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13-letter words containing y, i, n

  • wolffian body — the mesonephros.
  • wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
  • woolly indris — a related nocturnal Madagascan animal, Avahi laniger, with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail
  • woolly-minded — showing a vague or muddled way of thinking
  • working party — A working party is a committee which is formed to investigate a particular situation or problem and to produce a report containing its opinions and suggestions.
  • yachting trip — a pleasure trip on a yacht
  • yachtsmanship — The ability or art of being adept at sailing a yacht.
  • yekaterinburg — Ekaterinburg.
  • yekaterinodar — a former name of Krasnodar.
  • yellow mombin — a tropical American tree, Spondias mombin, having yellowish-white flowers and yellow, oval, edible fruit.
  • yellow ribbon — a yellow-colored ribbon displayed as a symbol of solidarity with soldiers in combat, political hostages, etc.
  • yellowishness — The property of having a slight or moderate shade of yellow, usually tinged with other colours.
  • yesterevening — yesterday evening.
  • yestermorning — yesterday morning.
  • yieldableness — the quality of being submissive or compliant
  • yitzhak rabin — Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
  • yo-yo dieting — a repeated cycle of weight loss followed by weight gain.
  • you can't win — an expression of resignation after an unsuccessful attempt to overcome difficulties
  • young ireland — a movement or party of Irish patriots in the 1840s who split with Daniel O'Connell because they favoured a more violent policy than that which he promoted
  • young-looking — having the appearance of youth
  • your nineties — the ages between 90–99
  • yourdon, inc. — (company)   The company founded in 1974 by Edward Yourdon to provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO of the company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around the world; the company was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of CGI, the French software company that is now part of IBM. The publishing division, Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over 150 technical computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics; many of these "classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks.
  • youtube, inc. — (web, video)   An on-line video file sharing web site, founded on 2005-02-14 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Anyone can upload video clips to the site and these can then be viewed by others. In 2007, many such sites exist but YouTube is the best known. YouTube is funded by Sequoia Capital. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google Inc.. YouTube has partnership deals with content providers such as CBS, BBC, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, NBA, The Sundance Channel and many more.
  • yttrotitanite — (mineralogy) A brownish-black variety of titanite.
  • yuan shih-kai — 1859–1916, president of China 1912–16.
  • yuppification — The act or process of yuppifying.
  • zhao kuangyin — Chao K'uang-yin.
  • zygosporangia — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.
  • zymotechnical — relating to the technology of fermentation
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