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| Word | Definition |
| yabba | large Jamaican earthenware or wooden vessel |
| yabby | small edible freshwater crayfish |
| yachty | relating to yachts |
| yad | rod used by readers of the Torah as a pointer for following text |
| yaff | to bark like a snarling dog |
| yaffingale | green woodpecker |
| yag | synthetic diamond made of yttrium aluminum garnet |
| yager | nineteenth-century rifle |
| yahrzeit | Jewish remembrance of the first anniversary of someone's death |
| yair | tidal enclosure for catching fish |
| yajna | Hindu sacrificial rite |
| yakhdan | box used for carrying ice on back of pack animal |
| yakow | animal crossbred from male yak and domestic cow |
| yale | mythical animal resembling tusked horse with elephant's tail and used in heraldry |
| yam | posting-house along a road |
| yang-chin | Chinese hammered dulcimer |
| yantra | geometrical diagram designed as a meditation aid |
| yapness | hunger |
| yapok | an amphibious opossum of South America |
| yapp | limp leather binding in which cover overlaps edges of book |
| yarak | of a hawk, in good condition for hunting |
| yarborough | hand of cards containing no card above nine |
| yardage | charge for use of a yard |
| yardang | ridge formed by wind erosion parallel to prevailing winds |
| yardarm | either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship |
| yarder | donkey-engine used in logging |
| yardland | unit of land area equal to 30 acres |
| yare | marked by quickness and agility; nimble; prepared; easily handled |
| yarling | wailing; howling |
| yarmulke | skullcap worn by Orthodox Jewish men |
| yarnwindle | tool for winding yarn into a ball |
| yarpha | peatbog; sandy or fibrous peat |
| yarrow | flowering herb growing in moist areas; milfoil |
| yashiki | residence of a feudal Japanese nobleman |
| yashmak | double Muslim veil leaving only eyes uncovered |
| yataghan | long curved knife or sabre |
| yate | species of eucalyptus tree with strong wood |
| yautia | root crop of the West Indies like a yam |
| yaw | to move unsteadily side to side; to rotate about a vertical axis |
| yawl | ship's small boat; sailboat carrying mainsail and one or more jibs |
| yawny | prone to yawning; characterized by yawning |
| yealing | person of the same age |
| yean | to give birth to a lamb or kid |
| yeanling | lamb; kid |
| yearling | animal or plant one year old |
| yeasty | full of restless energy or creativity; insubstantial |
| yedda | grass used to make straw hats |
| yede | to go |
| yeep | to cheep; to chirp |
| yegg | a burglar of safes |
| yelek | outer garment worn by Turkish women |
| yellow | to bellow; to yelp |
| yellowback | cheap sensational novel |
| yellowplush | a footman |
| yelm | a straight bundle of straw used for thatching |
| yelt | a young sow |
| yelting | glass-eyed snapper |
| yen | craving or yearning |
| yenta | gossip or busybody |
| yeo | stream or drain used in mining |
| yeomanette | old term for a female yeoman in the American naval reserve |
| yeowoman | female yeoman |
| yerk | to draw tight; to bind |
| yestertempest | immediately preceding the last tempest |
| yetling | cast iron; an object of cast iron |
| yeuk | to itch |
| yew | to rise, as a layer of froth in a boiling liquid |
| yewen | made of yew-wood |
| yex | to hiccup, belch or spit |
| yieldless | unyielding |
| yike | imitation of the woodpecker's cry |
| yikker | to utter sharp little cries |
| yill | to ply with ale |
| yips | nervous state in golf causing player to miss an easy putt |
| yird | to bury |
| ylem | in alchemy, substance from which the elements developed |
| ylid | compound bonding negatively charged carbon to a positively charged atom |
| yobbery | hooliganism |
| yodization | insertion of a 'y' sound after a consonant |
| yogh | letter in Middle English representing y or 'hh' sound |
| yogibogeybox | materials used by a spiritualist |
| yogic | of or pertaining to yoga |
| yogini | female yogi |
| yoicks | expression of surprise or excitement |
| yok | pejorative Jewish term for a non-Jew |
| yolk | greasy substance emitted by sheep's skin to moisten the wool |
| yomp | to carry heavy equipment over difficult terrain |
| yon | yonder; that over there; those over there |
| yonderly | mentally or emotionally distant; absent-minded |
| yoni | symbol representing female genitals |
| yonside | on the farther side of |
| yordim | emigrants who leave Israel |
| york | strap used to tie trouser legs beneath the knee |
| yote | to cast in metal |
| young | to present the younger side of a geological formation |
| youngberry | dewberry similar to a loganberry |
| youngstock | young domestic animals |
| younker | a young person |
| youster | to fester |
| youthquake | the series of cultural upheavals of the 1960s |
| yowie | a little ewe |
| yowndrift | snow driven by the wind |
| yperite | mustard gas |
| ypsiliform | shaped like an upsilon |
| yrneh | unit of reciprocal inductance |
| yttriferous | bearing yttrium |
| yu | precious jade |
| yuan | flat perforated Chinese jade disk |
| yucca | woody North American plant |
| yuft | Russian leather |
| yuke | to itch |
| yulo | Chinese sculling oar |
| yusho | skin-staining disease caused by contaminated rice oil |
| yuzbashi | Turkish military officer |
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