sulfur.

yarrumnoun

Milk.

yarumnoun

Alternative spelling of yarrum.

Yarvinname

A surname.

yarwhelpnoun

godwit, a type of bird.

Yarwoodname

A surname.

yaryadj

Ready.

Yaryloname

Ukrainian form of Yarilo, Slavic god of vegetation and spring

Yarynaname

A female given name from Ukrainian.

yasintj

Nonstandard spelling of yes.

yas queenintj

An expression of approval, support, or encouragement.

yas'mintj

Nonstandard spelling of yes'm.

yasaknoun

An in-kind tribute in Imperial Russia exacted from the indigenous peoples of Siberia, usually in fur.

YASDnoun

The player's accidental death, caused by carelessness, in a roguelike video game.

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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 13. 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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