English Words: Y

2,763 words · Page 7 of 56

Yambemname

A Meitei surname from Manipuri

yamboonoun

Obsolete form of yuanbao

yamennoun

A residence of an official of the Chinese Empire.

Yamhadianadj

Of or relating to Yamhad

Yamhill Countyname

One of 36 counties in Oregon, United States. County seat: McMinnville.

Yaminame

A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Tao people.

Yamilethname

A female given name from Spanish.

Yaminname

A surname from Arabic.

Yaminjeongeumname

The humorous form of the Korean orthography where hangul syllables are distorted by replacing them with visually similar counterparts.

YAMLname

A human-readable data serialization format that takes concepts from XML and from various programming languages.

yamlessadj

Without a yam or yams.

yamlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a yam.

yammanoun

Obsolete spelling of llama.

yammerverb

To complain peevishly.

yammerernoun

One who complains or whines peevishly or whimperingly.

yammeringnoun

Loud, incoherent, repetitive speech.

Yammynoun

A product manufactured by Yamaha Corporation, such as a piano, guitar or motorcycle.

Yamnayaname

A late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers (the Pontic steppe), dating to 3300–2600 BCE, often associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

YAMOnoun

An intermicronational organisation that is useless, unnecessary or deficient in some aspect; used to insult, or convey disapproval of, an intermicronational organisation.

yamogeninnoun

A sapogenin found in fenugreek and yams.

Yamoussoukroname

the official and administrative capital of Ivory Coast.

yampnoun

An umbelliferous plant, Perideridia gairdneri, native to California, whose tubers were used as food by Native Americans.

Yampaname

A town in Routt County, Colorado, United States.

Yampa Rivername

A tributary of the Green River in Routt County and Moffat County, Colorado.

yampahnoun

Any of the genus Perideridia of plants in the parsley family, native to western North America, with umbels of white flowers, especially Perideridia gairdneri, which has an edible root.

Yampilname

A city in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.

Yampolivkaname

A village in Lyman urban hromada, Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

yampynoun

A vegetable, the Indian white yam.

yamsticknoun

A rod-shaped implement used by the aboriginal people of Australia to dig yam and as a combat weapon.

yamunnoun

Alternative form of yamen.

Yamunaname

The largest tributary river of the Ganges in northern India.

yannum

One.

yan daonoun

Handsome, pretty boy.

Yan'anname

A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.

yan-a-bumfitnum

Sixteen in Cumbrian sheep counting.

yan-a-dicknum

eleven in Cumbrian sheep counting

Yananame

A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).

yanakunanoun

An individual in the Inca Empire who left the ayllu system and worked full-time at a variety of tasks for the Inca, their queen, or the religious establishment.

Yanamname

A town in Puducherry, India.

Yanannoun

Synonym of Yana (“(member of) a particular North American Indian people”).

Yanbianname

A Korean autonomous prefecture of Jilin, China.

yanceadv

once (in both senses: only one time, and formerly)

Yancey Countyname

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

Yanceyvillename

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

Yanchangname

A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.

Yanchaoname

A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Yanchengname

A district of Luohe, Henan, China.

Yanchiname

A county of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

Yandaname

A surname from Czech.

Yandangname

A town in Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.

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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 7. 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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