English Words: Y
2,763 words · Page 22 of 56
A telephone directory that lists commercial organizations, organized by type of organization.
A disease affecting several varieties of grasses, including bentgrasses, annual bluegrass, some perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass, which results in the development of yellow or brown rings.
The alleged threat to Western nations by East Asians, especially Chinese or Japanese people, due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.
Newspapers which publish sensationalist articles rather than well researched and sober journalism.
The chief river of the North China Plain, the second-longest river in China and sixth-longest river system on Earth, historically prone to massive floods which repeatedly drastically changed its course; it passes through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions.
A Chinese tea produced in a similar manner to green tea but with the added steps of encasing and steaming the tea leaves, resulting in slower oxidisation and a mellower taste
A trade union that is dominated or influenced by an employer and thus not properly independent.
A member of a French protest movement which started in late 2018 against rising fuel prices and advocates for economic justice and institutional political reforms.
A large yellow-colored songbird found on the American continent, Icteria virens
Chloris spinoides, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, native to the Himalayas and Southeast Asia.
Pyrota insulata, a species of black and orange blister beetle found in the United States and Mexico.
A black and white striped mosquito (Aedes aegypti) originated in Africa and now widespread in the tropics, so called for being the main vector of the virus in urban areas.
Any New World sparrow of the species Atlapetes luteoviridis, endemic to a thin stretch of inland Panama.
A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.
A style of theatrical makeup in which a white actor yellows their face in order to portray an East Asian.
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 22. 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.