English Words: Y

2,763 words · Page 40 of 56

Yorktonname

A city in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Yorktownname

A town, the county seat of York County, in southeastern Virginia, United States. It was the site of the final battle of the Revolutionary War.

Yorkvillename

A neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

yornpron

Yours.

Yoroname

An era of Japan

YORP effectnoun

The effect of solar radiation on an asymmetric asteroid or other small body whereby its rate of rotation increases, potentially leading to the object's eventual disintegration.

yorselfpron

Eye dialect spelling of yourself.

Yorubanoun

A member of an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria, southern Benin, and eastern Togo and, as well as in communities elsewhere in West Africa, United States, Brazil and Cuba.

Yorubalandname

The homeland of the Yoruba people in the countries of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo in West Africa.

Yorubannoun

A member of the Yoruba people.

Yorubiannoun

A Yoruban.

Yorubicadj

Of or pertaining to the Yoruba people.

Yoruboidadj

Belonging or relating to a group of 14 related dialect/language clades, composed of the Igala and Edekiri groups. Its most widely spoken member is Yoruba.

Yosefname

A male given name from Hebrew.

yoselvespron

Yo (plural), used as the object of a verb or preposition, referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned.

Yosemitename

An area of California, home to Yosemite National Park.

yosenabenoun

A Japanese hot pot with chicken, seafood, and vegetables.

Yoshiname

A male given name from Japanese.

Yoshidaname

A surname from Japanese.

Yoshihisaname

A male given name from Japanese.

Yoshikawaname

A surname from Japanese.

Yoshikoname

A female given name from Japanese.

Yoshimitsuname

A male given name from Japanese.

yoshimuraitenoun

A triclinic-pinacoidal orange brown mineral containing barium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, strontium, sulfur, and titanium.

Yoshinoname

A surname from Japanese.

yoshiokaitenoun

A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing aluminum, calcium, oxygen, and silicon.

Yoshitaroname

A male given name from Japanese.

Yoshizakiname

A surname from Japanese.

Yoshkar-Olaname

The capital and largest city of Mari El, Russia.

Yoshkename

Jesus

yoshokunoun

A style of Western-influenced Japanese cuisine.

yosi boynoun

An ambulant male cigarette vendor.

Yosondúaname

A town in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Yosoyuxiname

A village in Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.

yotnoun

The letter Ϳϳ, an uncommon variant of Jj used in Greek linguistics.

yoteverb

To pour water on; pour in.

yotsu-zumonoun

A style of sumo centred on gripping the mawashi.

yotsugakenoun

A Japanese archery glove that covers four fingers.

yotta-prefix

In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10²⁴ (a short scale septillion or long scale quadrillion). Symbol: Y

yottabitnoun

One septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 zettabits.

yottabytenoun

One septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 zettabytes.

yottaflopnoun

10²⁴ floating-point operations per second.

yottagramnoun

An SI unit of mass equal to 10²⁴ grams. Symbol: Yg

yottahertznoun

A unit of measurement based on one septillion hertz.

yottajoulenoun

One septillion (10²⁴) joules.

yottalitrenoun

A unit of volume equivalent to 10²⁴ litres, symbol Yl.

yottameternoun

US spelling of yottametre.

yottametrenoun

An SI unit of length equal to 10²⁴ metres. Symbol: Ym

yottaparsecnoun

An astronomical unit of distance equal to 10²⁴ parsecs.

yottasecondnoun

An SI unit of time equal to 10²⁴ seconds. Symbol: Ys. (= quadrillions of years, a hypothetical time span that is meaningless except in speculative contexts such as theoretical physics, philosophy, religion, and humorous hyperbole)

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 40. 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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