English Words: Y

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yesternadj

Of or pertaining to yesterday.

yesternightadv

Last night.

yesternoonnoun

Yesterday at noon.

yesterseasonnoun

A past or prior season, last season; an earlier or previous period of time.

yestersoladv

On the sol (Martian day) before the present one.

yestertechnoun

Retro-style automotive technology; modern cars, motorbikes, etc. designed to appear old-fashioned.

yestertidenoun

A time period previous to the present; the past.

yestertimenoun

Time previous to the present; the past.

yesterweekadv

On the week preceding the current week.

yesteryearnoun

Past years; time gone by; yore.

yestreennoun

The night before; last night.

yeswomannoun

A female yes man.

yetadv

Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.

yet'scontraction

Contraction of yet + has.

yetinoun

An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

yetilikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a yeti.

Yetinsynnoun

A yeti-human hybrid as identified by Stanisław Szukalski.

yetlingnoun

Cast iron.

yettnoun

Gate.

yetzernoun

A desire or impulse.

yetzer haranoun

The human inclination toward evil.

yeuchintj

Alternative spelling of yech.

yeughintj

An exclamation of disgust; yeuch, yech, yuck, ew.

yeuknoun

itch, a prickly feeling

yeukyadj

itchy

Yeunname

A surname from Korean.

Yeungname

A surname from Cantonese.

Yeungkongname

Synonym of Yangjiang: the Cantonese-derived name

Yevanicname

The nearly extinct language of the Romaniote Jews of Greece.

Yevgenyname

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Евге́ний (Jevgénij).

Yevhenname

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Євге́н (Jevhén).

Yevlakhname

A town in Azerbaijan.

Yevpatorianame

A resort city and raion in Crimea, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but de facto in Russia. It is located on the Black Sea coast.

yewnoun

A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.

yewberrynoun

The berry of the yew tree.

yeweinoun

game

yewenadj

Made from the wood of the yew tree.

yewienoun

Alternative form of uey.

yewlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a yew tree or its wood.

Yewtreename

Operation Yewtree

yewynoun

Alternative form of uey.

yewzhadj

Alternative form of uzhe; Clipping of usual.

yexverb

To hiccup.

yexedverb

simple past and past participle of yex

yexesverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of yex

yexingverb

present participle and gerund of yex

Yeyikname

A township in Niya, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

yeyonoun

Alternative spelling of yayo.

Yeyskname

A town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia

Yezhovname

A surname from Russian; especially when referring to Nikolai Yezhov, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architects of the Great Purge.

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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 28. 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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