English Words: Y

2,763 words · Page 3 of 56

yachtynoun

A yachtsman or yachtswoman.

yacknoun

Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”).

Yackarabulname

Alternative form of Yagara.

Yackelname

A surname from German.

yackernoun

One who talks at length.

yacketverb

To chatter

yacketyadj

talkative, garrulous

yackety-yaknoun

prolonged chatter; uninterrupted, idle talk; gossip

yacksnoun

plural of yack

yaconnoun

The Peruvian ground apple, Smallanthus sonchifolius

Yacoubianname

A surname from Armenian.

Yacultanoun

Synonym of Lekwiltok.

yadnoun

A pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading.

Yad Vashemname

The official Israeli memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953.

yada yada yadaphrase

And so on; and so forth.

yadadameanintj

Do you know what I mean? Do you understand?

Yadaoname

A surname from Ilocano

Yadavnoun

A member of a grouping of traditionally non-elite, cow headers and peasant-pastoral grazing communities or castes in the Indian Subcontinent.

Yadavanoun

An ancient Indian people who believed themselves to be descended from Yadu.

yaddaintj

Used three times in a row, or in combination with other words, to indicate part of a sentence which would be annoying to include, or which is incomprehensible, or which is just unimportant.

yaddernoun

A stake used for bracing.

Yadkin Countyname

One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Yadkinville.

Yadkinvillename

A town, the county seat of Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States.

Yadongname

A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Yaekoname

A female given name from Japanese.

Yaelname

A female given name from Hebrew.

Yaesuname

A neighborhood of Chuō, Tokyo prefecture, Japan.

YAFname

Initialism of Young Americans for Freedom.

Yaffename

A surname from Hebrew.

yaffingalenoun

the European green woodpecker, Picus viridis

yafflenoun

The European green woodpecker, Picus viridis.

yafsoanitenoun

An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing calcium, oxygen, tellurium, and zinc.

Yagarname

Alternative form of Yagara.

Yagaranoun

An Indigenous Australian people who inhabited much of the area of and around what is now Brisbane.

Yagarrname

Alternative form of Yagara.

yagenoun

Ayahuasca.

yagernoun

A heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle

yaggernoun

A fishing boat used to catch herring.

Yaggeraname

Alternative form of Yagara.

Yaghnobnoun

Alternative form of Yaghnobi.

Yaghnobinoun

A member of an ethnic minority in Tajikistan, inhabiting the Sughd province in the valleys of the Yaghnob, Qul and Varzob rivers.

Yaghoubianname

A surname from Armenian.

yaginoun

Yagi-Uda antenna

Yagi-Uda antennanoun

A type of directional antenna with one driven element and one or more parasitic elements; a directional radio or TV antenna consisting of two or more dipoles in the same plane with all dipoles parallel to each other.

yagiitenoun

A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal colorless mineral containing aluminum, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.

Yagoname

A male given name from Spanish.

Yagodaname

A surname from Russian

yagonanoun

The kava plant.

yagouaroundinoun

Alternative form of jaguarundi.

Yaguchiname

A surname from Japanese.

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 3. 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.

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