10-letter words containing y, n
- wygiwyntyh — What You Get Is What You Never Thought You Had
- wyomingite — a state in the NW United States. 97,914 sq. mi. (253,595 sq. km). Capital: Cheyenne. Abbreviation: WY (for use with zip code), Wyo., Wy.
- xenocrysts — Plural form of xenocryst.
- xenoglossy — Knowledge of a language one has never learned.
- xenography — The process of surgically transplanting organs or tissue between different species.
- xylanthrax — (archaic) Wood coal or charcoal, distinguished from mineral coal; lignite.
- xylogenous — living in or on wood
- xylophagan — an insect in the Xylophaga or Xylophagi that eats wood
- xylophones — Plural form of xylophone.
- xylophonic — Of or pertaining to a xylophone.
- yan xishan — Yen Hsi-shan.
- yankeeland — Chiefly Southern U.S. the northern states of the U.S.
- yarkant he — a river in NW China, flowing NE and joining the Aksu River to form the Tarim River. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- year-round — continuing, active, operating, etc., throughout the year: a year-round vacation spot.
- yearningly — deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
- yeastiness — The state or condition of being yeasty.
- yellowfins — Plural form of yellowfin.
- yellowness — The state or quality of being yellow.
- yenakiyevo — a city in E Ukraine: suburb of Donetsk.
- yes and no — You say yes and no in reply to a question when you cannot give a definite answer, because in some ways the answer is yes and in other ways the answer is no.
- yesmanship — An atmosphere in which people claim to agree with leadership for political reasons, even when they don't actually agree with leadership.
- yestereven — Lb archaic yesterday evening.
- yestermorn — (obsolete) Yesterday morning.
- yesternoon — yesterday noon.
- yieldingly — In a yielding way.
- yoga pants — pants made of a stretchable knit fabric, worn as exercise or casual wear: slim-fitting yoga pants with a flared leg.
- yoke front — oxbow front.
- yorubaland — a former kingdom in W Africa, in the E part of the Slave Coast: now a region in SW Nigeria.
- young lady — a young, usually unmarried woman of refinement, grace, etc.
- young plan — a plan reducing the reparations provided by the Dawes plan, devised by an international committee headed by Owen D. Young and put into effect in 1929.
- young turk — a member of a Turkish reformist and nationalist party that was founded in the latter part of the 19th century and was the dominant political party in Turkey in the period 1908–18.
- young-eyed — clear-eyed; bright-eyed.
- youngberry — a blackberry that is a cultivated variety of Rubus ursinus of the southwestern U.S.
- youngblood — youthful, vigorous, and fresh in ideas or practices: an aging company badly in need of youngblood management.
- younglings — Plural form of youngling.
- youngsters — Plural form of youngster.
- youngstown — a city in NE Ohio.
- youthening — to make youthful; to restore youth to (someone or something).
- ythundered — struck by a thunderbolt
- yukon gold — a variety of yellow-fleshed potato developed in Canada
- yukon time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- yuppifying — Present participle of yuppify.
- zephyrinus — Saint, pope a.d. 198?–217.
- zoanthropy — a mental disorder in which one believes oneself to be an animal.
- zygobranch — a creature belonging to the Zygobranchia genus, which includes molluscs with paired gills
- zygopteran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Zygoptera, comprising the damselflies.
- zygosphene — a linking part of the vertebrae of snakes and lizards which fits into a zygantrum
- zynet ltd. — (company) A UK Internet service provider offering full Internet Protocol connection by any reasonable means for any number of computers from individual dial-ups to leased line connections to entire networks. Zynet is a sister company of Minerva Software and thus claim a better than average understanding of the needs and idiosyncracies of Acorn systems and will be offering special services for education. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +44 (1392) 426 160. Fax: +44 (1392) 421 762. Address: Minerva House, Baring Crescent, Exeter EX1 1TL, UK.