6-letter words containing y, e, s
- xylose — A sugar of the pentose class that occurs widely in plants, especially as a component of hemicelluloses.
- xyster — A surgical instrument used to scrape bones.
- yearns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yearn.
- yeasts — Plural form of yeast.
- yeasty — of, containing, or resembling yeast.
- yelets — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Moscow.
- yentas — Plural form of yenta.
- yerbas — Plural form of yerba.
- yerkes — Charles Tyson, 1837–1905, U.S. financier and mass-transit magnate.
- yesses — (used to express affirmation or assent or to mark the addition of something emphasizing and amplifying a previous statement): Do you want that? Yes, I do.
- yessir — Used to express assent.
- yester — of or relating to yesterday.
- yields — Produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product).
- yodels — Plural form of yodel.
- yokels — Plural form of yokel.
- yonsei — The fourth generation or great-grandchildren of Japanese immigrants, particularly in North America and in Latin America.
- yseult — German Ysolde [ee-zawl-duh] /iˈzɔl də/ (Show IPA). Iseult.
- zygose — the union of two gametes; conjugation.
- zymase — the complex of enzymes obtained from yeast, also occurring in bacteria and other organisms, that acts in alcoholic fermentation and other forms of glycolysis.
- zymose — (obsolete, enzyme) invertin.